I thought you might enjoy a peak at my new tool and a few of my treasures. Through geocaching, hiking, and general exploring I have found myself in need of a small excavation tool for bones or small artifacts. I made this trowel as a result. It folds up with the hex tool in the handle to fit in my bag quite nicely (next to my pocket microscope and monocular.)
Not sure if you are or ever were a Doctor Who fan, but the case I made for the unit is the TARDIS.
I cleaned and mounted the raccoon skull and vertebrae myself. I'm currently working on a deer jaw and a few vertebrae.
The last picture is of my treasures. Some of it are objects from caches, others are artifacts from urban exploring or hiking. The clip on the left hand corner came from the ruins of a house from somewhere around 1929. That was the what the date stamped on the half buried sink said anyways.
My friends just call me a nerd, but I figured you might have some appreciation for this stuff :)
