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Sharpen it, set it if necessary, and see how it works. Then decide.

Fire it away from you?! Are you starting at the wrong end? It should try to fire it towards you. The stop block will resist that, and make the plunge simple....but you must offer the workpiece up at the correct end.

Not at all. That should be child's play, assuming you have adequate dust extraction.

Stop blocks are your answer here, at both ends of the cut. They can be as simple as a piece of scrap clamped to the fence.

Stopped chamfers, so long as they stop clear of any junctions, can be however you want them to be. I generally set mine back about 6 inches from a junction, but in some circumstances this can be as little as 2 inches. The stopped end.....chamfer the edges boldly (I usually do 25mm), but only on...

.......announced a working vaccine without publishing any results, and before the stage C trials had completed. You're perfectly welcome to rush out to have that stuck in your arm, but I'll just wait until some proper science is completed, thanks.

You need to hang around the Hand Tool forum a little more. There are some extremely knowledgeable and helpful posters there who should be on your list. Nice as your comment is, I don't think any forum should start dividing into "us and them", as giving some members perks is bound to be...

Yeah, but what is it?

People can misuse the Edit function. That annoying guy who was going to build a shed his way no matter what advice he received kept going back and editing his posts after he had received a response, rendering the response redundant and thus attempting to make the responder look silly...

Being able to edit the first post in a thread you've started is an extremely useful option if it is a WIP-type thread. This enables you to update the thread title to let people know that there is another chapter added. Also, in Sales, you are actually required by the forum rules to update the...

Just don't have a beam which is narrower than the post. It was never, ever done. If you have a 150 square post, then your beam should be at least 150 wide. Anything else will look dreadful. Don't forget, the engineer's sizes are a minimum, so make it a 200 x 150, or 200 x 175, beam. So a proper...

Nice post, but it's a pity the photos are so small, and can't be enlarged by clicking on them. I'm sure the results are beautiful, but bleary early-morning eyes have no chance of seeing them. There are a number of ways that this joint can be done differently*, and this rigid adherence to ratios...

No, but Charley and probably the Mods knew this was happening. It wouldn't have been difficult to have posted a warning ahead of the shutdown, and if the members best interests were the priority then of course that is what would have happened.

I'm not angry with your post, Droogs, but I clicked it to see what happens.

We've only just got over the last major overhaul! :) It seems we have lost "Thanks" and "Like", had our Ignore lists scrubbed, and gained some Scrabble letters down the left hand side of the screen. I'm sure the sky will fall in as a result. Couldn't there have been some warning of the...

The door won't fall apart, but it will look terrible, with two different width stiles. If it's a hollow core door, rather than a stile and rail paneled door, then you're going to have an awful job trying to fit packers neatly into the gaps on the edges (because of the incredibly thick glue that...

Very nice Nick....but that's the easy bit. The work starts with making all the tool supports.

That option is just wrong! :) There is only one option, and if she doesn't like it tell her that's the only way that a latch can possibly work. If she doesn't believe you, direct her here to this forum.

Seal up the ends (undercoat, PVA, "Black Jack", gloss paint....whatever you've got), and get it stacked away out of this sun as quick as you can. Put it in the shade, but open to moving air, and stack it such that there is good airflow around all of the pile. This will mean separating layers...

It doesn't need it for you to remain safe, but if you want to paint it, paint it with any old thing. Normal emulsion will do just fine.