On 17/12/2013 01:06, Roy Smith wrote:
In article <b64dd8cc-a7b5-47d2-9fe6-d2bd6e432...@googlegroups.com>,
Rick Johnson <rantingrickjohn...@gmail.com> wrote:
Dovetails are nothing more than sadistic nostalgia --
they give old men a "chubby" and young men a nightmare.
There is nothing more satisfying than cutting a set of dovetails by hand
and having them glide together like silk, the first time you test-fit
them, with no daylight visible anywhere.
Someday, mine will be like that :-)
I suspect that your manual skills are rather better than mine. One of
my favourite expressions, perhaps because I only ever heard my dad use
it, is "like watching a cow handle a shotgun".
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