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275815 gary allan may 2022‑06‑29 Re: Video of Mining and Fabricating Coticule Whetstones circa 1971
Bill and John---
  
  Yeah, Ed was pretty proud of that stone. I think that was an amateur job,
somebody finding a nice bit of stone and mounting it, all for free.
Paleo-galootic, shall we say?
   
 I still have a number of tools Ed gifted me over the years, and I still miss
pretty much him every day.

best to all galoots everywhere, gam in OlyWA/USA

 Bill Ghio via groups.io  wrote:
 
 
 That was Ed Minch. He had both a story of finding a stone in an old quarry and
he had the rough stone in a box carved to fit its irregular shape.

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

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