On 17/04/2015 7:07 PM, Electric Comet wrote:
On Wed, 15 Apr 2015 12:48:25 -0600
graham wrote:

Did you cut the pins first or the tails?

the right way of course
how else would Paul Sellers do it or teach it

There's no right way, just tradition. Brits
traditionally cut tails first whereas Europeans cut pins first.
In many cases it doesn't matter but when I tried pins first on
some US red oak, it was very difficult to cut precise tails in such
a coarse-grained wood. Matching the pins to "variable" tails would have
been much, much easier.
Graham