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Buy half-a-dozen terriers and let them free range the garden...;)

Coat rack below in 3/4" MDF, edge screwed through dowels as above, painted to match kitchen units after filling and two coats Rustins MDF primer with Dulux scrubbable white emulsion coloured with yellow enamel oil paint (yes, they do mix). Original skirting recycled with scribed wall joint...

The Kity K5 combination is what you are after, they are out there, I have just sold a 40 yr old model.

First..Use Rustin's MDF Sealer. Inexpensive, available in s\fix and t\station. Even accepts varnish. Second.. Everywhere you screw into 'end grain' MDF insert a 10mm hardwood dowel 20mm from the edge of the end grain, pre-drill and pre-glue as above & drive your screw through the dowel.

SLW tokens - Scottish Laughing Water tokens Also RLW tokens - Red Laughing Water tokens. Thanks for your info, seems ideal for garden tool shed shelves et cetera.

Not immediately, but selling a Morgan 3 Wheeler (JAP 900) to fund a Ford Prefect must now rank as the silliest thing in the world, unless you count selling an NSU moped registration HOT 901 for £12. What would a particular type of Porche driver pay for that today? I have always said that...

Hhmmm..I'm thinking backs of wall-hung cupboards etc instead of ply...(Saving SLW tokens et cetera. )

Interesting, OSB3, is this Stirling Board ?

Impressive!

I have made an adaptor for my new Axminster 1950 dust port by heating {heat gun} a suitable rainwater fitting and pushing it over the outlet. Fortunately my 50mm hose pushes in the other side with two layers of duct tape. About £2.50p.

I shall call about my handsaws, thanks for this! Doud

I'm sorry, no. It was fitted when we moved in, and has a rectangular section wooden lower slat than hooks into purpose machined stops at various positions down the inside of the tilting frame. It appears to be a Velux fitting.

Any saw doctors known to members in the SW? Apologies for the topic drift but eyes\age make fettling my tenon and dovetail saws difficult.

I have a 1.2m square velux in the roof section of my office which gets all the afternoon sun. It has a roller blind with a white back which is translucent and lets a deal of light through when drawn but reflects 90% of the heat. It can be a bit of a fiddle drawing and clipping it with a hooked...

JSW,,, "Instead of a pin, mine have a thin strip of rubber matting CA glued to the underside of the nose." Wie hadn't heard of CA glue in the 1970s! Poop-poop..

As Recipio says... "A birdsmouth pushstick is not ideal as the wood can lift as you push it into the cut. A homemade 'L' shaped ply jig with a notch at the end is better as you can apply downward pressure." How I agree! With a pin for'd and one in the notch you can even exert a sideways twist...

Oh! Insert embarrassed emoji... Sorry, another million wasted electrons.

Whoa! Ensure your thicknesser will cut and feed a strip that thin without something making a loud, expensive noise, AND clear the chippings. If it all looks a bit too tight and cramped in there, make a narrow smooth flat board with a noggin at one end to act as a false bed for the thicknesser...

A tip worth passing on given to me by Charlie Malia, my woodwork mentor in the Shipwright's shop in HMS St Angelo in the 70s... He had several thinner push sticks into the tip of each he had driven a fine brass pin which he snipped off almost flush with pincers. Just as snipped off panel pins...