Far be it for me to comment being a newcomer.
But Bill & Bruce are you not being as bad as the 'Curator of the Black Hole' if you have information that needs to be shared and yet you withhold it? Life is far too short to be petty.
As an interesting aside I was born and raised and trained in the gunmaking quarter of Birmingham England UK. This area was flattened in the 1960's to make way for 'progress' and many of the gunmakers retired rather than move to high rent new workshops. It was thought that their knowledge died with them, but fortunately thanks to the skills of people like David Dryhurst, Richard Tandy, Mike Smart, Tony White etc., and the bloody mindedness of myself to dig out secrets and deflate egos, the art of fine gunmaking lives on for us all to enjoy.
A note to everyone whenever a tradesman as told me they could not divulge their secret it made me all the more determined to find out.
In every case, when I discovered the secret I found it was more BS than skill, and there wasn't anything to be secretive about.
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