On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 19:31:57 +1100, Doug Brooke <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>Jack makers:  how many of you would - for example with a stick of soft pine
>- burnish your jacks to a slippery talc-smooth finish, and who amongst you
>would be happy just planing them to their final smoothness?
>
>doug
There's at least one out there who's fine with an un-sanded, partly burned,
sawcut surface. As opposed to burnished. Ugh, unhelpful. I'll go practice
instead.
T.