Change of the Era

[Rob Young]

Replacement copy is scheduled to arrive on Saturday so hoping for time to re-read but probably not enough time to get all the way through.

And thanks to this now I need to spend time rearranging the bookshelf to see if I can remember other books I've loaned and not gotten back!

[Mel Fulks]

“No functional difference between hand cut and machine cut dovetails “. There is a difference in how they look. Some cabinet makers will
always use narrow tails on 18th century copies ….because they are making copies. There is no functional difference between a a child’s red
steel wagon used as a tea table and a real 18th century mahogany tea table , and yet one costs a lot more than the other. I have not seen machine cut dovetails that looked like 18th century dovetails. Even people shopping in used furniture stores will often choose to buy
a random fine “impractical “ piece over the sturdy piece they were looking for. Believe or not there are guys so fast at making hand-cut
dovetails that they will be finished with a job before another guy has read the directions for a new electric machine dove-tail cutter. I can’t
do that , but Ive seen it done.