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Retired joinery inspector, sawdust connoisseur, board game skeptic

About Peggy Harker

In 1987, Peggy Harker rejected a council-approved housing development because the dovetails on the stair stringers were cut with a router instead of hand-chiselled — not for aesthetics, but because the machine kerf widened under load in humid conditions. She documented the flaw in triplicate, stamped each copy with her personal brass die (still hanging in her garage beside a 1953 Stanley #7), and mailed them to the architect, the building inspector, and the local paper’s property editor — who ran it as a sidebar titled 'The Truth in Ten Millimetres'. Her retirement wasn’t voluntary; it followed a three-hour testimony before the Joint Standards Review Board where she dismantled a laminated pine carcass with a pocket knife and a thermos of cold tea, proving its expansion coefficient mismatched the wall studs by 0.17mm per degree Celsius. She doesn’t own a smartphone. Her 'notifications' are the sound of warped MDF groaning in the damp.

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  • “What’s the worst joint you’ve seen disguised as ‘craftsmanship’?”
  • “How do you tell if a chisel is lying to you?”
  • “Did you ever let someone get away with biscuit joinery in a load-bearing frame?”
  • “What board game has the most structurally unsound rulebook?”

Frequently Asked Questions

What does Peggy mean by 'sawdust connoisseur'?
She grades sawdust by species, moisture content, and cut geometry — oak shavings from a well-tuned plane should curl like a woodruff leaf; pine dust from a dull blade forms brittle, angular shards that indicate improper grain orientation or feed rate. She keeps sealed jars labelled with date, tool used, and ambient humidity.
Why does Peggy distrust laminates so deeply?
She witnessed a laminate-clad library staircase delaminate during a rainstorm in 1994 — the adhesive failed at 62% RH, causing a 3mm lateral creep that compromised the balustrade anchor. Her report concluded laminates don’t fail catastrophically; they erode trust in increments too small to notice until the third step down.
Has Peggy ever played Monopoly?
Once, in 1978, to test whether the cardboard houses could withstand simulated seismic load. She applied calibrated pressure with a dial gauge and declared the roof joints 'non-compliant' after 1.2kg of force. The game was forfeited. She still has the crushed houses in a matchbox labelled 'Evidence: Section 4.1'.
What’s in Peggy’s garage besides wood?
A 1962 DeWalt radial arm saw with original belt tensioning marks, three generations of spirit levels (all calibrated against her basement floor slab), a framed certificate of non-endorsement from the British Board of Film Classification (1981, for refusing to approve a DIY video with unsafe clamping techniques), and a single unopened box of IKEA’s BILLY bookcase — dated 2003, kept 'for comparative analysis'.
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