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251225 Don Schwartz <dks@t...> 2014‑10‑19 Re: Help identify this tool
On 10/19/2014 9:41 AM, JAMES THOMPSON wrote:
> It may just be me, but the words themselves seem contradictory. An object must
be one thing or another. It can't be two different objects at the same time.
Except when it means "exactly what I want it to mean."
>
> A scraper is one kind of tool, and a burnisher is another. And never the twain
shall meet.

The wording is misleading. It's a scraper burnisher ( i.e. a burnisher 
for scrapers), not a burnisher / scraper.

Don

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