Flutterby™! : Accuracy

I went to the Lie-Nielsen roadshow event last night. One one room of David Marks' shop had the Lie-Nielsen folks demoing their array of tools, the other room had a rep from Glen-Drake demoing their various tools (and our local Ron Hock had Hock Tools blades and such).

I spent a while watching the Lie Nielsen folks talk about and demo tuning planes to take off two thousandths of an inch, then wandered into the other room where the Glen-Drake guy was saying that in Albequerque his demo dovetails were falling apart, and in Minneapolis the ones that he'd left together couldn't be pulled apart, and the ones that weren't put together had no prayer of being re-joined. And here in Northern California in the rainy season, they fit fairly tightly.

While the the College of the Redwoods alumni all ooohed and aaahed over the fine shavings, I got to thinking about living in a place where we have no rain for months, and then rain for a few months...

Made me think that it's okay for the moment that my prevision comes from free-flowing cyanoacrylate and good 300+ grit sandpaper...