Originally Posted by
Alice Frampton
Well goodness, you chaps do get busy while a gal is getting her beauty sleep. Arguably you're time might have been better spent asleep too, however...
Oh, George, you went and brought in the government. How could you? And the 80s. It just gets worse and worse.
Not a thing, but I have complete confidence that opinions will be unerringly formed plus or minus any data at all, so I won't worry about it. And he might be Scottish. Or Welsh. Could be a very regional habit indeed, confined to a 50 square mile area of Northumberland, but only on alternate Tuesdays. I have no particular support or antipathy towards the advice, just merely providing information.
Okay, yes, I admit I am mildly amused that there are three sources who've presumably tried it and seem to like it, while half a dozen folks who haven't tried it are absolutely adamant that it's no good. So far I'm straining to hear anyone who's tried it and said it's no good. I'm slightly less amused that a forum born out of the good manners of the old Badger Pond allows quite such personal attacks on another woodworker, but alas, internet fora are not what they were. You have the floor, gentlemen; I am done.
Cheers, Alf