If you can't find Good Woodworking in your local newsagent, you can order a copy direct from 0844 848 88 22We kick off 2012 with an issue of Good Woodworking that offers something for everyone - including a fantastic competition to win one of ten sets of Bahco saw systems worth £100 each. One time GW snapper Justin Lambert jets off to Oregon in the American north-west to meet uncompromising furniture maker Gary Rogowski to hear the trials…
If you can't find Good Woodworking in your local newsagent, you can order a copy direct from 0844 848 88 22
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Scottish designer-maker Angus Ross is one of woodworking’s true leading lights
PROJECTS
Table with oysters: Mark Griffiths embellishes his coopered low table with Queen Anne-inspired oyster marquetry
Chest of drawers: Brian Barber shows you how to take liberties with design in this…
The Bleeding Yew of Nevern weeps a blood-like red resin-like substance that apparently baffles botanists. Folk tales and legends abound. One explanation is that the tree weeps in sympathy with Christ’s wounds. Another says that a man was hanged in the tree and a third that it weeps, "until a Welshman is once again Lord of the castle on the hill". It is one of trees to visit on the new Great Yews of Wales Tree Trail a downloadable…
A
woodland which was recently felled to provide timber for the forestry industry
has won an award for the way in which it has been carefully re-planted with
trees for a future generation.
The new
trees planted at Wentwood Forest, near Chepstow, by Forestry Commission Wales
in 2009 have established very quickly meaning chemical weed control measures
have been kept to a minimum.
The Commission’s
Wales…