My girlfriend's dad is an avid hunter and target shooter who makes his own bullets, so I have access to gunpowder and have thought about giving it a try...but I only have a few tops in my stash at this point, and none I want to turn into toothpicks
. I might pick up a student grade top from RC Tonewoods next time I put in an order with them, just to do some experiments on.I'm not trying to hijack the thread, John, but when i saw this video, I wondered about using the technique to do exactly what you described with the hot sand. Here's the link if any of you were interested http://www.stewmac.com/tsarchive/ts0201.html.