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Here's a short piece quoting a journalist who drives a Tesla in the Artic Circle - looks positive but without the numbers you want. But searching for the journalist of publication quoted might find you more information. https://electrek.co/2020/02/11/tesla-model-3-arctic-circle-winter/

I have a Quangsheng low angle jack. I still haven't found anything it's better for than my other planes.

I'm a lightweight, but it's obvious to me that the man needs a plough plane. And a new chisel, of course :D

I'd suggest not using cheap CA - I've glued ceramics with the pound shop stuff and it tends to fail in the washing up! Don't know if expensive CA is better.

My ukuleles, with soundboard width under 6 inches, move enough that I have to allow for expansion in the construction. Of course, they are very thin, but I'd guess a toy box is at least 12 inches wide, which I'd say means potentially expansion of up to 1/4 inch (in practice, less because indoors...

Danish oil will be a bit shinier than boiled linseed oil. Smelly too, but the smell goes quicker. Either works fine. The most important thing is not to sand through the veneer, or it will look horrid.

Looking at the speaker, my guess is that it originally had a gentle satin sheen, with the grain of the wood visible as a texture (ie, not a flat, even sheen). If so, and you want to restore that ... This is what I'd do. 1. Gently sand the surface with fine abrasive. Somewhere around P320 grit...

Vice plus a nice stout bit of iron pipe. Lever the rod over until the pipe hits the vice, slide pipe back to fit the vice, continue bend. Check for 90 degrees with a square.

I've tapped threaded rod into end grain for bolt on ukulele necks. The end grain definitely needs to be soaked in CA glue - first before I tap, then after, using the tap again to recut the thread. But ... This s for bolts which will be removed maybe twice in the lifetime of the instrument. The...

Try it on a scrap of the wood you intend to use - that's the only way to see how close you are. Note in particular that stained softwood won't look anything like that oak, and might even be hard to stain without blotching. But other hardwood species will stain differently too. Test for definite!

Luthiers tend to use a domestic iron, or hair drier/heat gun, or heat lamp, or heat blanket for things like the bridge. The challenge is the neck to body joint, as the neck block is maybe 50 X 100 mm and they don't want to unglue it from the dies, back and top. Here they drill into the joint...

You probably didn't need so much heat! Luthiers know that PVA and aliphatic resin glue such as Titebond softens at the kind of temperatures you find in a car on a hot day. If you need to do this again, try less heat but for longer - it takes quite a time for heat to penetrate 2cm of wood. Once...

Ah, the acacia I've worked with all had noticeable pores. I'm stumped then.

Purely a guess without seeing it in person, but it could be some species of Acacia. I've used Hawaiian acacia koa, and also Tasmanian Blackwood (acacia melynoxon), in making musical instruments. I'm pretty sure it's not koa - even the simplest grain figure in that tends to be wavier! I've never...

On eBay, sellers choose which carrier to use, so eBay won't do anything about a complaint about a carrier. Your most effective complaining method is probably via Twitter, on the carrier's own Twitter feed. That reaches potential customers of the carrier, so they might take some notice.

Suggestions to motivate yourself: 1. Get a small stock of wood. Haunt your local charity shop which sells furniture, and when you find an ugly, but solid wood, table/bookcase which seems cheap, buy it. Break it down into usable bits. 2. From time to time, pick up a bit and muse. Does it seem...

It might be more useful to review the lease. My late parents' house was in a similar complex, and my father became Chair of the residents association and had fun chivvying the management company over service charges. What service fees can be used for is defined by the lease. If some is put into...

Lighter fluid is great stuff for cleaning many finishes - it's safe for shellac and nitrocellulose and so is used by luthiers world-wide. White spirit is a slightly heavier distillate - it works well too but takes longer to flash off and is smellier. I'd guess both are not so good on oil...

Ah, maybe I should have said that this is an incompetent man's approach to the kind of finish you can get via French Polishing (though less good, I admit). I've tried, and I really can't get the hang of it! It's actually not at all time consuming compared to French Polishing, just spread out...

Of course! Bear in mind that I want a very thin finish on my instruments (a thick coat kills the sound), and to achieve that I use many very thin coats with lots of sanding back in between. But I've finished a couple of jewellery boxes using shellac, so this is what I describe here. Let me know...