StringJunky

Don't forget the effect of UV over time. What wood species are you working on? Got myself a Bosch Ergonomic Li-ion combi dril... fab! Just restored my Grandad's Stanley 130 double-ended plane... sharp! I also just got a double-sided diamond sharpening plate and having fun with that. Far superior and flatter than a whetstone. Japanese waterstones are the ultimate but I can't justify spending hundreds on them.

Yes, the mental health services need sorting and that's not going to happen in a private payer system. Nice to see all the noise being created at the moment by the younger generation. As we noted earlier, the great majority of Americans don't own weapons, so they can potentially shout louder than the NRA, and their other unreasonable supporters, if they put their collective mind to it. America, in reality, is not as gun-happy a nation, as first appears. It's the vocal minority that are making up for the silent majority. Hopefully that will change.

I'd put it down to inadequate/non-existent screening policies and lack of enforcement of those that are screened. A stable person with a large, secure collection is safer than a nutter with a single gun, so I don't think absolute numbers of weapons matters too much. I think the type of guns people keep matters and the type of people that have any gun matters.

If video games significantly caused more killings in Japan, potential killers will still find a way, even without guns. It has its moments but Japan seems pretty placid on the whole WRT violence statistics vs the US.

Given his previous position, his maturing realisation is to be applauded.

Those are the thoughts of the Republican half of that committee. The Dems on that committee are not happy at all.

Added to my shopping list.

What size compressor have you got? I want the smallest I can get away with for a 16 gauge 2" nailer.

On making mistakes: "A master woodworker is not someone who never makes mistakes. He is someone who is able to cover them up so that no one can tell." I'm asking myself: do I need a finish nailer?

There's a sizable bunch of clever people doing woodwork. Some luthiers, to name one group, can talk science with the best of them.

It's amazing that people are so interested in it and to such depth; I merely scratch the surface when I do etymological searches. I find such knowledge useful because I can often determine meanings of words I've never seen before from their components, which I might be familiar with.

What led you on to that little philological/etymological excursion?

For those it would benefit, it would be an altruistic act.

Just got to get all the shares.... and then commit financial hara-kiri.

So, a controlling shareholder can't destroy a company, if they wish? That's a shame in this particular circumstance.

When trying to envisage the scale of a problem it can help to look at it in a different way, so that it doesn't seem so insurmountable. What iNow was focussing on, and he acknowledged, was the number of guns, but those are not the problem, it's the people that own them. Quantitatively, the real numbers at issue is the no. of guns/number of gun owners, which is far too high. In essence, yes, I'm trying to make the problem look smaller so that it is more conceptually manageable and, possibly, solvable.

May I suggest that you are making the problem appear bigger than it is by perhaps not realising that those 256 million weapons are only with about a quarter of the population, give or take 5%.

I'm in the process of getting back into it and I want to learn to adopt Japanese techniques and I'm a geat admirer of their mindset in woodwork. From your perspective, I would let your projects dictate the order of your purchases because, at the end of the day, it's about doing, not owning. But certainly, get yourself a Japanese saw or two one day. A Ryoba would be a good start. It has two cutting edges; one for ripping and one for crosscutting. Shogun and Gyokucho are decent makes with prices depending on the level of handcrafting that's gone into them - expect to pay $30 -40 upwards. Here''s a hikimawashi I got today from a Japan on Ebay. It was about £11 delivered. It's 10TPI, so it's pretty fast cutting:

I'm on a Japanese saw buying spree at the moment. A Kugihiki. A Hikimawashi, 2 Ryobas and a Kataba.

We are not demonizing all the gun owners. You've been in this conversation long enough to realise we are talking about a certain faction of gun owners. It's like they've lost an oxygen tank and they'll die without it.

I think a scene in an Evil Roy Slade film highlights it really well, when a woman he loves asks him to remove all his weapons - of which there are many - and he turns into a gibbering wreck as lets go of each one. Gun rights advocates probably feel emasculated at the thought of not having guns available to them on hand.

People can do what they like there with them. There is insufficient regulation and oversight. You don't see this sort of stuff elsewhere: Church officials hold their AR-15-style rifles while people attend a blessing ceremony with their AR-15-style rifles at the Sanctuary Church in Newfoundland, Pennsylvania. Many celebrants wore crowns - some made of bullets - while church officials. https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/blessing-the-ar-15-idUSRTX4ZCOJ

The medication only confirms that they were mentally ill.

From what I've read on it, regarding psychiatric drugs, the suicidal ideation is usually a temporary state whilst a patient adjusts to a drug in the early stages and they'll be monitored anyway with their healthcare professionals mindful of it.

Right.