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Artist painting realistic clay bust in workshop.

Painted Carvings

Graham Thompson explores the use of acrylic paints in woodcarving ‘Sacrilege! Why?’ I’m all for showing each species of wood’s

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Woodturning detail with shavings flying off.

Turning a Goblet

In his book 30-minute Woodturning, Mark Baker tackles this challenging project Goblets are fun things to make and they come

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Brown paper bags with carved wooden utensils.

Making a Bag Clip

To properly seal a bag of crisps, biscuits, coffee and the like, to keep it fresh for longer, you can

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Glass of red wine on wooden coasters.

End Grain Coasters

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

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Woodworker using a hand planer on a wooden board.

Planing End Grain

With a sharp bench plane or block plane, you can get smooth results when planing end grain. Randy Maxey shows

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Hand-carved wooden tortoise figurine.

Carving a Tortoise

There is confusion around the world over what a tortoise is. In the UK, we call the land-dwelling shelled creature

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