Paul said:-
"It might just be that most people these days are not as gullible as they were in the past , prehaps they use their brain to think with vs allowing others to dictate what they have chosen for them to believe!
Just try to put a dent in a granite slab using a copper chisel , and to emphasize my point just think of how small the tip of the copper chisel would need to be to make the 90 degree corners with 2000th of an inch precision , you would never remove a single molecule of granite because the tiny tip of the chisel would bend as soon as you placed any pressure on it.
Mike Kremer said:-
Dont worry Paul about going 'out on a limb', as you mentioned in your previous letter, regarding using diamond.
Diamond does seem the most likely and only possibility thats left, as you mentioned.
The granite was cut, and dressed, in the Aswan quarry area (I believe)
and then brought by barge north down the Nile, to the Pyramid area.
Prehaps its on the Aswan area that one should look for diamond dust,
or for some sort of tools Paul. As it might make more sense to cut off as much waste granite material as possible before loading the barges?
Oh, ...I should have mentioned previously, that the work hardened (hammered) copper chisels were used on Egyptian sandstone monuments,
but I am sure you knew that.
