re: #277 CuriousLurker

They are handy to have for a variety of reasons, and though they vary in quality, they are all well made tools.

My favorite so far is one that I don’t recall acquiring. Not originally mine, but I don’t remember how I came to have it. It is clearly a superior model in the line, yet it has one weird flaw that I find interesting.

On the front, lower surface, where sometimes an image, emblem, or engraving might be found, a significant patch has been ground down from the typical silver surface to the copper colored under-surface.

Not only that, there is evidence of several very deep scratches on top of that grinding, perhaps made by a knife or screwdriver, as if the former owner truly hated whatever used to be there.

In my drunker moments, I often contemplate what could have been there that the previous owner held in such contempt.