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Normal hammer slightly rounded that is, as distinct from a ball pein hammer for metal work. I use round wooden mallets for chisels. Several sizes. Hammer is too small and would wreck the chisel handles.

Just bought another Panasonic bread maker. They seem to last 3 to 4 years. Probably just about pays for itself and I know what's going into it. I use less salt than the recipes and no sugar - makes a perfectly good loaf. Favourite recipe is 3 parts wholemeal and 1 part rolled oats. No trad...

Sometimes the only thing for the job. Can be fast work for normal sized sorts of stuff, but there is a bit of technique involved. Scroll down here: https://www.ukworkshop.co.uk/threads/hand-saw-buying-advice.127121/#post-1416285 Or chap here 4 minutes in (he talks too much!). Easier to put it...

My old saws (various - Sorby, Ibbotson, S&J) seem to sharpen easily so if this means softer metal that's OK because it also means sharper saws and a pleasure to use. OTH my S&J "Spearior" seems difficult and I don't bother using it. It might as well be hard point - it certainly feels that way...

Usually you don't have to restore, it's just sharpen and go. The finish doesn't count and a sharp saw cuts faster and straighter. For a finer finish e.g for DTs you use a finer saw 15 tpi etc. I don't see the point of buying new saws at all when there are so many old ones around and so cheap. I...

Yes to the above but no to the magnifying glasses. If your sight is that bad, or saw teeth too small, then peering to see each gullet can be really tedious. Instead apply black felt tip over the tips. Then each freshly filed gullet shows up clearly and you can feel your way into alternate ones...

IMHO 30mm chipboard won't last long outside whatever you paint it with, even with a tarp. Is it worth the cost of the paint?

I agree, he didn't need it for the job in hand - but curved work with a similar simple set-up can be fine. If you get an older edition it may tell you how to use the earlier Whitehill safety blocks, which is handy. Even older and it probably mentions french cutters, which are hazardous, and...

A basic ring fence can be as simple as this: I haven't watched the vid so I can't vouch for his technique, but they are safer than you'd imagine once you've got it and hands need not be near the cutters at all, at least with bigger joinery pieces such as he shows. The "sweet spot" is on the...

I see you are confused. The point about indirect taxes is that the less well off spend a larger proportion of their income on taxed goods and services because they have no choice. Wealthy folk much less so. Much of it may be spent on savings which are not taxed - you get an unearned income...

Indirect taxes hit the less well off disproportionately. They are in effect "regressive" taxes, as compared to progressive direct taxation on personal income and wealth.

Without wealth circulation and re-distribution, there is stagnation. Some wealth here piling up, just waiting to be re-distributed: https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/12/ftse-100-chief-executive-pay-reaches-highest-level-on-record

Yes you've got it. And socialism is the basic principle. As above, some see these social policies as ongoing emergency measures remedying failures of "people" (the usual suspects, immigrants, benefit cheats, lazy n'er do wells etc ), in an otherwise ideal free-market situation. Hence only the...

er, what's that about then? I'm OK at geometry I think, but can't recall it ever being discussed. Give us a clue!

Exactly. It's called "socialism". There is no alternative. It's an essential feature of the developed world Most of so called "first world" has been getting on quite well with it so far. There are of course absolutely no examples anywhere of a successful purely "capitalist" state anywhere. In...

well in that case best to go for the benefits. Low pay and insecurity in tourist seasonal work can get you into the benefits trap whereby losing a job can lose you benefits too, due to the slow claims process. Transition to and from insecure short term work and benefits should be made easier. In...

Makes sense. If you are machining the inside curve then the outside would bear on two adjacent rollers, if opposite would bear on the two outer rollers. Maybe you'd get a touch more stability if you did remove the inner one? Done plenty of ring fence curves myself but never with the power feed...

This is total nonsense but a popular malicious right wing trope. You have completely missed the point which is that nobody chooses to be dysfunctional. I do know "dysfunctional" people but they tend to have diagnoses such as Downs syndrome, autism, adhd, etc. They don't make it up and would...

Yebbut the whole point is; is it really yours? (how did you come by it) and secondly do you have a divine right to surplus property/wealth when others are in need?