June 2022

Australian Wood Review

Australia’s premier woodworking and woodcraft magazine.

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Editor’s Letter
I can’t help thinking that Beyond Ordinary: Contemporary Women Makers is an exhibition that we should never have had to have, and yet it is necessary proclaim out loud what I’m sure everyone knows. There are lots of women who make beautiful things fr
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Australian Wood Review
PRINT AND ONLINE EDITOR: Linda Nathan linda@woodreview.com.au CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Raf Nathan, Robert Howard Richard Vaughan, Neil Erasmus CONTRIBUTORS: James Brook, Damion Fauser, Jugo Ilic, Charles Mak, Terry Martin, Troy McDonald, Darren Oates, A
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Drilling Down
As makers we often settle on tools we already have, but twist drills, spade bits, and dodgy countersinks are not necessarily the best accessories for fine, detailed work. Let’s look at what’s available to consider using on your next project (photo 1)
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Carbatec Cryogenic Turning Tools
$389 This set of tools looks very impressive when it is opened. It includes a 28mm roughing gouge, 19mm flat skew chisel, 12mm spindle gouge, 12mm bowl gouge, 19mm diamond parting tool and 19mm round nose scraper. The tools are 170–220mm in length an
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Maker Of The Year Awards Presented By Carbatec
JONESCATEGORIES (open to amateurs & pros) • Tables, Chairs & Desks• Chests, Cabinets & Shelving• Bowls & Boxes• Art & Objects• Student• WorldFor $23,000 IN CASH AND PRIZES • $10,000 worth of Carbatec gift cards • $10,000 in cash • Felder FAT 300 work
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Melbourne Tool Company Handplanes
$185 The recently formed Melbourne tool Company has just entered the highly competitive field of handplane manufacturing. Their tools are designed in Melbourne, but made in China. Once this may have caused alarm, but most people know many excellent p
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Henry Eckert 60-1/2 Low Angle Block Plane
$295 How exciting to see new Australian made tools coming onto the market like this one from South Australia based Henry Eckert Toolworks. I have a thing for block planes and my first thought on viewing the Eckert with its gleaming gold body was that
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Self-Locking Storage
A client wants to cellar thousands of bottles of wine in a small space. Wine racks must store bottles efficiently, horizontally and preferably individually. The joinery process has to be quick because there are so many joints. Rack designs must be ro
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Festool FS-WA Guide Rail Angle Stop
The potential and functionality of this new product in the Festool stable of accessories is apparent as soon as you take it out of the box. Designed to be attached to the FS guide rail system to allow for accurate and secure cutting of angles, I’ve u
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A Maker’s Maker
It’s hard to imagine someone who is more genetically predisposed to being a woodworker. From school days he knew it’s what he wanted to do. He looks forward to and generates his own challenges – even mistakes are a source of joy because they can lead
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An Easy To Make Sharpening System
For my day to day sharpening, I prefer to use synthetic Japanese ‘splash-and-go’ waterstones. These stones offer fantastic performance in a user-friendly lay-up. Unlike traditional Japanese waterstones that need soaking, the splash-and-go type just n
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Beyond Ordinary
About two years ago Ruth Thompson, Dale Dryen and Eliza Maunsell, all graduates of the Sturt School for Wood in Mittagong, attended a national exhibition of woodwork. Noting that only two of the exhibitors were women and knowing there are many more w
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Turned and Tapered
The world of fine furniture making can be a mysterious land where precisely cut joinery meets carefully selected timbers. It can be world that requires a well equipped workshop filled with hand tools and machines. But take a step back and consider th
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Heart Of The Tree
There is nothing so complex as simplicity when applied to crafted forms with lines that flow perfectly from every viewpoint. The 70 pieces shown as Heart of the Tree are the work of a master of his craft. They represent the latest offerings of a care
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Five Bandsaw Shortcuts
The bandsaw is a reliable workhorse and companion machine to the tablesaw in furniture making. Many woodworkers use it to resaw, make curve cuts, cut circles or even make duplicates with a template-guided jig. In this article, I will share a few tech
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The Art of Making
A visit to the Studio Woodworkers Australia (SWA) A website says the organisation is ‘a community celebrating fine craftsmanship’. Like any community, members are diverse in their specific interests, backgrounds and their chosen pathway under the umb
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Chippendale’s Marquetry Team
It may sound superfluous, but in this digital backlit world there can still be a certain sensuality to holding and leafing through a book. I found myself feeling the thickness and matt texture of the paper, then marvelling at the sight of a hardcover
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Wood Diary
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Tiny Tool Treasure
For the first time in more than 30 years, I decided to enter a competition – the ‘Tiny Treasures’ section of the Wootha Prize associated with the Maleny Wood Expo. I reckoned a set of miniature working tools should qualify as ‘treasures’ (at least to
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Riding the Shave Horse
The Democratic chair is designed to be made with a small number of hand tools, hence democratic. If a student learns this chair, they can make more complex Windsor chairs. ‘It wouldn’t be a Windsor chair without a bit of blood on it’, Jon said, as we

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