It’s amazing what you find if you go into your workshop and start sorting stuff. Construction fasteners are particularly time consuming, especially when you have a bunch of catch-all coffee cans where you’ve casually discarded stray nails, screws, staples and odd pieces of hardware.
My problem was amplified by the fact that I wasn’t the only one filling the cans. At the end of every job it always seemed there was a can or two or three where everyone had been pitching stray items. I ended up with them usually on the day I was turning the building over to the owner because nobody knew what to do with them and just left them on a countertop or in a closet or cabinet drawer.
So, there I was sorting through cans and dutifully stacking like items together thinking about how cool it was to actually know what all those things were. How many people can tell a cabinet screw from any other, and how many know a Tico nail when they see it — and can tell you its name? But, I was forced to stuff all that pride when I came across the little gem you see in the picture here. I don’t have a clue what it is. Because it seems to have been angled at the ends, I was thinking it might be some kind of whetstone. For all I know, it might not have anything to do with construction. But, I thought I’d put it out there and see if anybody had any ideas. For now, I’m just calling it — The Thing.
The dark spot on the top is just some dried up construction adhesive, or dirt. So, what is it?
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