The Woodworker & Good Woodworking – September 2022

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Les Thorne's coloured and textured bowl in birch plywood

PROJECTS & TURNING

ELEGANT CARRIAGE CLOCK
Peter Dunsmore’s elegant carriage clock is simple to make, using little timber and a few router cutters

LOOKING AT LELLÓ
Winner of our recent Liberon competition, designer-maker Ian Burnell takes us through the steps involved in making his critically acclaimed ‘Lelló’ cabinet, from ideation to concept development

TURNED SIDE PLATE & LIDDED PLATTER
Continuing the utilitarian theme, Andrew Hall uses more storm-felled ash to create further items designed for drinking and eating

THE THINGAMIJIG
Mike Riley challenges himself to try something different and ends up making a handy item

COLOURED & TEXTURED PLYWOOD BOWL
Les Thorne shows you how to turn a bowl from plywood and give it a shiny finish

GEORGIAN DOLLS' HOUSE
Brian Barber shares details of the techniques used for the construction of a 1:12 scale Georgian dolls’ house that he built for his Granddaughter

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Choosing the right chisel is an important start, as John Bullar shows in his next article on beginning furniture making

TECHNICAL

MORTISE & TENON JOINTS
John Bullar moves on to discussing mortise & tenon joints and how they’re traditionally used in furniture making, beginning with hand tool methods before looking at a few powered techniques

TIMBER TERMS – PART 43
Peter Bishop finally reaches the end of his long-running series and finishes off with various terms including woolly grain, xylem and zebrano

CARVE YOUR OWN WOOD SPIRIT
Iain Whittington shows how to carve a caricature of a face often glimpsed in the wild of the forest, or more often now as the domesticated spirit of the garden

SPOKESHAVES
Windsor chairmaker James Mursell explains why the spokeshave is his favourite workshop tool

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Vintage lawn bowls in lignum vitae

FEATURES

ARCHIVE

Dipping into The Woodworker of July 1919, Robin Gates discovers how to turn a shapely leg and recalls a close encounter with a chuck key’

ERIK WOLKEN IN PROFILE
Through building functional sculpture – work that serves both a sculptural aesthetic and utilitarian function – furniture maker Erik Wolken seeks to create rhythm and poetry in every piece he makes

IT'S A WOODY WORLD
As Paul Greer shows, wood really does permeate our everyday life, not only in its use as a raw material, but also in terms of cultural references and phrases

TAKE 5
This month’s hand-picked selection comprises various contemporary, unique pieces that catch the eye and spark the imagination

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Using the Trend T18S/BJ cordless biscuit jointer, you can clamp the workpiece vertically – with fence – or flat on the bench – without fence

ON TEST
Trend T18S/BJ cordless biscuit jointer

Woodpeckers Paolini pocket rules

Ryobi R18F ONE+ fan

Thorex 31-712R hammer

Bad Axe saws

DOUBLE WIN!

This month, we have two competitions for you to enter:

COMPETITION 1: Win 1 of 2 pairs of ISOtunes LINK 2.0 ear defenders – worth £99.99 per pair – see page 23 for details or click here

COMPETITION 2: Win 1 of 50 SanderCards – the ultra thin hand-sanding tool – see page 33 for details or click here

YOUR FAVOURITES
As well as all this, you can also expect to find your usual favourite pages, including news, welcome, marketplace, next month, letters and readers’ tips, plus much more.

We hope you enjoy the September 2022 issue of The Woodworker & Good Woodworking, which is now on sale! Pick up your copy today, or why not subscribe?

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