Measuring with a dial caliper on workbench
Furniture & Cabinetmaking

Stack Marking

Robert Paul Gurney explains how to use ordinary tools to get extraordinarily accurate layouts. The key to accurate marking and

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White wardrobe with bi-fold doors in bedroom
Projects

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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Wooden bird sculpture on a bright background.
News

This week from the WWI

Firstly, welcome to the new Woodworkers Institute! It is still the same great resource of all thing’s woodwork, but we’ve

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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 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

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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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Wooden walking stick handle in green foliage
Projects

Lyre-shaped Thumstick

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

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