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We check out two new publications to add to your workshop library Forest Craft Handbook, by Richard Irvine This charming

Nic Westermann explores the issue of green wood shrinkage The main rule I have as a toolmaker is not to

The saying “two nations divided by a common language” is attributed to George Bernard Shaw, and popularised by Winston Churchill,

We look at an 18th-century carving by Masanao of Kyoto This wooden netsuke of a monkey was sold at the

Kevin Alviti unearths an archaeopteryx ‘Your boy likes dinosaurs, think you could carve a fossil?’ ‘What do you mean?’ ‘Like

Guest editor Kevin Alviti shows how to adorn furniture with hand-carved decorations Carving strapwork is a remarkably easy way to

Graham Thompson makes the case for unplanned carving ‘Free’ carving, means unplanned, seat- of-the-pants, without design or hard and fast

Alexander Thomson investigates the life and work of this German sculptor Veit Stoss (born before 1450, died 1533) was a