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I reckon that lots of small variations on a theme are possible. I tend to mark pin lines with a marking knife and for the sawing I put the nail of my left index finger (I'm right handed) in the cut line and butt the saw up against it (while remembering to keep the nail vertical). Obviously one...

Mike, thanks. All is now clear!

Mike, could you expand on your second sentence? I don't quite understand it, especially the reference to loose dovetails. PS Apologies to AndyT as there is a risk of diverting your thread here.

That's interesting. I have a steel framed fretsaw of about 3" capacity and use it for most such cuts. It is of course more or less defeated by wider boards so I bit the bullet and bought a posh Knew Concepts saw with a much bigger gape (if that's the word), while hoping that its size would not...

What do you think of this then: https://www.fine-tools.com/socket-chisel.html A chisel supplied with two handles so you can switch them when you need to whack it a bit or when you just need to give it a push. I think the idea is logical but I'm not convinced. Suppose you'd been using the...

Out of interest, how does that very long fretsaw feel in the hand? It must be OK or you wouldn't be using it but it looks like is would be terribly unbalanced.

I'm making a tea tray for a friend. It will be about 20" x 12" (~50 x 30 cm) and made of two bits of book matched elm which should end up about 3/8" - 1/2" (~9 - 12 mm) thick. I found a plan in Vol III of the The Woodworker book from LAP. The thing that I'm not sure about is the suggested idea...

Have a look at the "Hand Tool Review Links" topic under "Hand Tools" on this site. There are a lot of reviews of tools which you may and may not need. You'll also see a few book reviews there. I'd recommend The Anarchist's Tool Chest (not all would - see the row the review of it generated) as it...

I think that a lot of people will feel indebted to him for the knowledge he dispensed in The Essential Woodworker. RIP and condolences to his family.

Prog's a difficult area, isn't it? There was some good stuff but there was an awful lot of undistinguished, tedious rubbish. In that sense, it was quite like classical music and to an extent, jazz: nearly always technically highly competent but often involving music that you'd not want to give...

I suspect he was a bit of a comedian. In How Soon Is Now? The Smiths gave him music which Jim Morrison would have killed for and look at the lyrics Morrissey put to it!

He was a bit of an odd chap, wasn't he? I don't think that many people would deny that he was a virtuoso on guitar (there's a clip of him playing a blues on youtube) but his music could be difficult to take to.

If you want to understand the Stones' appeal, I would suggest listening to Let It Bleed (precondition: if you are not predisposed the blues, you might not like it) or the live album of about the same time Get Yer Ya Yas Out. As for recommendations ... which era? From the 80s I would recommend...

I think that the thing about the Stones is that while the quality of their music has always ranged from the sublime to the stunningly average - sometimes within the same album! - they've always done what they wanted and have gone their own way. That to me adds up to not selling out. I also...

I do like that clamping method. It's one that I'll bear in mind.

Or perhaps success gave them the freedom to do what they really wanted to do? It's hard to tell which is the case. It is worth remembering that there are many performers who could never be accused of having sold out. Jeff Beck, the Stones, the Who and Rory Gallagher spring to mind as do most of...

If anybody's looking for a very good and seriously different novel, I would recommend Rotherweird by Andrew Caldecott. I'm not sure that reading reviews of it is sensible because it is so original that comparisons are meaningless. (The commonest comparison is with Gormenghast, as fine an example...

I realise that it's more or less unforgiveable but no I don't. I'm afraid I can't go along with a lot of the sacred cows of popular music. I always felt that Queen and David Bowie were little more than electric music hall junk. Elton John was just overrated rubbish - how he got a knighthood I'll...

Let's not get too pedantic about semantics. :mrgreen: I thought it was generally accepted that dub being a derivative of reggae meant that it was essentially a kind of reggae. FWIW I've got no time for the nursery rhyme style music of people like Bob Marley but I do like ska and dub.

I quite like that. There's interesting music to be discovered everywhere ...