On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 11:54:26 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Friday, June 2, 2017 at 2:43:43 PM UTC-4, PAS wrote:
On 6/2/2017 1:41 PM, Molten Baby wrote:
On 06/02/2017 10:15 AM, wrote:
This is a TV show that ought to interest RCMers. It's a series about
craftsmen and how they work. I happened to catch an episode on a
local PBS station the other day, about a guy who makes knives -- from
Lake Superior iron-ore sands. That's really making something from
scratch.


The Professor, on Gilligan's Island, could make anything! Couldn't fix
the boat, though.

But he had to make everything out of coconuts which, obviously, weren't
seaworthy enough to fix the boat.

They're really hard to glue into planks. g

My dad, who fought in the South Pacific, said you don't want to try to cut down a coconut palm, either.

Why not? Palm wood isn't partuicularly hard.
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Cheers,

John B.