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Old 05-08-20 | 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Velognome
Times have so changed...it used be done with your pops power drill and the bit you lifted from the hardware. I'll put it out there, that precisely measure and drilled holes are not in the spirit of the original.
True enough but lots of sketchy, scary, poorly, overdone examples came from that school.

Once the likes of Mr's Odom, Williams and others of their class including even our very own DD elevated the art form substantially, the widespread homebrew seemed to go by the wayside as it should have imho.
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