GJZ, please be kinder to Mr Hughes, I am sure not all of his alcohol fueled rants have been late at night.

As for Michael, I am sure he sometimes gets an instruction to do some article on some topic upon which he is poorly informed. No one person can be well informed on everything. I remember him saying the pre-1913 LC's all had Circassian walnut. When I called him on that, he stated that the LC catalogs stated that all their wood was imported. I told him that was true, but half of it was imported from Pennsylvania. Beans even knows which farm, if he is still around this site.

I enjoy Michael's collaborations with Trevalion, as one is a good writer, and the other is a national treasure of information. I would love to see an article in SSM on how to make quality gun screwdrivers as the last hack that tried got it all embarrassingly wrong and became a laughingstock in the industry. But, maybe he wrote it late at night.