Alright, I suppose I ought to add my pictures. We had a really great time...I mean what more could you want: good clif bars, and good company!
I drove Sharp to the neighborhood grocer to buy bread for our lunches, and he set to work preparing PB&J sandwiches with the proper tools....


After that, we set off! The Shelter's frame was nicely set up upon my arrival, so we set to work.


Keep in mind that we harvested only dead wood to preserve the forest around us


We chopped mostly but we brought down several 4-5 inch logs with our tiny leatherman saws, just to prove we could! We would saw around the periphery, and then rock the log back and forth till it snapped.

The triumphant leathermans!


More finishing up


Some of the finished thatching


Afterwards, there was a lot of clean knives and sharpening. The end results:

RMD: still sharp, didn't see heavy use
RTAK-II: surprisingly, it was still shaving by the end of the day. I use this blade really hard. I chopped a lot of logs with it, and collected lots of leafy plants with it. This latter process involved slicing through the stem, and then the blade would bury itself in the ground. Still it needed little in the way of sharpening.
Ranger RD7: This knife wasn't sharp to begin with, and the edge held up alright. I reprofiled it a bit, but its still no where near as sharp as the other knives. and, even with the patina, it still got a number of rust spots. 5160 is one of these steels that just WANTS to rust. Anyway, despite all this it still chopped well and served my needs just fine