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Not a traditional woodworking tool, but anyhoo... I've been using 6mm Dyneema double braid line for a project recently (rigging shade sails); regular scissors and heavy duty snips just slide off this stuff. I've got some small Kevlar snips which I've used before for smaller diameter Kevlar...

Depending on your interests you might also like one of the flexcut pocket knives, I've got a 3 bladed whittling knife and a carving jack from them which make for a great portable way of wasting time and making wood smaller. The fit of the wooden scales is sub-par compared to 'premium' knives...

On the subject of peasants, I've got a Svord Peasant mini from Heinnie, rough as you like, but kind of classy with it. Lots of folks have replaced the stock scales and pimped the blades. I like mine as it is, a little rough around the edges. It's UK Street legal because it doesn't lock, but...

That way madness lies! Step away from the mouse! :wink: Edit: Oh, dear ... http://deti.mil.by/flash/?id=1 DW's original pistol game, but opens in the middle of the screen (the original link opens in the bottom left of my screen for some reason...) http://deti.mil.by/flash/?id=9 Shoot targets...

To be honest they can fill their boots - so long as they tidy things up, categorise properly, get rid of the duplicates and touch up all the ones where I'm gurning and blinking at the flash. :lol:

Steve Maskery recently wrote a piece for British Woodworking on making a panel gauge - might be worth seeing if anybody has the copy kicking around, or ping Steve directly and see if he can post some pics?

Thanks DW - very addictive! Fortunately, I managed to ace it with a 30 in 4s - so the weekend's safe! By the way, video games from Belarus - you're not a sleeper cell are you? I've now got a nagging feeling that there's somebody in the Kremlin watching me via my webcam and trawling through my...

Phone your local police station and get a crime reference number?

I understood that Section 106 charges were going to be scrapped for smaller developments, has this not been enacted yet? P.S. I'm following your trials and tribulations with interest/morbid curiosity - please keep up the posts! Edit, just read the following: So I guess the infrastructure...

Congrats on getting things weather tight - can't be too careful with a British summer! Aren't they Moiré patterns?

I've found them plenty stiff enough, and the joint can be tightened up. The dog-leg on the point means that you can't get the point right up against the vertical reference for smaller offsets, but I find that the little moulded lump on the fold-out compass leg serves quite well. The minimum...

Hi Ollie, I agree with your logic re: dust; however in practice I've found that when I take my drop bin outside periodically to change the bin liner I get very little/no dust escape, I'm all masked up and make sure to stand upwind (I avoid doing it in very windy conditions!). I do take care to...

I've just paid £12.47 (£8.00 Royal Mail fee plus £4.47 VAT) on a package from the US. My wife paid $26.42 for the goods on 5th July, which translates to about £15.40 using the 0.583 USD/GBP rate from xe.com on the date of payment. So, it's a fair cop the import exceeded the £15 threshold, by...

Forgot to mention my combo compasses/scribing pencil/pencil, very compact and they work a charm once you get used to the elbow joint on the pointy leg; I use this with 2B leads, the softer lead/bolder line means less pressure to draw an effective line and thus fewer breakages. As a bonus the...

I've ditched carpenter's pencils in favour of 'solid' carpenter's pencils I picked up a couple in the US - they seem to last forever and are effectively unbreakable in normal use! Like Jimi43 I use an old Staedtler Mars 2mm clutch pencil completely overbuilt, nice and solid. I've got some of...

Eh, you were lucky to have a Zip drive! We used to have a 20MB Iomega Bernoulli box! ... ...... And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you

Hanser, Very sorry for your family's loss - Ricky certainly looks quite the charmer. Kev

So did I - nearly bought myself a nice handle!

Well, you made me look; I'm guessing this is the one you're talking about It might be more straightforward for the seller to say "The original handles are rare, this is a nicely made replica of the original handle"

Thanks for that, still chuckling at the "Makers of handcrafted, antique moustache wax" - is Brooklyn now Brooklandia?