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I think I'll wait for the dub reggae version.

TN, that mountain gypsy stuff or something very similar to it, can be heard throughout Balkans. I've never been able to make my mind up about it. This is the kind of gypsy stuff I can listen to: the accordion player is amazing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VzJqtuNg3I

I would imagine that a lot of people are using the current period of enforced inactivity to catch up on their reading. So I'll offer one book recommendation: The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf. It is essentially a biography and explanation of the work of Alexander von Humboldt. Having just...

I think that one of the first conclusions which could probably described as philosophical which one comes to in life is that there can be little objective discussion about why one likes or dislikes a piece of music. So I agree with you. However, that doesn't rule out having a bit of harmless fun...

I tend to agree with that. I think that e.g. cafes, jazz or light classical quietly playing in the background can be pleasant but on the whole I think that public places are best filled with the sound of human voices murmuring away in the background. (I'll change the wording of my OP because I...

In response to MikeG's pertinent point on the "not good at thread", I thought I'd start this one although it's real start is in that thread. At which point does music become unlistenable/unacceptable? Some of the best candidates are put out under the tag of "New Music". I tend to think of it...

I was utterly c**p at the high jump at school. I reckon it was a coordination thing. And my worst ever school subject was technical drawing. We only had it in the first year as it was thereafter an option. The teacher, who recognised my complete inability, gave me 20% in the first exam we had...

I once read opera being described as the "highest form of camp". I think there's something in that and it might also be traceable to the aristocracy you mention. One has only to think of the utter absurdity of Louis XIV (the Sun King is the one I mean: not sure if the XIV is correct). Your...

I do appreciate your sympathy. :mrgreen: And if I'm being terribly serious, yes I can hack the very occasional operatic melody (I found Paul Potts' (have I got his name right?) performance on that ghastly "talent" show to be quite moving) but for me there is too much tuneless, horrible...

I've got to disagree with this. Anybody can make the noise that singers make (I can even make the horrible noise that opera singers make) but the point is getting the right notes. I can only do it with what I find to be melodically very simple songs. I have similar problems with the guitar: I...

Imagining or visualising in 3D e.g. if I have a mental picture of e.g. a half-lapped dovetail and mentally rotate the piece it is part of through 180°, I have great difficulty in picturing the new arrangement. This is a lack which taking up woodworking first revealed to me. This is probably...

Another vote for Richard Maguire. His instruction is practical and no-nonsense. I did the Spoon Rack and I learned a lot doing it.

I think that the notion of "the race to the bottom with prices" applies to the mass market in anything. However, in the matter of tools, cheapness will often result in disappointment or further expenditure to replace kit which has built in redundancy (Chris Schwarz describes this well in The...

My sincere condolences, FatmanG. To lose a loved one is always a grievous matter, to suffer it in the current circumstances is probably even more painful.

I think that if a screw is to be visible and appearance matters then it needs to be slotted. If the only factor is mechanical then it is just a matter of using the head you find best for your purposes.

I avoid using both posidrive and torx in favour of the ones with a square hole. In my experience that latter are far better than either of the first two. I use them with a Proxon driver and can't fault the combination.

I suppose it could be (although I'd rather not break up another board of cherry) but the drawer front would then be in complete isolation in an aesthetic sense. I like the idea of at least a bit of the top complementing the drawer. That said, I am fairly clueless at artistic things.

Attached is a pic of a Shaker-style drawer I've been making. The original idea was to make the drawer front and the top out of walnut and paint everything else blue as a nice contrast. Then I found out that I didn't have as much walnut as I had thought so cue two bits of cherry. The pic shows...

BTW, here's a pic of the utterly gorgeous Bridge City eggbeater: https://www.jimbodetools.com/products/b ... -box-83469 They also did a brace and a so-called "palm brace".

I think that if someone were to make a modern one, it would have to offer some improvements on the classics while having their solidity and build quality e.g. I reckon it should come with a three and two jaw chuck and it should have a chuck key so that you can properly tighten it up. (Was there...