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Have you put me on "ignore" again? You might miss something really useful!

So - get our own house in order and look at BDS for the bad boys? Can see why the right try to deny climate change - it entails massive state spending, regulation and intrusion into how we work and live. But there is no alternative, other than letting nature take its course by stopping us in...

I never need to grind, unless it's damaged etc, and never have a hollow bevel. Quite the opposite - it tends to end up slightly rounded under, from the edge at the chosen angle (usually about the universal 30º).

Quite interesting to learn the meaning of "disingenuity" - I wasn't too sure. Are you aware that your own approach/style is quite exemplary on the subject, almost in every post? :ROFLMAO:

Ideally - it is growing (somewhere else) as fast as you burn it. I'll leave it with you I've nothing else to add.

If its normal perspex then band or table saw no problem as long as you keep it guided and firmly bedded down on the table as you cut, or it gets snatched and can break

Don't worry about it - I only do it in the privacy of my own workshop! Well since I'm retired that is. PS come to think - I used to do it out on the job too. I didn't turn up with sheets of granite, plate glass, reams of wet n dry, several stones, a collection of sharpening jigs, a Sorby pro...

A sustained forestry is carbon neutral by defintion. Whatever you do with the wood the amount of sequestered carbon stays steady. I'm not planning anything - I'm just justifying my own usage.

Modern sharpeners grind "primary bevels" relentlessly. I don't. You don't need to if you take control of the process.

Absolutely is true. Main thing is to keep things away from powered grinders - they are the blade destroyers. Not quite the same but it's a bit like sharpening a knife with a steel - just a light touch almost every time you pick it up. They last for life and need no great grinding and fettling...

just avin a laff guvnor Come to think, our OP is himself is extremely disingenuousness - one description of the meaning is "giving a false appearance of simple frankness". How about "I will point out at this stage that this is not intended as an attack on the individual who made the remark...

Think of CO2 in atmosphere like water in a lake. Burning wood is putting more water in, growing wood is taking it out. The level stays the same.

I've got a couple with Clifton stay-set cap irons. Does slightly speed things up if you do trad sharpening "a little and often" and they do fit well by being pivoted and not sprung. Trad sharpening removes least metal so they do actually stay set for some time. It's not that obvious but they...

erewego again! Another (tory?) saying that someone who disagrees with him is just biased and intolerant! Heroically "calling it out"! :ROFLMAO: and throwing toys out of his pram!

Joist hangers? Lots of shapes and sizes https://www.speedyfixings.com/builders-metalwork/joist-hangers/

Mine chases squirrels. Never caught one yet. He barks at them instead of creeping up cautiously, as a lion would. I say shush but he can't take a hint. He "bothers" them, which is only a b away from othering!! Maybe Nick is on to something? Apparently we are among a small number of mammals who...

Rubbish! No it hasn't, but you have! Do you think other species don't see differences? I can assure you that our dog is very discriminating about all sorts of things! Do you really want to talk about other species? What is your view on tortoises and how they negotiate around each other? This...

But sustained forestry has already been practiced for 100s of years, so as long as it is growing at the same rate as it is being burned it will be CO2 neutral. Interestingly - according to Oliver Rackham and others, those parts of Britain where wood was most in demand; for the early iron...

Not only that but we could be setting an example and leading on the technology rather than buying chinese.

But if there are sustainable sources growing then they are absorbing CO2 simultaneously, or even in advance. It's a continuous cycle, not emission followed by adsorption