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Furniture & Cabinetmaking

Close-up of hands assembling wooden furniture.

Sliding Dovetails

In an extract taken from The Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery, Gary Rogowski looks at through sliding dovetails Through sliding

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Woman reading document outside council office, 1940s.

Utility Furniture

Anthony Bailey researches the history of ration-era furniture and restores a 1950 stable. In the 21st century – the age

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Close-up of a Japanese saw blade

Japanese Saws

Anthony Bailey explains the key features of Japanese pullsaws and demonstrates how to use them There is a vast range

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Close-up of wooden frame corner joint.

Butt Joint

You can buy Wood Joints By Machine & By Hand from Gifts to Me for only £13.50 (+P&P)! Usual RRP

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Metal hand plane on wooden box corner.

Watch Box

Wayne Bennett makes an oak box to store watches and cufflinks I was commissioned to make a watch box to

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Woodworking machine with wooden planks in workshop.

Teak Table

ANDRES CARBONELL BUILDS A HARD-WEARING OUTDOOR TABLE After moving from Argentina to the US, I was in the process of

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