introducing the new axminster trade series bandsaws
A bandsaw is probably the most versatile machine in any workshop and often the first machine used when preparing timber. These two bandsaws from the new Axminster Trade Series range are no exception.
The SBW4300B has a powerful motor, large capacities and is made to exacting standards. It offers excellent safety features including a braked motor and interlocked doors.…
Welcome
It never ceases to amaze me how woodworkers can produce the most stunning pieces while working in spaces not much wider than an arm span. Take Chris Alley for instance. There he is, allocated with not much more than a cubicle in a huge tithe barn – admittedly he has a share in machines in another area – making everything from staircases to sideboards with painstaking care and innovation, having found a way to…
In this month’s issue of The Woodworker…
May 2013
It’s Eastertime, yet it feels more like Christmas across the country with temperatures hovering close to zero everywhere, so we’ll forgive you if you head for the armchair by the fire this weekend to enjoy this month’s issue of your favourite magazine. Here’s what’s inside…
• All dressed up – Roger…
There’s something very personal about a workshop. It’s almost a private place, a refuge if you like, a space which is ours, to do what we like in. Shut its door and we can plan what we are going to make, how we are going to make it, with what materials and using which techniques. That’s because half the fun is thinking about doing the job.
Then there’s dreaming about tools, arranging kit on shelving, in drawers and on…
Welcome
Was there ever such an adaptable material as wood? We could be in strictly practical mode, using it like Andy King does in ply form to make shelves and drawers for his new van, to enable him to store his tools ready for site visits. Then at the other end of the scale we can only look on open-mouthed to see how Mary Ansett-Parry tempts woodworkers away from their squares and rules to become students of carving, as Dave…
Spring is just around the corner, and we have an issue chock full of goodies to tempt you out of the armchair and into the workshop. So brush away the cobwebs, clean off the rust and get cracking. Here’s what you’ve got to look forward to in our projects section…
• Ash triptych – Kerry Donovan describes how he re-invented the traditional three-panel room screen by devising a cunning concealed hinge mechanism…
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Chris Tribe, a successful maker of fine furniture for many years, was only too keen to go back to school to learn the proper way to make an instrument – actually he made two and nipped round with his camera – and tells us how he got on at West Dean College. Les Thorne turned this huge bowl from air-dried timber…