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Tegan Foley  |  Jan 05, 2023  |  0 comments
Sean Healy made this simply-designed table to demonstrate his new joint-making skills
Tegan Foley  |  Jan 05, 2023  |  0 comments
Sean Healy made this simply-designed table to demonstrate his new joint-making skills
Tegan Foley  |  Aug 26, 2022  |  0 comments
Windsor chairmaker James Mursell explains why the spokeshave is his favourite workshop tool
Tegan Foley  |  May 25, 2022  |  0 comments

Andrew Lawton – one of our three expert judges for the Alan Peters Furniture Award 2022 – presents an exhibition piece made using a very unique material

Tegan Foley  |  Mar 16, 2022  |  0 comments
Despite YouTube being a fantastic woodworking resource, it’s easy to be misled by what you see. In response to a ‘myth busting’ video on end-grain gluing, Jeremy Broun felt compelled to reveal his half-century experience of glue-only joints using some of his most iconic pieces as examples
Mark SBD  |  Sep 05, 2017  |  0 comments

An ABC of Basic Dovetailing

Our step-by-step guide to an essential array of dovetailing techniques

Steven Winter  |  Dec 10, 2014  |  0 comments

Corner solutions .... Bernard Greatrix's Oak cabinet

 

Steven Winter  |  Sep 01, 2013  |  0 comments

Choosing suitable jointing methods for your projects can be like gingerly entering a minefield of booby traps but we hope that GW’s guide will make your decisions a little more bomb proof. 

Ralph Laughton  |  May 12, 2010  |  0 comments
Join Ralph as he talks through what to look out for when buying and selecting timber for use in furniture grade projects.
Ralph Laughton  |  May 11, 2010  |  0 comments
earn how to create face sides and edges using a combination of basic handtools – fundamental to the process of squaring up wood.
Ralph Laughton  |  May 10, 2010  |  0 comments
Having created the face side and edge in the previous video Ralph now progresses to thicknessing the wood with basic handtools.
Ralph Laughton  |  May 09, 2010  |  0 comments
The first three episodes in this series concentrated on the use of hand tools. In this final instalment Ralph turns his attention to squaring and thicknessing material with machines.
Ian Taylor  |  Nov 21, 2008  |  0 comments
Nowadays we take drawers very much for granted. They appear everywhere in the house – in the kitchen, the bedroom, the study and the workshop. They come in different sizes and designs. Some have mechanical slides and others run on wooden supports (called runners). But they all have one common feature: they are basically open-topped boxes that can be accessed separately and conveniently. Drawers in history It wasn’t always this…

Mike Riley  |  Nov 21, 2008  |  0 comments
The most important part of any project is probably the initial stock preparation: without proper preparation no other part of the project can happen, it’s as simple as that. When it comes to preparation you have three options: buy PAR timber, which is relatively expensive; buy rough sawn timber and process it using machines; or break out the hand planes and do it yourself. My preference is for the latter because it’s cheaper, safer…

The Woodworker  |  Nov 02, 2008  |  0 comments
The spline dovetail is a joint that can be used both for strength and decoration. It looks especially attractive on small carcases and is very popular with boxmakers. It’s simple to make, and the only tools needed are a router fi tted with a dovetail cutter, and a tilting arbour table saw. However, you do need to make a simple jig fi rst. This can be modifi ed to suit your particular router/ guidebush combination. The design here uses a…

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