[Arran]

Mike;
As I was saying, the stuff I was making was linear, so point to point was perfectly fine, and making a P.C board seemed pointless given that these were one off projects mostly made out of salvaged stuff. Many of the electronics magazines from the 80s and 90s had build projects where making the P.C board was half the project, usually something involving one I.C or another that I had no interest in. Another thing some guys used was perf board, but that isn't that cheap either.
I was thinking that PCB Way outfit might be useful if one had something like a board out of a vintage TV, or amp, where the original board was badly damaged, cracked, burned, or where the traces were falling off, apparently they can make boards out of a similar phenolic material, and drill them for you as well. I had a Sylvania AC/DC radio where a good part of the ground plain was just falling off the edge of the board, I repaired it, and then passed it on as it was from the late 1950s anyhow. There was a good reason why Brand Z swore off using P.C boards for so long, the early ones were often horrible, though they did compromise on it in their transistor radios by the 60s, not in the T.O models however.
Regards
Arran