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I suspect that anybody who has ever been to London would accept the idea that the biggest guarantee of spreading any disease is the underground. Restricting the number of people per carriage would be sensible. The disabled should probably get some sort of pass enabling them to use it as getting...

If you only want to cut tiny stuff, the Proxxon bandsaw might do for you. Axminster stock it but you can get it cheaper if you shop around. I've not used it but the Proxxon kit I do have is of high quality.

Yep, loads of different ways. I find myself reaching for the router as it is such a reassuring tool. It seems to be made to achieve "bang on".

Andy, with ref to your stopped rebate above: were you not tempted to finish it off with a router plane? I ask that as someone who does not have too much faith in his own chiselling and who would regard the chisel as a means to get down to near the point at which the router takes over.

But how are they on the ethical front? There's many a professional criminal who is super bright and switched on. Just think of internet con men.

I think that selling property lies outside the normal scope of the salesman. That is because the potential customers are self-selecting i.e. if they walk through your door, the largest part of your work is already done. It's then just a matter of getting their requirements from them - which they...

Which adds up to half decent manners and politeness. Hardly a great rarity and the training is what we used to call "being brought up".

Good point. How much skill do you need to be an estate agent? Client phones you up saying they want to sell their house, you advertise it, you show potential buyers around it until one decides to cough up. There's not much skill involved in that.

I think that any measures which you can sensibly take will involve covering the surfaces on which you place your tools, as has been mentioned. The similarity to each other of the little holes suggests to me that the surface had perhaps at some time been hit by an aerosol of a corrosive chemical...

What you've highlighted there is a matter of incompetent management. Somebody has analysed their work and produced a flow chart which they think allows for all eventualities. The poor stiff who you get on the phone is probably not allowed to deviate from the script on pain of death. As also...

Further to the angled groove there is the matter of the unusually shaped dovetails on the side pieces. Here's Matt Eastlea's explanation. He starts the marking up at about 6:00 mins. He's already cut the angle on the end and his explanation, while obviously right, I found to be complex...

I imagine that a firm of solicitors losing a will has committed a pretty serious breach of trust. Why not contact the body which overseas professional standards in the legal profession (would it be the Law Society)? They would surely be able to advise and maybe even provide you with the...

But Derek, it was trying to calculate the angle that nearly made my head explode (you should have seen the diagrams) and so I sensibly gave up before the men in white coats came and asked the question on here. Based on what Doug said, I did as described above. The beauty of that method is that...

Lee Valley have these stainless steel rules (metric as well if you want them) https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop/to ... kers-rules

I was going to start this by saying that it looks at though the prize goes to Doug B but he's beaten me to it with his own demo! However, should you be interested, this is what I've just done. The plane was a Veritas plough fitted with either a 3/16" or 1/4" blade. The wood was a piece of...

Thank you all very much for the replies. There are some ideas there which I will try to give a go this weekend. I started off with this idea thinking that there must be a standard technique but couldn't find anything in books or the internet. That would appear not to be the case.

I imagine that would seriously increase the amount of highly accurate planing required although it sounds doable. Have you tried that?

Thanks, that hadn't occurred to me. I imagine that an angled batten and a wide chisel would be necessary in order to achieve as precise a cut as possible so as to limit sloppiness in the joint.

Here's a problem that may require thinking caps to be put on (or maybe not for the experts amongst us). I'm working on a tea tray at the moment and thought it would look nice if the two end "walls" (for want of a better word) were angled to lean outwards. Given that I want the bottom to sit...

Ah, but it does stop you chewing at least one of your finger nails because you've finally got a use for the thing!