Wooden Alphabet Magnets
Wooden Alphabet Magnets Novelty fridge magnets are relatively a thing of the past, but as a child of the 1990s…
Winding Sticks
Winding Sticks Peter Sefton’s students make an essential workshop aid – winding sticks One thing that always amazes me about…
Veneered Nest of Tables
Veneered Nest of Tables This nest of tables was made some years ago to complement a client’s existing furniture. Designed…
Tips for Carving Otters
Tips for Carving Otters When I was a boy, my playground was the water meadows around Winchester in Hampshire, through…
Carving a Perch and Fry Shoal
Carving a Perch and Fry Shoal Things you will need • 6mm coarse grit ‘Typhoon’ carbide burr • 3mm fine…
Carving Scrolls
Carving Scrolls Carving scrolls into furniture is a technique that has been around for many centuries because of its simplistic…
A Trumpet-inspired Chess Set
A Trumpet-inspired Chess Set Mike Darlow turns a chess set based on a trumpet-shape design The set shown above is…
Alterations after Turning
Alterations after Turning Taking your nearly completed piece and intentionally altering it may seem like heresy. Carving, piercing, painting, pyrography,…
Yew Boxes
Yew Boxes There is a yew (Taxus baccata) tree growing in the churchyard at Fortingall in Perthshire that is thought…
Identifying Shapes in Turning
Identifying Shapes in Turning I have looked at the techniques of turning various different shapes into timber, whether that be…