The part of a hammerhead opposite the flat striking surface (may have various shapes).
I do not handle tools very often.
I recently dug up a small screwdriver, which I used to pry slides out of metal wrappers trapped inside Argus and Airequipt slide magazines. Normally those slides come out easily but sometimes they do not. Rather than use my precious bare hands to force the slide out (a gesture which can cause slides to bend or become otherwise damaged, not to mention cut my hands) I found a tiny flathead screwdriver that has served little other purpose in its 15 or so years under my rule.
Are Tools such as screwdrivers under their user’s rule? Computers and other devices are sometimes called tools but I generally feel those "tools" guide and even control the jobs their marketers say they help us accomplish.
Computers and software environments frame and even caricaturize much of the work produced on them — and they deliver myriad distractions in the meantime.
One with even cursory experience in certain softwares can tell at a glance what software was used to produce a document or a web site — and this without the residual "Sent From" taglines and "Powered By" follow-ons that litter so much digital communication.
Hammers and screwdrivers, on the other hand, are more anonymously utilitarian, and their reputation or name would rarely assert itself into a finished product.
As I rarely handle tools I usually find it distracting or even nerve-wracking at first to pick one up. My hands tremble as I try to place a screwdriver into a tiny screw. Removing the back of a computer a few months ago I thought at first I would never get the screws out because I could not get the screwdriver to settle in to the first of 4 or 5 screws. I quickly got used to the environment, though, and by the 4th screw I was hoping for more. I had confidence after a rocky start. That is, in a nutshell, my relationship with tools and even with much of life. Nervous at first, my confidence increases as I build a rapport with objects and living things, but for the most part I feel owned by these things. My confidence increases not so much in myself as in my understanding of the tools’ capacities and their designs.
