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While I appreciate that you have specified power tools, I wonder if you have considered something like the Veritas combination plane. That together with a router plane (not functionally to be confused with a router) will do an awful lot of the things you need while not necessitating dust...

It looks like the sort of handy little tool that you would want to have around the bench for touching things up. It's the sort of thing that Lee Valley might do a repro of. I'd certainly get one if they did.

In my opinion it depends on your build. If you’re 6 foot and broad shouldered, then a No 6 might be your ideal dogsbody plane, otherwise a 5 1/2 is a good idea. The Veritas low angle jack plane is also a fantastic bit of kit. Add to that a block plane and a 7 or 8 and you‘ll be ready to go. It...

Thanks very much for the comments. It really is most encouraging. Suffolk Boy: Plagiarise as much as you want. I'd love to see a pic of what you eventually produce. Custard: I didn't consciously think of racking. "Stable and Square" was foremost in my thoughts, which, come to think of it...

The top got three coats of Danish Oil and the rest just one coat. It's difficult to see from the phots but the top projects about an inch beyond the shelves. I came to the view that any serious projection on a shoe rack needs to be asymmetric with it projecting more at the front that at the...

Here are a couple of pics of my second attempt at making a shoe rack: It's made of tulip wood. The central stripe on the top is elm and the thin battens in the middle of the racks are shop-bought beech strips. The second shot shows the construction (and mistakes). The long strips of the...

Could it have been a highly specialised plane for use by a specific tradesman? For instance with a blade curved to match the sole, could it have perhaps been used by somebody who made round handles e.g. broom handles? The wide mouth is a bit more puzzling. The need to observe the work being...

I'll put my hand up to that as I am obviously guilty. However, I will plead the following in mitigation: I use it for two things (soon, alas, to be three), one is telephoning and I average about three calls a month. The second is to have quick contact to my emails which is useful on an admin...

John Entwistle was an excellent bass player. In fact I can't think of any of his contemporaries who were better. I really liked Keith Moon's drumming though and of course Daltrey was a tip top singer.

The title of the thread is the title of Roger Daltrey's autobiography. I was never particularly a fan of The Who although I tend to think that Won't Get Fooled Again may be the best rock song ever written. I did however always think that Roger Daltrey seemed to be a down to earth sort of chap...

Thanks, lads. I'd forgotten that they make cases for them (I don't regard myself as a child of the digital age) and come to think of it, I think I was subconsciously approaching it as if it were a woodworking problem. Oops!

I bought an iPhone 8 yesterday (there's no way on earth I need all the capabilities of the much too big 11) and it's essentially fine but for one massive design flaw: the surface is so smooth that it is as slippery as an eel. Therefore if I place it on any even slightly sloped surface which is...

On the subject of bench vices this: https://hntgordon.com.au/products/front-vice-no-racking from HNT Gordon looks interesting and it's cheaper than those Orange vices (although perhaps not so eye-catching). There's a good youtube clip about it too.

As an ex-Army bloke I wonder if signing up for six or so years might do him some good. He'd be earning, learning new things, be focussed (whether he wants to be or not) and would almost certainly work out what he wants to do in the long run. The big advantage for him would be that he would learn...

I wouldn't be so sceptical of humanities subjects if what actually happened in university was uniformly of a high standard. For instance, I believe that Oxbridge humanities undergraduates have to do an essay a week and that to a high standard, yet in other places you can graduate with having...

Ref. what TN and RogerS said about university: first the practical then the theoretical. Practical: university means debt unless your parents can pick up the bills for you. So you have to ask yourself if the study is worth the debt. Everything should follow from the answer to that question. I...

I'm inclined to agree with you. However, there is one nagging thing that makes me think the boffins might just be right. Apparently, they may be able to account for dark matter if there are more dimensions than the four (if you count time as a dimension) which we recognise. The problem is that...

Just be glad you don't live near me! I'm currently trying to bash my way through a book on cosmology and galaxies and the maths is a right b*gger, so I'd be knocking on your door all the time, saying, "Ey up mate. Have you got a minute to explain to me what this means?" You'd soon lose your...

I think I'd go along with RogerS's distinction between career and job. Neither path is a guarantee of contentment in your working life. My first career was the Army, 22 years of it and it was mostly very fulfilling except where I found myself in circumstances where bureaucrats and pen pushers...

Don't think I haven't thunk of that, Terry! :D It was precisely because of wanting to avoid the U that I thought of one arm being sprung-hinge mounted. However, it occurs to me that I can make a couple of Us to fit on the inside of the arms i.e. they will not be readily visible. That sort of...