Next on the list for a ban. They came for my neighbors ID, and I said nothing, then they came for my neighbors VPN, and an I did nothing, and now they are coming for me on I2P, and there is no one left to speak for me…

Shock Aaaand dismay. Dismay, yes, shock, no. This is how it goes with all military occupations. Civilians are killed, soldiers are killed. It’s the name of the game after all, War, so no, not shocked at all.

Life is art, art is life something somethin. Go away, I’m Batein!!!

‘Slaps spaceship’ You can fit so many fascists in this bad boy…

3M makes a set of bluetooth hearing protection ear muffs/headphones called 3M Pro Protect. They have speakers and a microphone that allows you make phone calls while wearing them, and also hear your surroundings, but they cut out loud sounds, like running a big machine, very loud yawns, or coughing. There is a button that switches the volume of ambient sounds between four volume levels and completely off. They offer a noise reduction of something like 26 decibels, so they are pretty quiet when you shut the mic off. I am sound sensitive, and these have been a real godsend. They may very well dampen your reaction to triggers. Finding the path forward is the Way. You’re doing great!!!

Some people feel that an internal state conflict that results in more than 1000 deaths per year qualifies as a state of civil war. By that metric, the numbers of people in the USA killed by the police has meant that the USA has been in a state of civil war for many years now.

You do you the best way you feel you can. You aren’t alone; everyone has their own coping methods, all unique to themselves. Whatever runs through your head isn’t anyone’s business but your own, unless you choose to make it otherwise. Thank goodness for that. You are doing great!

Somewhat, but primarily it cuts on the bottom. The most special thing about a rabbet plane is that the blade cuts just as wide as the body, whereas a normal plane will be at least 1/8" from whatever the side might be riding on. The blade is a slight bit wider than the body, and depending on how you set the blade, can protrude enough to slightly scrape the side. My Lie-Nielson rabbet block plane actually has little spurs on both sides that you can put down to make a clean cut, say on the shoulder of a tenon, or the bottom of a routed v-groove that is full of fuzz. The ability to cut precisely into corners is what gives the rabbet plane it’s versatility, and that whacky shape of the #92 is what makes it my favorite. It seems that no matter the position, there is some comfortable way to grip that body. It really has an amazing feel to the hand. It is very evident when you pick it up that it was meant for the human hand to create with. I’ve been building doors, entry systems, free floating curved staircases, and anything and everything else that can be made of wood for most of my life at this point, so that’s the base for my advice. I don’t sell tools, I use em, and I love to be able to share some of the things I’ve learned in the thousands of hours I’ve spent working wood. It is a dying art; there aren’t a lot of people who know anything of mortise and tenon, or cope and stick, and knowledge of how to build and accommodate to wood movement is practically nonexistent. This knowledge that has served humanity for millenia is down to a handful of folks, most aging out, dying, and that valuable skill die with em. There’s nothing else that compares to working wood, and to me at least, there’s not much better than making a piece that you know will last several lifetimes, if not indefinitely when cared for.

The captain is referring to the fact that if your guide, or shooting board is riding under the sole of the plane, the plane will damage the shooting board because the blade goes from edge to edge, unlike a typical plane which has small pieces of the sole on both sides of the blade that prevent it from cutting too deeply into the shooting board. With a rabbet plane you run any guide on the side to prevent the guide’s destruction. The Captain is correct that a traditional shooting board does not work as well with a traditional shooting board setup, however even this can be ameliorate by simply skewing your plane at a 25° angle to your forward motion, and the sole will then be partially out of line with the blade, and act as the small pieces of sole on either side of the blade to limit the depth of cut.

Yes. A machine planer will not remove warp, twist, or bow from wood, it just takes the wood to a very certain thickness repeating whatever shape the wood riding on the bed has. You need a machine called a jointer to quickly straighten and square stock before it is run through a machine planer. A jointer is a machine with a steeper learning curve than a planer, but it will not be as steep as learning to eyeball and flatten stock with a handplane.

Yeah, you are on the right track thinking about riding the side of the plane on a guide. This is typically called a shooting block, and is not limited to 90°. You can make a guide of any angle and those wide sides make it really easy to maintain consistency.

Yes. See my other, more lengthy reply in this thread:)

This person has it right. I’d still recommend this for your use case, as typical planes cannot work on joint adjustment or endgrain very well. The #92 is not going to be the best plane for flattening or trueing stock, a larger plane would do that more easily and quickly. The #92 can do a lot of things better than others, and it has a few tricks normal planes connot do, like cutting all the way into the corner of a joint, or evening out the profiles of two joined pieces (like a joint in crown mould). The body of the plane is square to the sole, making 90° easily achievable by riding the side of the plane on an adjacent 90° surface. As a huge help on the learning curve of woodwork, the small blade, at only 3/4" wide will be much easier for a beginner to sharpen than a two inch wide blade. Sharpening a plane well is the only way to have it work well for you, less effort, less tearout, and of course, the wonderfully unique and not often seen finish produced by a sharp plane cutting the grain as opposed to sanding breaking that same wood grain. I have about a dozen handplanes, including a couple Lie-Nielson (their 1-1/4" rabbet block plane is my second favorite), but the #92 gets more use and has more functions than the rest combined. I could talk about my sweetheart for days, but what you probably want to do is scoot down to Woodcraft and get some planes in your hands. What works and feels best for me may be, or may not be for you. I can say confidently that if you get to use the #92, you won’t be disappointed.

WoodRiver Medium Shoulder Plane - # 92. I’ve had one of these for years, and it’s my favorite go to plane. Great for adjusting joints of all kinds, and about a billion other things.

What you are describing would probably be best fit by what’s called a “Dyson Sphere”, which would be a spherical shell constructed around a star in order to capture and make use of all of the radiant energy of said star. Such a construct would have to have the ability to manipulate gravity in order to keep the star in the center of the sphere, and one could extend this concept to include habitable planet(s) in orbit around this star, inside the Dyson Sphere. Now, slap an Alcubierre drive on your Dyson Sphere, and you are cruising yer solar system through the galaxy.

Oh my, did we go and pollute all the world with forever chemicals? Whoopsie! Here’s about 30 seconds of profit, now you run along, and keep drinkin up on that PFAS, now ya hear…

It’s Bigfoot!

Total Boat is great. It keeps up with West System Epoxy, and it’s cheaper. Also, Total Boat allows you to thin with acetone per the instructions. Total Boat isn’t picky about what you put in it. Use some black wood dust or take your pick of dyes, even the Ritt dyes from your local supermarket should work just fine.