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I think that it is ultimately down to how one is wired. We are not all equally gifted at everything. We all have our strengths and...

I don’t think lack of DIY is much to do with age. I’m 75+, restored several old houses during my life, rewired, replumbed, rebuilt etc...

Of course, another perspective is that we're nearly all a bit rubbish at diy these days. Who among us builds their own house, kills and...

To be fair, if he's earning 6 figures a year from those hands I don't expect he'd risk it

Seems to me 'our' generation sat back and watched a tiny minority completely dominate the internet and associated technologies. That...

One really only starts to take up serious D.I.Y. after purchasing a house of ones own. It was often a case of paying the mortgage and...

Greenheart survives by being a pretty noxious timber, One certainly wouldn't want a splinter of this especially not in ones rear end as...

If you can strip the paint off some of the pieces you are copying, and cut out a cardboard, or even a thin metal profile of the shape...

Never seen an example like this but it looks like it would be jolly useful when weaving under and over cane seating etc Slide it between...

My father carved out a pair of wooden soles and tacked some straps across to keep them on. Sandals? He loved to wear them when digging...

I remember going on a canal boat in the late 1960s through Wigan. On the way, we overtook a 14ft wide barge, clearly a local working...

Fifty odd years ago I got a job as an aircraft mechanic with a fire bombing company in British Columbia and every summer we went out to...

In the same breath, you could argue that the lack of forest management and burn backs etc. in the name of protecting the environment...

It might be the logical thing to do but could those involved in such a scheme be trusted to carry out their duties, without the level of...

I understand that President Lincoln was also a dab hand with an axe. :giggle: