On Sat, 20 Feb 2010 09:28:08 -0000, "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?

I do, but I don't see much evidence of others doing the same :-)

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Frank Erskine