Hey G’s

SIL picked up a nice panel gauge at a local thrift store for $2.  It had a cute
brass bolt to hold position of the head, with a nicely let-in piece of bent
brass sheet stock to bear on it, but it has an angled slot for wedge
professionally filled in.  So it has some history.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/47926407981/in/dateposted-public/

At one end it has a broken off pencil, but the other end is a little mystery.
It has a nicely made hole, too big for a standard pencil, with another hole
alongside too small for that pencil

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/47926402057/in/dateposted-public/

Now for the question.  If I turn the end with the 2 holes on its side, there is
an obvious part of a wood joint there.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ruby1638/47926408163/in/dateposted-public/

Any ideas what went on at this end?

Ed Minch