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Hi everyone:
Jane found this on the beach in Thailand. It is solid, and ferrous (steel?) except for the brass grip on the end. It is also magnetized, but perhaps not intentionally. When you scrape off the black flecks, they cling to the tip.
It has striations that run the length of the shaft, and make a slight twist at the tip. At first we thought it was a kind of round file. But when I checked it with a powerful rare earth magnet, it struck it so hard that a spark flew out.
So now my guess is, it
Jane found this on the beach in Thailand. It is solid, and ferrous (steel?) except for the brass grip on the end. It is also magnetized, but perhaps not intentionally. When you scrape off the black flecks, they cling to the tip.
It has striations that run the length of the shaft, and make a slight twist at the tip. At first we thought it was a kind of round file. But when I checked it with a powerful rare earth magnet, it struck it so hard that a spark flew out.
So now my guess is, it