If you’re fixing plasterboard to it I see no point whatsoever to join the two pieces of timber.
The plasterboard will do that.
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Cut a dovetail each side and tap a butterfly in. It may be under plasterboard but you’ll know its there. It’ll grate forever if not connected, imagine the conniptions, awesome in scale.
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Lots of nice answers. All are wrong -This problem affords the opportunity to tick off one of middle age mans bucket list items:
It’s nail gun O’clock
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Not as much fun as a nail gun but cheaper [quote=“Jim, post:2851, topic:1555, full:true”]
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That is the kind of thing I was looking for, but now I’m just going to screw it to the wall.
If I do my back in lifting my big drill that high you, and only you, are allowed to laugh.
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Fnah, fnah
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Beautiful old Wadkin PK. Mine isn’t as pretty but she still runs perfectly, not bad for 90 years old.
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My new chainsaw just arrived…
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My new circular saw. Was on sale but also technically better than the equivalent Dewalt. Works a treat, the slot down the middle of my bench is ideal for ripping long boards just using a clamped fence.
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A very kind man put a pillar drill on PFM/WAM free to someone who could collect.
Now the happy owner of a Meddings Driltru, proper old school cast iron construction.
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Quality 
If it hasn’t been hammered it will outlast you.
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Given that even my boggo Wickes unit is a joy to use, that should be properly good.
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It seems really good, bearings are smooth with no play and motor is quiet with no vibration, really happy with it and worth a 4 hour trip.
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Best thing is it will stop me breaking <3mm bits
Possibly 
Well mostly. 
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Lightweight extended garden saw for removing out-of-reach branches from my neighbour’s trees (old saw lashed to length of PVC pipe)
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I used to have something similar till I upgraded to this middle of Lidl special.
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