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QM09 Nov./Dec. ’21
• Jennie Alexander shares the devices and jigs she has used for making chairs
• Laura Mays reports on James Krenov’s influence on making wooden planes
• Barbara Roberts makes a box to inspire entrants to the Quercus Young Woodworker of the Year competition 2022
• Robin Gates turns to recycling wood, alongside other woodworkers
• Rex Krueger finds a vintage toolbox at his family farm
• Scott Wynn reveals the secrets of his long-lasting shooting boards
• Charles Mak has some unusual cramping tips & techniques
• Lake Erie Toolworks customers share how they have improved their workbenches by fitting vice accessories
• Kyle Barton introduces his spindle drilling jig for chair makers
• Sean Hellman says you don’t have to throw bandsaw blades away, and shows you how
• John Lloyd upgrades a cheap and not-so cheerful marking gauge
QM08 Sept./Oct. ’21
• Rex Krueger shows how he makes his own tools
• The Attic Woodworker on woodwork in a small room overlooking Verona, Italy
• Barbara Roberts upgrades her bench with a planing stop
• Robin Gates questions the sawing techniques of Ernest Joyce, the guru of woodwork
• Jeff Lefkowitz makes chairs with long-lasting joints. Find out how he does it
• Richard Wile demonstrates how to sharpen a drawknife
• Debs Hart renovates a wooden spokeshave
• Henrie van Rooij is inspired by Jögge Sundqvist to make hooks for tools in his workshop
• Michelle Mateo explains how she makes bowls on a pole lathe
• Pete Moorhouse is introducing woodwork to early years schools
• John Lloyd compares Western and Japanese saws, and shows how he cuts tenons with either
• Rex Krueger, Paul Sellers and Sean Hellman are reviewed
• Claire Minihan answers our questions about making travishers
QM07 July/Aug. ’21
• Richard Wile sets up a sharpening station
• Robin Gates repairs wooden grooving and ploughing planes
• Masashi Kutsuwa recalls how a group. of novices made a Van Gogh chair
• Derek Jones makes a Japanese toolbox
• Rex Krueger builds a portable low bench
• Sean Hellman repairs a snapped bandsaw blade
• Kohtaro Mori reveals his beautiful chairs and bowls
•Steve Schuler decorates the wooden pipes he made last issue
• John Lloyd shows how to sharpen in-cannel gouges
• Doug Stowe recalls his time with Bill Coperthwaite
QM06 May/June ’21
• David Johnson shows how to cane a chair the Danish way
• Robin Gates makes a sliding lid toolbox
• Gerwyn Lewis explores the medieval way of storing tools
• Dylan Iwakuni makes a sheath to protect chisel edges
• Masashi Kutsuwa reveals Japanese splitting techniques
• Derek Jones reports on shooting boards
• Mike Abbott recalls the early days of greenwoodworking
• Rex Krueger makes a fish-head marking gauge
• Steve Schuler decorates the pipes he started last issue
• Phoebe Everill meets the HNT Gordon Tools team
• Nick Gibbs uses PU adhesives
QM05 Mar./April ’21
• Making stave baskets The skills and making of a heritage craft with John Williamson
• The anatomy of drawers Derek Jones compares slips and grooves
• Planemaking Learn about making an 18th Century plane with Richard Arnold
• Scrolls saws v coping saws Robin Gates chooses a simple saw for shaping
• The history of axes Brett McCleod reveals the originals of the American axe
• Bern Chandley Phoebe Everill meets the modern bodger
• Drew Langsner’s Shaving Horses Than & Now
• Rex Krueger reveals history of Gage planes
• Japanese Joints Tim Brown on making a complex Castle joint
QM04 Jan/Feb ‘df21
• Women and Children First Jenny Bower takes to
woodwork and becomes a chair maker inspiring & her daughter, as do other woodworkers
• Fitting Drawer Runners Derek Jones on joints
• The Red Blue Chair The comfy uncomfy 20thC icon
• Making Slöjd Coathooks Jögge Sundqvist’s project
• The Better Bench Hook Robin Gates upgrades
• How to Cleave Mike Abbott’s greenwoodworking tips
QM03 Nov/Dec ’20
• The Modern Shaving Horse Mike Abbott shows how to make a quick-build clamp from planed timber
• The Better Planing Stop Robin Gates at the workbench
• Top 10 Spokeshaves Favourite shaves of readers
• Retiring Tool Chest Richard Arnold’s old toolbox
• History of Slöjd Jögge Sundqvist on a Swedish culture
• Steam Bending Windsor Workshop special jigs
QM02 Autumn 2020
• The Kilted Woodworker explores beading tools
• Drew Langsner completes the ladle he designed last issue
• Mitsuru Hochi explains how he makes his unique chair seating
• Robin Gates contests the traditional style of splayed sawhorse
• What defines creativity by hand asks the Arbortech Woodcarver’s inventor Kevin Inkster
QM01 Summer 2020
• Photo-story of Richard Arnold’s recreating a handrail from the Titanic only with traditional tools
• Drew Langsner explains how to design a carved ladle, inspired be Willë Sundqvist
• Mark Harrell of Bad Axe Saws straightens a crooked backsaw by re-tensioning the toothline and plate
• Find out out to rehandle a hatched with Sean Hellman
• James Mursell of Windsor Workshop compares chair designs for looks and comfort