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That's a very good video. The bit from 3:20 says it all.

I think you need to think about what kind of person she is. If it were me, and I had decided you were an honest person, I would want to have a frank discussion about it and then come to a decision together.

Thanks for the advice. I was very impressed by the photos he posted and it was the news that he was selling up that spurred me into action.

That looks very nice. I bought a selection of his products a short while ago when I read that he was trying to sell his business and am just about to start trials. He posted quite a lot of photos a few years back.

5. The tone is unchanged. The customer is happy because he or she believes it has been improved by this intervention.

He's still in business....offering 30% discount.

Roy Brooks was a very successful ( wealthy) London real estate agent in the 60s who was famed for his honest descriptions of what he was selling. For example “Wanted: Someone with taste, means and a stomach strong enough to buy this erstwhile house of ill-repute in Pimlico. It is untouched by the 20th century as far as conveniences for even the basic human decencies are concerned. Although it reeks of damp or worse, the plaster is coming off the walls and daylight peeps through a hole in the roof, it is still habitable judging by the bed of rags, fag ends and empty bottles in one corner. Plenty of scope for the socially aspiring to express their decorative taste and get their abode in The Glossy, and nothing to stop them putting Westminster on their notepaper. Comprises 10 rather unpleasant rooms with slimy back yard, 4,650 Freehold. Tarted up, these houses make 15,000.”

I too align my pegs for comfort. After taking the string up to pitch I estimate the change of angle needed and the proportion of the circumference of the peg this represents then try to adjust the string in the hole by that much. With care I find it only takes one or two goes to get it close enough.

My fingers aren't particularly thick but they are thick enough to make some passages difficult. I use examples like this to encourage me to find a fingering solution rather than a "topographic" one. I don't think a fraction of a mm increase in spacing at the nut would be a problem but then I don't think it would solve the sausage finger syndrome.

Aren't they hardened steel, like the disposable saws?

The Herdim 4 hole peg shaper comes with non-resharpenable blades as standard. They sell resharpenable blades separately. I gave up using mine and made a set from scrap wood and the 2" iron from an old wooden plane set close to 3 oclock so it works with a scraping action. They are quick to make and work perfectly, but you do have to take care setting up........and I don't have to make a living doing this. The great thing about using a plane iron is that it is easier to sharpen than the tiddly little blades.

That's a rather reductive view of engineering. There are indeed engineers who excel at analysis and calculation, once it is clear what they should analyse. But there is a lot more to it than and in the particular field in which I worked, for example, you would find it hard to separate the work of the engineer and the architect, in the concept as well as the detail.

I had a thickness gauge with flat tips, which was fine for guitars. When I started making violins I cut the heads off 2 small dome-headed screws and glued them on. The only snag is that it reduces the throat a bit. That means I can't measure the arch with it but I have a woodturner's caliper for rough measurements and then use a 300mm rule spaced 30mm off the bench and measure down from that.

On classical guitar you will be playing chords, or holding chord positions, all the way up the fretboard. If the strings are further apart than they need to be then some stretches will be more difficult but they must be far enough apart to avoid fouling adjacent strings. However, where the strings are plucked they need to be far enough apart to make both the main finger strokes possible, which is likely why the spacing goes from circa 44 to circa 59 for scale length 650.

Like the skills required for planing a plate joint freehand.