Masonic Handshakes
I was under the impression that a masonic handshake was something to be done when you're being tested and nothing else. However at the Annual Communication I noticed several brethren greeting each other with a masonic handshake, and in the presence of non-masons!
Now granted the EA grip is subtle and if I didn't know it may not have noticed. When I asked a PM about it, he said this was normal and that he's even used the grip with people he thought might be masons, in a sense a 'test'.
So, what's the general convention? When would you use a masonic handshake outside of being tested for entry into a lodge where no one was available to vouch for you?
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As a young MM, I was schooled by the DoC of the Emulation Lodge of Improvement in London, that the grip shall be always covered by the brother giving the grip outside a tyled lodge, even when being tested.