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Plans for nine new homes on the former Sentinel Works business site in Bury St Edmunds have been refused because it would be an overdevelopment of the land

Plans for nine new homes on a former business site in Bury St Edmunds look set for approval - although community leaders have lodged an objection.

I just use a plain knife tool - with a cutting edge square to the spindle centreline, a plan trail angle of *about* 20 degrees and a point radius of about 20 thou/ half a mm. Leftmost tool in the pic. If I'm roughing, I might angle the toolpost to give a plan approach angle of 10 degrees or so, but as an amateur machinist I'm not often in enough of a hurry to do that. If I'm finishing, I quite often cock the toolpost over so as to almost eliminate the plan trail angle, and use the trailing edge of the tool almost as a shaving face - small depth of cut, low speed, bit of lube, variable feed de...