John Leeke commented:
 >> doncha love those sheet rock screws.
][<en replied:
 >>>I prefer exterior grade deck screws and am bedazzled by the stainless
 >>>steel ones w/ the square hole in the head... an invention talked
 >>>about in the screw book.

Stainless is some good out on the porch, but too soft for using again 
and again like on scaffolding where I use "power screws" since sheetrock 
screws are no good for high-shear loads.

The common high-carbon sheet rock screw is the one we hate to love, so 
"boogie" yet so useful. It can make a butt joint as strong as a mortise 
& tenon. When the wife calls for shelves by next Friday sheet rock 
screws save the day. I hide them under a thin peel of pine so they don't 
show. They hold the shelf in the dado secure enough that glue up is not 
needed and I can use the time to finish the edges with my old wooden 
Hubbard c.1840 that turns the bead and flips the quirk so fine.

John
the woodworker

www.HisoricHomeWorks.com

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