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That's a very pertinent question although my answer might not be typical of the population at large. I can imagine doing my own risk assessment and deciding to attend an event under potential terrorist threat but I admit that that is due to my Army experience and I'm quite happy about that kind...

Thanks for the replies. I should have pointed out that I have a Festool track saw with the associated track rail (circular saw to me because the blade is circular). Normally I only use it for rough cuts e.g. cross cuts or getting the waney edge off boards. I'm fairly clueless about power tools...

As a result of having some tiles put in, the height of my bathroom floor has risen a bit. I therefore need to take about 5 mm off the bottom of the bathroom door. For this I intend to use a circular saw on a guide rail. The question I have is due to the outer surface of the door (I'm fairly...

I think the problem with that is that "rare" is a comparative term. I'm sure it can be given a statistical but nonetheless by definition arbitrary definition e.g. outside +/- two standard deviations of any given sample. There's also the problem that a relative term can have a degree of meaning...

I'm pretty sure that Dictum in Munich have them.

A month or two back I had to nail something together and found that the forged nails which I prefer were a bit too long so I did what you say: cut to length, put points back on with a file and then into predrilled holes. Now that you mention it, I wonder why I didn't remember that and the...

I should imagine that the satisfaction and sense of achievement that building a dinghy would bring will be tremendous. I've always imagined that boat building might be beyond mere mortals. Best of luck with it!

Yes I got one of those kits ages ago to make a threaded handle for a friend and I reckon the rest could come from off cuts. I might have enough cherry lying around to make a sensible go of it.

I've now got the idea that it would be a clever thing to make one of these mitre chops and it's all your fault. It should/could be possible with careful marking, even more careful paring and scrupulous checking but it certainly wouldn't be something to do in one weekend. And the ability to...

Droogs, I think that from the economy's point of view, an outbreak of rampant consumerism will be most welcome and of course the welfare of all of us ultimately depends on how the economy does. It just struck me as a bit sad from a cultural point of view. That said, I'd be fair play for a...

Nice work. Maybe you could use it to store your bench pencils and similar things which it is handy to have around. I've seen that design presented a couple of times as being a very basic kind of box but of course the requirement for exact mitres means that it is anything but that. You met the...

In more general terms, I've just been looking at pictures of masses of people queueing at places like Primark. It just seems a bit sad if blind consumerism is all people thought they had to look forward to during the lockdown. "I've got my freedom back! I know what do to: I'll go and buy some...

Then he was making his point ineptly. Telepathy is a rare quality. And if that were the point he was trying to make, he would be clearly and demostrably wrong: Toby Young's Free Speech Union is open to anybody of any political persuasion who values free speech. While I cannot claim to have read...

Then it was a poor question and it was or seemed to be an example of a typical tactic which is sadly so often employed in what passes for argument these days. If you want to make a point about Trump and his curious relationship with free speechn then make one.

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. Why come up on a thread simply to demonstrate an inability to deal with the point being made? I mean really, why do it? However, I will draw deep of my well of patience and point out the following: the right to free speech is, or should be, universal. Put very simply...

That is one of those instructive posts which says far more about the poster than the content does about its subject. I defy you to produce one single scrap of evidence which could lead to Toby Young being branded as a "troll". He's certainly a conservative both with a large and small "c" but...

The nest box project may be spiralling out of control. In accordance with the wishes of the "client" it now has a peaked roof, just like a house. (Is peaked roof the correct term?) It's turned out moderately well: 45° mitres done with a hand plane being surprisingly accurate and that despite...

The only problem with a Brooks is that being leather you have to break it in. Actually it feels like it is your rear end that gets broken in. I got around this problem by switching to a recumbent trike (HPV Scorpion). No more pains or strains of any kind and you've got to be a bit of a genius to...

In purely practical terms you could wait for night time (they should all be in the nest), put a jar over it which touches the roof, slide in a thin sheet of metal to slice it from the roof and then dispose of the lot. (Fire? Water? Chemicals?)

I showed her two handed use of it but when one hand would have been better, her middle finger couldn't reach the button knob at the front of the Veritas. Hence my question because sometimes you really do want to use them one handedly.