A Craftsman's Legacy

Jun 02, 2017 16 Replies
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This is a TV show that ought to interest RCMers. It's a series about crafts men and how they work. I happened to catch an episode on a local PBS statio n the other day, about a guy who makes knives -- from Lake Superior iron-or e sands. That's really making something from scratch.



Anyway, it's pretty good show; you can join the network for free and watch streaming shows online. The website is a little messy but it's worth spendi ng a little time with it. They have shows on metal casting, various kinds o f woodwork, long rifles, watch making, and so on. Check it out:



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M

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

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E

Well, that would have ended the show. So not fixing the boat was a perverse incentive -- something like a health insurance company keeping someone alive. Financially, they're better off dead, and doing so quickly.

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P

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

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E

They're really hard to glue into planks.

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

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J

Why not? Palm wood isn't partuicularly hard.

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E

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.

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G

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.

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A

Why would you want to leave, you're on a tropical island with Mary Ann!

Mikek

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C

Royal Palm is very hard to cut and very rot resistant.

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J

Probably not a lot of Royal Palms growing in the South Pacafic.

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C

Very common in West Africa and along all the slave routes in Africa

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M

Its tough to really say, because no one really knows when slave routes there began. Its like they've always been there. A few even to today.

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M

I lived in the south Pacific for years. Cocounut palm and Nut Palms are there. Most anything else was shipped in by a 'king' to make something different.

Martin

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G

It is the same in most of S.E.A, coconut palms and Nut Palms.

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It is very much the same in most of S.E.A, Coconut palms and oil palms. Cash crops, in other words.

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