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25/09/2025

Woodworking Crafts issue 96 is out now!

In issue 96 of Woodworking Crafts you’ll find plenty to inspire and inform your crafts. In Projects, Charles Mak makes a folding step ladder; Kev Alviti builds a display board for his local church; Mitch Peacock makes a simple clamp rack; Mark Palma makes some storage to protect his newly sharpened tablesaw blades; Thomas Eddolls makes a bespoke jewellery box; Steve Bisco carves an oak panel in the style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh; Derek Jones begins the restoration of an antique cabinet; Joseph Chalovich uses wood scraps to make a set of clocks; Fred and Julie Byrne use their scrollsaw to make a toy samurai; and Andy Coates experiments with turning an illuminated light bulb.

In our Techniques articles, Anna Muzzolon demonstrates the hair-on-hair pyrography technique; and Anthony Bailey shares his techniques for accurate marking and measuring;

In Features, we meet Sussex-based green woodworker, chairmaker and author Jason Mosseri.

All this and more in issue 96 of Woodworking Crafts!
✨ Woodworking Crafts issue 96 is available to buy now – see link in bio.
📸 Photo: Andrew Perris

18/09/2025

Woodcarving magazine issue 209 is out now!

Issue 209 of Woodcarving magazine is filled with a host of great articles for you. Our Guest Editor, Graham Thompson, welcomes you to the issue; and makes a relief carving of a hare.

In our Projects section, Jean-Jacques Frézouls sculpts a bas-relief representing St Padré Pio; Dave Western decorates a breadboard with a peacock design; Zoë Gertner carves onions and shallots in the round; Kev Alviti makes a dice tower for board games; John Samworth creates a dreamscape; and Steve Bisco carves a low-relief panel in the18th-century Neo-Classical style.

In Techniques, Peter Benson introduces relief carving; Dave Western demonstrates the craft of kolrosing; and Christine Deussen-McCall explains how to carve gourds.

In Features, we talk to Angel Nanchev , who specialises in traditional and modern ornamental woodcarving; and we take a closer look at two pieces by master carver Grinling Gibbons.

We also have updates from the carving community and a peek at our next issue.

All this and more in Woodcarving magazine 209!

✨ Woodcarving issue 209 is available to buy now – see link in bio.
📍 ©Angel Nanchev

12/09/2025

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11/09/2025

Furniture & Cabinetmaking issue 327 is out now!

In issue 327 of Furniture & Cabinetmaking you’ll find plenty to inspire and inform your furniture making. In our Projects section, Israel Martin builds a small pine bench with an ebonised frame; Giuseppe Deepak Benti makes a side table using only hand tools and no glue; Robert Webb makes a Craftsman-style cherry wood side table; Mitch Peacock repairs a Queen Anne-style dressing stool; Dave Clement makes a decorative box with Japanese-style inlay; and Giacomo Malaspina makes a comfortable workshop stool.

In Techniques, John Bullar shows you how to make a row of strong dovetails on the corner between boards; Michael T Collins demonstrates box construction; and Mark Palma shares his tips for buying and using Japanese chisels.

In Features, we discover the Blum products that bring function and creativity to drawers; we review the first Sussex Craft Week; and SawStop Europe introduce the much-anticipated Professional Cabinet Saw.

We also have profiles of talented designer-makers Greg Klassen; Jason Mosseri; and Lucas Neves.

All this and more in issue 327 of Furniture & Cabinetmaking!

✨ Furniture & Cabinetmaking issue 326 is available to buy now – see link in bio.
📸 Cover Photo: Greg Klassen, Matthew Bergsma

04/09/2025

Woodturning issue 413 is out now!

In issue 413 of Woodturning magazine we have lots for you to enjoy, beginning with our Guest Editor, Mike Stafford, who welcomes you to the issue; and creates a Roman-style flask and stopper.

In Projects, Sue Harker turns a beautiful bulbous shape from a piece of laburnum; Rick Rich makes a goblet with eight captive rings; Andrew Potocnik creates a Tasmanian myrtle arched box; George Watkins turns a doughnut-shaped amboyna burr box; and James and Rita Duxbury make a whimsical cat and mouse.

In our Techniques section, Les Symonds explores different ways of making w**d pots; Richard Findley looks at fitting box lids; Andy Coates shares his techniques for turning spheres; Mark Palma demonstrates ways to make and prepare bowl blanks; and Kurt Hertzog answers readers’ questions.

In Features, George Watkins explains how he is drawn to creating unusual forms and flowing lines in his highly decorative work; we meet Sussex-based green woodworker, chairmaker and author Jason Mosseri; and Pete Moncrieff-Jury discusses age versus experience.

We also have a sneak peek at our next issue, updates from the turning community and news from the Worshipful Company of Turners.

All this and more in Woodturning 413!

📍Cover photo: ©George Watkins

01/09/2025

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29/08/2025

From struggling student to master maker. 🛠️

Jamie Ward turned a rocky start in woodwork into a decades-long career shaping both furniture and futures. After years teaching the craft, he's now back at the bench full-time — still guided by the lessons of the classroom.

Read the brilliant story on the Woodworkers Institute.

22/08/2025

🪵🔪 Thinking of trying woodcarving? Start small with the right wood and the right grip. Whether you're slicing with precision or roughing out your shape, safety and control are everything.

Tap into master-carver Peter Benson's wisdom on the Woodworkers Institute.

18/08/2025

From the National Gallery of Ireland to The National Park, Connemara

transFORMation. A body of work by Angela Williams

This body of work is made from tongue & grooved flooring originally from the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin.

Angela has made these works of art using her skills of woodturning, painting and gilding. Using a traditional ancient method, gilding incorporates the use of rabbit skin glue, gesso and bole before laying the 24carat gold leaf.
Gesso is comprised of whiting, (white chalk/calcium carbonate) with rabbit skin glue.
Bole is a particular type of clay which is also mixed with rabbit skin glue and applied on top of the gesso. The gold leaf is a thin sheet typically around 0.1 micrometres thick and usually used for decorative purposes. It is a laborious method and time consuming, but she believes, well worth the effort.

Angela wanted to highlight the very useful method of joinery that is tongue and groove, traditionally most often used in flooring, wainscoting and ceiling boards. The humble tongue usually encased in the groove, is traditionally used to join together a system of interlocking projections. In these works, it has been made a feature of using gouache or gold leaf.

The pieces also incorporate gilded Acorn cups.

These are the vessels in which the Oak tree seeds are housed until they are released from the tree and drop to the ground, continuing their life cycle. They were gathered from the grounds of Connemara National Park and Kylemore Abbey.

Every 4 years a mast year occurs, this is a reference to a phenomenon where some trees produce a large, synchronised drop of fruits or nuts in a given year. Angela collected Acorns & their cups during such a year.

In their previous life as tongue & groove flooring, Angela liked the idea that people once stood on these boards, looking at works of art in the National Gallery, Dublin.

Now recreating them as works of art in their own right, she invites you look at these reclaimed pieces and ponder.

📅 Opening 22 August, 5.30pm
📍Connemara National Park, Letterfrack

15/08/2025

🪵 What have you been turning?

Roger Upchurch crafted this beautiful wedding goblet for his granddaughter — complete with two symbolic rings of love. 💍✨

Got a project to share? Email us at [email protected]

08/08/2025

🌳 Europe’s Tree of the Year 2025
Poland’s “Heart of the Dalkowskie Hills” — a 300-year-old beech tree has won this year’s European Tree of the Year competition!

This beloved tree has hosted concerts, Masses, reading circles, and even wish-making rituals with peanuts.

Read the story on the Woodworkers Institute.

07/08/2025

Woodturning issue 412 is out now!

In issue 412 of Woodturning magazine we have lots for you to enjoy, beginning with our Guest Editor, James Duxbury, who welcomes you to the issue; and turns two intersecting spheres.

In Projects, Andrew Potocnik creates a beautiful box from blackwood; Les Symonds makes the dice and a storage box for last month’s Beetle Drive project; Sue Harker turns a vase with a narrow neck; Les Symonds makes a clamp for drilling large holes into turned items; Andy Coates turns a large hollow form from the much-maligned leylandii; George Watkins turns a highly figured lace sheoak dish; Rick Rich makes a set of sewing tools for darning and mending; and Mark Palma turns a stylish food serving board.

In our Techniques section, Mike Stafford shows how to use multi-axis detailing to decorate a platter; Richard Findley starts a new series on box making by looking at the tools needed for hollowing boxes; and Kurt Hertzog answers readers’ questions.

In Features, Alexander Thomson explores the craft of pole lathe turning with Geoff Hannis; Mark Palma reports from the American Association of Woodturners 39th International Symposium; we pay tribute to the inspirational Nick Agar; and Pete Moncrieff-Jury contemplates the influences of turners at local and international levels.

We also have a sneak peek at our next issue, updates from the turning community and news from the Worshipful Company of Turners.

All this and more in Woodturning 412!

✨ Woodturning issue 412 is available to buy now – see link in bio.
📍 Cover photo: ©Geoff Hannis

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