On Monday 16 December 2013 20:30:47 Mark Lawrence did opine: > 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".
I'll plead to using a jig, and figure I have a good fit when I have to drive it together with a deadblow hammer. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> IBM's original motto: Cogito ergo vendo; vendo ergo sum. A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list