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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.

Hypothetically, say there was a foreign billionaire interested in thwarting the efforts regarding the CDC research, would they be allowed to fund the organisation in those areas the republican administration and NRA are trying to supress?

When sanding to a finish, stand by the work sideways and push along the grain, with a view to raking out the grain, in the same motion and posture you use a hand plane. Don't stand fully facing the work because you can only sand in an arc that way and will scratch across the grain. which reduces the clarity of the grain relief when you put finish on

Red oak sees to be slightly softer and seems to have a warmer hue than white oak. Nice.

I learnt as well. If you want to not do it that way, this is useful info... might take a read or two to sink but it makes sense.

Yes, It's hard on everything. Buy your pieces as clean as you can afford.I wouldn't cheap out and get rougher stuff with a view to sorting it out. If you want the medullary rays it needs to be quartersawn. Here's a sample page on the type of cuts: https://www.thefurnituremarket.co.uk/what-is-a-medullary-ray-in-oak-furniture The other thing to think about is will you be filling it for a shiny finish or going for the rustic look where the grain is in relief; farmouse table style. Oak is open-pored compared to other woods. TBH, I think, unless you are going for the rustic look, it's going to be very hard work, for you and your equipment. It's my favourite looking wood but it takes muscle and patience to work with. Oak is more akin to working with metal than wood. White oak is 30% harder than black walnut. Notice that cherry is one below walnut and cherry is spot-on to hand sand -walnut should be as well. If you are going for the burr walnut look, rather than straight-grain, you have to sand with the grain with each little section... this is a very patient job as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janka_hardness_test

Oak is a lot harder on your stamina to finish. I used to sand the stuff by hand as one of my past jobs. Have plenty of aluminium oxide paper. Cherry is the nicest to work with. I used to get a beautiful lustre just sanding with 120.

It looks like they've advanced from yours. I've just spotted one that does 2 inch ones. That's more than enough for me. It's 123 pounds, so that will probably make more economic sense for me over a pneumatic one.

I've just started looking at them too. Trying to weigh up if an electric one will do me, if they can deliver up to 1.5inch brads. I've ordered a hakimiwashi saw and a ryoba saw. I want to have a few woodworking projects going this year. Got to get off the computer a bit more as Spring draws nearer.

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Also, i would say if you have views that are way off-centre in terms of the general membership you can expect more. it doesn't make those people necessarily right, it's just their opinion. If you are firm and honest about your opinions take the flak. I kind of know what's going to rattle people but I still post because non-scientific discussions are often necessarily adversarial and emotive. I counter what are, I think, unjustified negatives as well. Don't attach too much weight to positive rep as they are often given for the most frivolous of reasons and I do too.

You could pm a mod to see if their is a vendetta going on by a single poster.

Talk about Pot calling Kettle. Women; just can't keep their hands to themselves.

@iNow You might be interested in a plunging track saw for cutting boards. Here's a video about them: You can knock a support frame up to saw on, like the table top in the video, and lay it down on the floor and then stack it up against a wall when you aren't using it. I don't have space for a work bench so portability is important to me. You can cut sections out in the middle of boards because it's plunging as well... just hand saw the corners I've just bought a fairly simple one with 1m track. It doesn't do angles but can set depth. It was £65($75) delivered... bargain! This one has 30mm cut depth and light enough to be used one handed. Ideally, you want a track length equal to the standard width of boards; 4ft or 1400mm here. I have a couple of little projects involving cutting up boards and this seems a good cost-friendly, portable solution for a hobbyist. This is my saw: http://www.rutlands.co.uk/sp+woodworking-power-tools-machinery-plunge-saws-plunge-cut-saw-with-1m-track-rutlands+xt3510

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There's a few of us silvery ones here so you won't be alone. I'm a bit too young for Gemini missions but remember Apollo. Welcome to the forum.