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Projects

Making a small box is a good exercise for any woodworker. You get to choose the type of joinery used

Paul Purnell makes coasters using pen blanks. Large end-grain projects are reasonably straightforward if you possess a planer/thicknesser and a

Colwin Way makes another dining table piece. This one’s a real favourite of woodturners and as a young apprentice 30

Steve Bisco carves a jewellery dish in the Arts & Crafts style The craftsmen and craftswomen of the Arts &

Mark Ivan Fortune takes you through the steps to carve this beautiful decoration. All things in the natural world, whether

Don’t do a ‘bodged’ chair repair – Ian Whittington shows you the correct way. Chairs are misused and abused by

With the aid of a few machines, Anne Briggs Bohnett and Steve Dando solve a woodworking school’s workbench problem with

Plane maker Oliver Sparks explains how the use of soot helps to seat an iron and wedge. When it comes