I use the corded Festool most days and would never hesitate to recommend. It’s small, lightweight easy to handle. It’s accurate (it’ll cut through a sheet of 18mm ply without marking the board beneath), has very good extraction (corded means the extractor starts up when the saw does, no need to be switching on/off), and the silicone edge on the rails means lining up is easy and accurate, not to mention lack of tear-out. The motor will limit itself if I over-work it, then come back when it’s cooled. The quick-change system for the blade is also very useful.

Can you visit a dealer and get your hands on each?

That would be an ecumenical matter.

The 50mm will be like a 75mm (full frame) on the D5300; the 35mm will be like a 50mm. If the money isn’t an issue then I’d say get the 35mm and see how you get in with it. A new focal length always teaches you something…

Nikkor 35mm f2 I’ve used since the days of film, now back to full-frame on D800. It got a bit less use when I had DX sensors, when I used a 28mm instead. Very comfortable/natural focal length for me, and that particular lense has great character.

I saw on the news that paedos have more in common genetically with crabs than with you* and me. That’s scientific fact. Or is it all noncesense?

*whatever

to everything already said about France, I will add this: philosophy is compulsory in schools. That doesn’t mean that kids learn what Plato said, and/or why Diogenes opposed it – it means that they learn how to question, engage, consider, confront and elucidate; to ask ‘why?’; it means they learn to be philosophical. Is it any great surprise that they typically show the English so much disdain?

I’d huck it

Instructions would be great,

Shouldn’t be necessary, especially considering the forum has so few options/functions; it’s not even Acera-level – the Tesco Basics of fora, if you like. If the interface were well-designed it wouldn’t need instructions.

:) you know what I meant…

I can’t get this quite right.

What does it need?

The search is limited at the moment while they sort other priorities.

Like just listing the threads a user has replied to?

Oh, I see. In that case: just click ‘profile’, then click ‘forums’, then click ‘replies created’ then simply read through large blocks of text, clicking through as many pages as possible, before you find the post you’re looking for. Alternatively, simply click through the main forum as so few people post these days that you should stumble upon you thread quite soon. HTH

on the upside, at least we can keep a log of our post edits. That’s pretty cool.

I can’t help with your logistical quandary, but it’s sounds like the perfect premise for a novel. Or at least a romantic comedy.

You just have to keep clicking, you’ll get there eventually and everyone’s a winner! Click, click, click…

Shirley the best solution for everyone, including spectators, is to equalise the prize money, but keep the girls on best of three and add a couple of rounds of oil/mud wrestling.

I pulled alongside Nick Cave in a traffic jam on the M6 last year.

Never argue with a fool. They’ll only drag you down to their level and beat you with experience every time…

It’s all bollocks

Calm down dear. And what’s all this talk of unicorns? Do you own any handmade or bespoke furniture? Do you own anything made by a highly skilled, sympathetic maker or artist?

It’s how they have been part of my life that puts soul into my inanimate objects

I’d suggest that you’re talking about character. Use brings character, making provides* soul.

*or doesn’t

Just C&P the URL into the reply box.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0-0ChljgWCQ

Thanks Alex. The cabinet is a commission, and my interpretation of the client’s ideas rather than something I’d design from scratch. My minimalism meets somebody else’s, well, not-so-minimalism :) They were thrilled, so I’m happy too.

Are you on good terms with your local luthier?

Someday I’m going to be in conversation with somebody and find myself stuck for what to say next. I genuinely hope that it’s that ^^ which pops into my head first.

Go to guitar shop and play all the guitars you like the look of and fall within budget, but the one that fits you. There’s not a huge amount of setting up can be done (for free) on an acoustic – they’ll probably charge you for adjusting the height of the nut or saddle as they’d usually just replace it, and truss adjustment is really for pulling out curvature, not raising/lowering the action.

Solid oak cabinet for glassware. Inlay brass details/handles, cherry plinth.

The ring is caused by moisture being released from the wood and staining the lacquer from the underside. I use an iron/damp cloth to remove dents from untreated wood, not sure I’d be happy doing it to lacquered wood as it might just leave an iron-shaped mark as per explanation above. I suspect jamesoz just got (very) lucky!

I never got on with Gimp. getpaint.net is my go-to.

Then perhaps you should have recommended that.

I’d use Photoshop, Gimp seems to be the go-to freeby replacement – try that. You’ll need a filter layer to remove the red/brown of the sepia, then tweak the hue and saturation. I don’t think you’d get very good results simply turning colours up or down.

Also, how important do people find the lens hood?

They’re vital for some lenses, but they usually come with one. The hood stops light entering the lens at an angle where it can reflect off the barrel of the lens, causing flare and haze, and softening the focus and contrast. Of course, shoot any lens in the direction of a light source and you’ll usually get all of the above, so a hood will/might somewhat increase the scope of where and when you can shoot. Bear in mind that all of those effects are sometimes desirable – character and all that.

Osmo Polyx-oil is an excellent oil/wax for tables – highly resistant to spills and stains – and is possibly the most easy-to-apply finish. It can also be repaired/reapplied in small areas.

Sanding a table is no easy task, very easy to pull up the less dense, early-growth fibres n oak. You’ll end up with irreparable undulations if you go at it too hard. Practice in the underside first!

So I think I have a short of medium cage and need a long in order to maintain the correct tension!

Your chain doesn’t skip because of a lack of tension, it’s skips because it can’t hold onto the gears. The chain is only in operation between the top (well, top and back a bit) of the front ring and the top of the cassette sprocket – that’s where all the effective/working tension is. The tension created by the derailleur is to take up the slack *under* the gears, the slack (excess chain) required to allow the chain to fit around your both the smallest and the largest gear combinations – the wider the range of gears, the more chain you need, and the longer the derailleur cage needs to be to accommodate it. Derailleur tension stops the chain from flapping around, stops it coming off (laterally) if you backpedal, but doesn’t cause or prevent the chain from jumping vertically off the gears, which is what skipping is. A stuck link, damaged chain, or worn chain/gears are the causes of skipping.

I’d agree somewhat with FunkyDunc. Personally, and unless you have ethical issues with eating meat, I’d look at a low (-20g/day) carb diet first and deal with your craving for carbs. Discipline with food is easier, or at least simpler, when you don’t have glucose slumps telling you that you’re ‘hungry’ again. Hunger is a totally different feeling when you get energy from fats.

The camera is a cropped sensor model – by a factor of 1.62 if you want to calculate other lens equivalents – so the ‘get a 50mm’ advice needs to be adjusted to ‘get a 28 or 35mm’ (x 1.62 = 45mm or 56mm), so roughly the same field of view as a 50mm on a full-frame sensor.

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What is France?

I am really missing the replies bit

Click the # link under the posts in Forums / Replied to in your profile.

That just takes you to your own post, which you’ve just seen in full anyway. What I want to see in my profile is if there are any more posts. I don’t want to have to click more times to find that out, although I suspect that is probably the idea.

If you have a Wilko local to you get one if their unblocker kits – bottle of dissolver gel and a long plastic, bendy stick with barbs on. Only £1.50 and I found it very effective at getting through a hefty blockage.

I put a load on mine just last night. I added MP4s to the Library in iTunes then ticked ‘sync movies’, then ticked the ones I wanted on the iPad, then synced. They show up in Library > Home Videos

You can’t just tether from your phone? How much data do you need?