In article ,
Grant Erwin wrote:

Recently on an extended car trip, I spent a couple of days in the home of a
couple who have owned a sailboat for many years. On their bookshelf was a
good
book on knots. I spent a couple of hours enjoyably tying knots, learned a
thing
or two.

Back home, today I had to cut some 10-SO4 cable a couple of times. This cable
is
maybe 7/8" OD, shielded by heavy black rubber, surrounding 4 10 gauge wires.
I
am not an electrician and don't own a cable cutting tool. I had up until now
done the first hack with my bolt cutters and then nipped off the cut bit by
bit
with dykes, laboriously. Today I decided to try the method the knot book
suggested to cut heavy rope: I caught my hatchet in the bench vise solidly,
edge
straight up, laid the cable over the edge, and whacked with a 1.5 lb. soft
faced
hammer. About 3 blows and the cable parted cleanly. Works great!

GWE

I bet that was the Ashley Book Of Knots.

By the way, believe it of not, there is a knot newsgroup... not a whole
lot of action there, but whenever someone asks a question, they usually
get answered pdq.

news:rec.crafts.knots

Erik