Why "Hot Hide Glue" is ideal for bushiings....

[John Delacour]

At 05:51 -0500 6/4/08, Leslie Bartlett wrote:

>>  I do all my work just like they did 120 years ago........
>
>Wow! impressive.  Bit and brace, hand saw, hand planes, no electric tools of
>any sort. Amazing

Who needs electric tools when there's an overhead shaft to provide 
all the motive power?  You think factories in 1890 were turning out 
thousands of pianos a year without machinery, and how do you think an 
action factory managed to produce tens of thousands of actions per 
year of a far higher quality and precision than we can dream of 
today?  People have some very odd notions about methods, speed 
quantity and quality 120 years ago.

And yes, of course animal glue is far better than any of these 
pathetic modern substitutes.  All you have to do it learn to use it, 
which seems to be beyond the wit of most people.

JD