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Thanks for the replies. I'll pass the suggestions (or links to them) on. I imagine that given her build, her basic kit would consist of the smallish block plane, No 3 smoother, No 6 as her biggest plane (if she needed it) and maybe a No 5 for its usual uses. She seems to mainly be interested...

A friend of mine has expressed an interest in taking up woodwork, possibly to make boxes and the like. She came to have a look at my workshop and have a play with some hand planes. The main problem was a modern (Veritas) low angle block plane. She could use it but it was effectively a bit too...

You might find inspiration in a book of "how to" projects e.g. Classic American Furniture edited by Christopher Schwarz. The rest would be down to your imagination.

A general thought on this matter: a lot of people have quite understandably written posts containing things like, "A study shows ... etc." A lot of people right across the country latched on to Prof. Ferguson's studies which are now of course completely discredited (along with his previous...

Good point. I don't see why thinking a thread has run its course should lead anyone to ask for it to be closed down. All you have to do is stay out of it. For instance, I think it's been in the doldrums for a bit and is now mostly about the people in it as opposed to the subject matter - this...

I was baffled when two(!) copies of this appeared in my letter box. Then it became clear that it is the successor to the defunct Good Woodworking. I found it to be interesting, quirky (in the best sort of way) and promising for the future. With a bit of luck it will be successful.

I'm happy to stand corrected and be shown to be wrong. bm101: there's no resentment on my part. I'll admit to disliking what I perceive to be superficiality and having a display case built for sunglasses does seem to press that particular button. OTH I'd defend to the hilt anybody's right to...

Thanks for the replies. That seems to be a consensus: leave it natural. Incidentally, I've been planing away at the bench for the better part of four hours and have so far got the top, the two sides and the back. The oak I'm using has the most difficult grain I've ever planed. Cupped, twisted...

I think it is very tasteful but suspect the owners aren't. In any event, it's really lovely work. I hope you got many tens of thousands for it (legally relieving somebody daft enough to buy loads of sunglasses of lots of their moolah cannot possibly be an ethical issue). :mrgreen:

I've been tasked with making a nest box for a friend (presumably for use next year) and as I had a bit of oak lying around, I decided to make it out of that, what with it being fairly weather resistant and all. I read somewhere that you have to be careful about treating the wood of nest boxes...

TN, I think that your last post above confirms the instincts I've had from the start of this to the effect that we won't be able to talk sensibly about it until it is all over or until the masses of data collected have been analysed. There have been a lot of people in politics, the media and...

I think that in general terms the media have on the whole been pretty disgraceful. Having decided that Corona was the only story on the planet, they inevitably came up against a vacuum of their own creating and presumably unimaginative editors demanded space fillers from their hacks. I...

I think you're right in that people probably would flock to something like Glastonbury. OTH they would be a self-selecting group of people who don't give a toss. There might be a majority for a more selfless approach. What I think people really resent is the slightly unintelligent approach of...

I wasn't so much thinking of sports clubs but more the people who might want to go and watch sporting events. Mind you, I wouldn't be in their number as it would seem to me to be taking a wholly unnecessary risk. It's the same thing for cultural events. I feel sorry for e.g. musicians who might...

I can see the thinking behind what you propose but measures would need to be closely looked at. For instance, there might be a danger of "filing and forgetting" the elderly, voluntarily isolated. Efforts would IMO have to be made at local level for activities, day trips etc. specifically aimed...

How about this for a scenario? Lockdown ends but we maintain the use of face masks and distancing is maintained especially in restaurants, cafes etc. Subsequently wherever outbreaks start again, the smallest feasible area is subject to a renewed lockdown i.e. the disease is targeted locally...

While you are of course right in the fact that anybody using their brains to work is an intellectual by definition, I am using the word in a widely accepted but looser sense meaning those who are involved in "soft" academic matters e.g. philosophy, the arts and the study thereof, social sciences...

You quite possibly don't or don't want to but I live in hope.

I'm not bothered about what people do for a living as long as is not criminal or detrimental to others. I'm not even usually bothered if somebody does their job sub-optimally, unless it has damaging consequences for others. However, the public space which is essentially political and medial...

That hasn't stopped ill-educated clowns in the media repeatedly going off at half-**** and often without thought for the possible effects of their witterings. We can all consider ethics at leisure (something, incidentally from which I think we would all benefit, although the fewest seem to do...