Hi John Ruth:
  
Good advice, JR!  I have a jig I made about Y2k on the back of my outdoor bench
with a question (in my own handwriting) written on it: "What is this?"
  
Several years later I wrote an answer on there, "It is a donkey's ear for
chamfering the ends of 4x4s."
  
Works a treat, too. I'm just glad I didn't throw it away, because I'd've
realized what it was at the exact moment I heard the garbage truck revving off
at the end of the driveway...
             best to all galoots everywhere; gam in OlyWA/USA


Consider labeling your gages, jigs, fixtures, etc., and at least initialing them
if not actually signing them.



I have a wooden contraption with moving parts and a lever.  I THINK my father
got it from his uncle Charlie, who had been a piano maker. And, I THINK it's a
device for putting the felt on piano hammers.  I would rather KNOW...with
certainty.

The Younger you are, the more likely that you'll live long enough to forget the
function of some of your labor-saving concoctions.  Think ahead.

John Ruth
Who wishes he'd labeled more of his father's tools.