Wooden tool with screws and metal blade.
Furniture & Cabinetmaking

Mason and Housework

John Lloyd looks at a 15th-century technique that revolutionised furniture making. No, this has nothing to do with secret handshakes and aprons, this is the most important development in furniture construction. Not the combining of concrete, stainless steel and carbon fibre with multiple strips of wood and gallons of epoxy resin to create a curvaceous, multi-media extravaganza, and not the

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Modern minimalist table with elegant legs
Furniture & Cabinetmaking

Making The Sika Console Table

Laurent Peacock outlines the techniques used in the joinery of his Sika console table. When designers seek inspiration for new work, the old edict ‘form follows function’ is often a solid starting point. However, when I began developing ideas for a speculative console table design, the relative absence of a specific function to design around prompted me to look further

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Glossary of Woodworking Terms

Arris: A arris is the term for a sharp edge on wood where two edges meet. It is common to sand this edge to make it less sharp. Awl: This is a pointy tool used for marking or drilling a small hole. Bevel: This is an angle on the edge of two meeting surfaces. On a piece of wood a bevel take the

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GMC Imperial to Metric Conversion Table
Furniture & Cabinetmaking

Measurements Conversion Chart

Different countries use different measuring systems and typically the USA uses the standard/English/Imperial system and the UK uses the Metric system. It is possible to get calculators to make the conversions but the ones that use fractions are not so easy to find. Below is the conversion chart we use for all our publications and it gives the best results

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Wooden hand plane, spiral carvings
Projects

Stylised Killer Whale

Dave Western creates from scrapwood a killer whale that is based heavily on a dramatic form of stylisation common to Celtic

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Wooden walking stick handle in green foliage
Woodcarving

Lyre-shaped Thumbstick

Paul Purnell makes a lyre-shaped thumbstick. Following on from last month’s article on joining a shank to a head, a

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GMC Imperial to Metric Conversion Table
Furniture & Cabinetmaking

Measurements Conversion Chart

Different countries use different measuring systems and typically the USA uses the standard/English/Imperial system and the UK uses the Metric

Read More
GMC Imperial to Metric Conversion Table
Furniture & Cabinetmaking

Measurements Conversion Chart

Different countries use different measuring systems and typically the USA uses the standard/English/Imperial system and the UK uses the Metric

Read More
White wardrobe with bi-fold doors in bedroom
Woodworking Crafts

How to Make Bi-Fold Doors

An ‘open and shut’ installation job that definitely needed closure. The space in question was a small Victorian cottage bedroom

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Rustic coffee table with open book and glasses
Projects

Rustic Coffee Table

Michael T Collins makes a beautiful rustic-looking coffee table. I have long been a proponent of recycling wood and when a

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