Linda wrote:

> He used a knife to "cut an impecably clean section"?  Way
cool. I never
> thought of that. I'm doing two "wheeler-style boxes" next week to "salvage"
> some information on stratum under a historic column that is going to get a
> new foundation.  (-not my usual style -   but the contractor is binding and
> lifting two columns and before he pours the new concrete foundations, we're
> going to excavate his little square holes for him and try to record what we
> can of the original builders trenches.)  So, if I'm not crushed beneath a
> collapsing brick column, I'm going to try that knife thing on the side
> walls.   (gee....I always wanted a legitimate reason to wear a really huge
> macho knife on my belt ..... and you say it impresses lazy laborers?
> there's no downside to this thing)  :-)
>

But Linda, evolution has replaced the old colonial knife (probably a
machete, after all) with a worn-to-the-nub-but-sharp-as-sin Marshalltown.
Just get yourself an attractive sharkskin holster for it...

:-}

D.