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I need some of those boxes - not just in it for the art and enjoyment - the practical side is really important too. I've just stacked a whole load of different sized screw boxes on my new shed shelving - it takes up a fair amount of space - it isn't organised - and it certainly isn't pretty...

Newbie input/question! Isn't the idea behind sanding sealer that it gets absorbed into and fills out any porous areas, so that when you sand the sanding sealer back to bare wood prior to applying a finish, the sanding sealer is blocking the pores, so to speak, and those ares won't absorb any...

Project "jump in at the deep end" is underway!

Yep, agree wholeheartedly and implied similar in a previous post ^ Yes, you're quite right, the threshold is £3m for a married couple to pass on. Or £1.5m for a farmer who is "single". I would put it out there that a "single" farmer would be in a very small minority. (Before anyone suggests...

Awesome. What if...... What if Japanese woodworking techniques have been handed down from a legacy of a civilisation in far pre-history? A far pre-historic civilisation that pioneered wooden satellites and developed woodworking techniques that would work in space?

Good find - thanks

You are a layman, right? Not an economist? What you've typed is nothing but your own prediction, which is in deviation from other, more expert sources. And you haven't offered any serious justification for what I can only tell is a "personal opinion". What kind of person could possibly be...

Ah yes, another trope. One man alone can achieve only one man's work. In other words (at my pay scale and with zero "wealth"), very, very little - so little in fact that any help achieved would be disproportionately negative to the one man. A country acting together can accomplish a country's...

Wow - thank you very much Kayen - really appreciate that kind offer (y)

LOL - no - the jig is a freebie that came in a set of chisels. I set it up first using a digital spirit level. That was before I noticed the small script cast into the side of it "for chisels protrusion 30mm for 30deg" and "for planes protrusion 40mm for 30deg" or some-such (from memory). So...

That was an integral part of my "testing"/"training". Worktop in shed is a pretty good hand planing base is my conclusion. Will plan out some dog holes and dogs in the near future. Cool, thanks - I've used YouTube as a learning resource and do have a camber on the micro-bevel. I'm using a...

Looks like the Star M 601 isn't available in 14mm, just my luck...

Everbuild D4 on my future shopping list. Which is a long list, eek, I'm already spent up for the year if I'm honest!

Thanks Jacob. I have done a bit of planing on edges. Only on softwood, though - mainly to test my plane set-up and sharpening. Until now it has been difficult since I didn't have a suitable fixed work space and no fixed vice or bench - everything wobbly and unstable. I will do more now that...

I don't often drink 'ale' - only occasionally do I buy 3 for £6 from local co-op, and normally IPA as a "treat" - but the Old Spec' I definitely enjoyed this weekend and had already planned to get 3 of those next time I'm in the shop (might even make a special trip...) Dunno if you also...

If that's directed at me, I think you've drawn entirely the wrong conclusion about me. You're mostly correct when you say the recent budget won't affect me very much. However, that's not OK with me. I am well paid (despite the many years public sector pay freezes and pay restraint ~15%-20%...

Hi folks I've only ever used the flat blade type for drilling larger holes into wood. Can someone educate me on whether forstner or augur or brad drill bits would be "better" than spade bits to drill the through-holes into my worktop frame to install a vice into/under my worktop. I'll be...

That's but one of the ways by which an anti-vax mindset directly affects the wider population - but there is a second directly linked consequence. When one person who could have had a vaccination decides not to - and then subsequently develops that illness - they could be hospitalised for a...

Good man - at last a bit of analysis on the interconnected facets involved. Nothing exists in isolation and there is always a bigger picture involved. I salute you for your valuable input.

I wonder if you noticed the irony? For me - any single person can change my view - because for me it is the information/data/data-backed-opinion that is important - not the person delivering that message. What you've written makes it appear that you deliberately/subconsciously select or ignore...