John Manners wrote:
>  Never being able to find the
> pencil mark from where one seeks to re-commence the final filing after 
> an interruption.

If you're working in the "approved way", with your filing
guided by the size and position of the flats generated by the jointing
operation, no pencil mark is required.

If you can't see the flats, you probably shouldn't be filing
the saw ;-)

Would the porch be interested in an (OT) exposition
of how I took those shots?

   BugBear
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