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265696 Ed Minch <ruby1638@a...> 2018‑04‑09 Re: flattening Black Hard Arkansas
About 1995 we were cruising on our sailboat in the Exumas - below Nassau - and
stopped at the Bahamas National Land and Sea Park.  Amazing amazing  place with
200 pound grouper and big big crabs, and great reef snorkeling as everything is
less than about 12 feet deep.  The park office was out of commission for a
couple of years and they were putting it back together with volunteers.  There
was a blue 1960’s Stanley #4 that they were trying to use and it had a bit of
rust and would have been great for cutting that room temperature butter - the
room temperature was in the 90’s.

The whole area is limestone and they had limestone pathways.  I found a flat one
and sharped her up, then honed her on a local hardwood plank.  Worked OK for
construction.  The park office is in the row of pictures first down:

http://exumapark.org

Ed Minch

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