On 20 Feb, 09:28, "Graham." wrote:
When I was at school in the mid '60s, the woodwork teacher taught us to mark
the face side of a rectangular piece of wood with a loop in pencil, and extend
the tail of the loop down the face edge with an inverted V

Is this all terribly quaint, or do people actually still do this in practice?

--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

That's the same way as I was taught and it continues to work just fine
for me.

If it ain't broke. . . . .