>  Old friends and neighbors and practically anybody you talk to, you
> are glad you did.

Sounds really good!

>  Just about nobody you didn't want to talk to either.

Heh, even better.

>  Stainless, brass, ebony.

Scott, you may have outdone even yourself.  This is one beautiful 
surgeon's
tool!  And it's a subtle beauty.  Surgeon's tools as an art form...  You 
may
have opened a whole new field.

Mike in Sacto