Just found this:
http://www.archifacts.co.uk/html/Sit...erations1b.htm
All the bricklaying instruction I've seen says to furrow the beds so
the bricks can be tapped down easily. I guess you shouldn't furrow to
excess. The top picture looks just like the result of using a mortar
template like bricky tool etc. Any thoughts from folks with some
bricklaying experience ?
Simon.

On 19 Aug, 21:12, sm_jamieson wrote:
Just found this:http://www.archifacts.co.uk/html/Sit...erations1b.htm
All the bricklaying instruction I've seen says to furrow the beds so
the bricks can be tapped down easily. I guess you shouldn't furrow to
excess. The top picture looks just like the result of using a mortar
template like bricky tool etc. Any thoughts from folks with some
bricklaying experience ?
Simon.

Thats rubbish advice from that site.

The brick has to be laid and adjusted in 3 dimensions. You can't do
this expediantly with a solid bed. There will be no give in the bed
joint to allow the brick to be postioned correctly.

The furrows allow both adjustment and increase suction and bond of the
brick to the mortar.

The art is to lay enough mortar so that once the brick is in position,
the bed has compacted to solid mortar, and just enough has been
squeezed out to allow for jointing the next brick

dg