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275810 John Ruth <johnrruth@h...> 2022‑06‑29 Video of Mining and Fabricating Coticule Whetstones circa 1971
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I found this interesting even though I don't speak a word of this dialect:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OEOEggYgskU

I recommend watching this even without any understanding of the narration or
captions.  Perhaps some more linguistic Galoot can inform us of the finer
points.

That mine is downright medieval !!! The US Mine Safety Administration would have
apoplexy after one glance!  You can only wonder how dark it is down there when
there is no video crew in there with their electric lights! No Personal
Protective Equipment whatsoever.

The two-man push-pull saw is interesting.  Note the worker setting the teeth
with a hammer, freehand!  What sort of a saw plate would this be? How thick?

Although Roy Underhill wrote of trying to "harvest" whetstones in the wild, have
any Porch dwellers actually found one?

John Ruth
Recalling that somebody has/had an oddly shaped stone embedded in a block of
wood.

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