What is It? Game 48 - Neatorama

This week's collaboration with What is it? Blog brings us this strange contraption: can you guess what it is? (No, it's not a tweezer for an extra large nose).

Place your guess in the comment section - no prize this week, so you're playing for fun and bragging rights. Please post no URL (let others play). For more clues, check out What is It? Blog.

Have fun!

Update 12/13/07 - the answer is:

all's Mineral Rod, supposedly used as a dowsing rod for finding ore, the type that you're looking for is placed in the container. Unfortunately it doesn't work for everyone, "owing to lack of magnetism in the operator"

Nbob #1 got the divining rod part right, but technically, it wasn't for water.

It's a divining rod for witching water

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Sand fuse/jacob's ladder style device that arcs electricity and will fuse the sand into glass (breaking the connection inside the glass vial within the sand) when too much current is reached.

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its for measureing spacific gravity in some kind of liquid.

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I believe it is a lighting arrestor for lighting strikes to high voltage power lines.

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It's an extra large tuning fork

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I'm throwing a wild guess that this has to do something with magnetism. ;)

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Its obviously some kind of projectile developed by Reed Richards and Tony Stark to take down the Hulk. It must be so dangerous that you have to use the tongs to handle it safely. What could possibly go wrong?

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It is a vibrational/psychic tuning thing. You give the long fork thing a whack with the short thing and the fork vibrates. Then you move it around a person, like through their aura and such. And then they are all better!

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It's a feeder for a small pet (like a gerbil or hamster). The tweezer part is a clip to attach to the top of a cage and the other part is where you put the food/water.

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a dowser

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The small part is inserted into the brain via ear or nose with a hammer, then the large part is attached.
As the fluids enter the compartment with the sand, the prongs will fibrate and indicate if the patient was telling the truth or not.
Mainly used on small children.

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I think that the smaller object is a wood and metal slide whistle (possibly from the Baroque period) and the large tweezer like object is a primitive tuning fork, possibly in the key of B sharp(tuning to a whole note higher than ours, naturally). I believe J.S.Bach used one in his Brandenburg concerto no. 7.

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it's a type of corkscrew without a screw.

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It's a fuse that needs to be placed in a difficult-to-reach location in an electronic device. The "tweezers" are to help with the fuse's placement.

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Going out on a whim here, and it might sound completely radical, but is it just a pair of tweezers and a tube of sand-like-stuff?

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Its a laying tool used in loom weaving. It is meant to operate like a long tweezers, one uses it to reverse thread/pull an end piece. Often used in blanket and rug weaving. The opposite side is used not unlike an awl.

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