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some very helpful comments and advice. I'll try that link.

As to where I live, I am in the northern California foothills, about 50 miles east of Sacramento, outside a town called Grass Valley. If there are any of you ss owners/users in my area I'd surely like to meet you.

And as to the year ...

as there are bees in a hive. Well, maybe not that many, but quite a few. As that reference points out there are a number of Southeast dipterocarp species of the genus Shorea that have been called Philippine mahogany or just mahogany for a long time. They are as different in quality from the true ...

My late uncle, who was a master woodsmith, used to call anyone he considered mechanically disadvantaged a "scissorbill". He would then go on to say that a scissorbill was the kind of craftsman who would use a micrometer for a c-clamp. So that is why I chose this handle.

That aside, I just brought ...