On Sat, 03 Jun 2017 18:58:30 +0700,
wrote:

On Fri, 2 Jun 2017 18:28:20 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Friday, June 2, 2017 at 8:58:11 PM UTC-4, John B. wrote:
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.

From what he said, they were rubbery and resistant to an axe. That's what they had to cut them. Mostly they used the logs to cover their foxholes at Guadalcanal.

Interesting. I know that palm lumber has no heart or sap wood and the
wood is referred to as "fibrous" which would probably make them a bit
hard to chop down.
Royal Palm is very hard to cut and very rot resistant.