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    Australian Woodsmith
    PUBLISHER Ian Brooks EDITOR Chris Clark TECHNICAL EDITOR Mark Jones DESIGNER Julitta Overdijk SUBSCRIPTION MANAGER Julie Hughes INTERNATIONAL EDITOR Bryan Nelson EDITORIAL STAFF Vincent Ancona, Robert Kemp, Phil Huber, Wyatt Meyers, EXECUTIVE ART DIR
    Australian Woodsmith7 min readArchitecture
    Installing A Pre-hung Door
    Hanging a door is one of the main tasks of a trim carpenter. Trim carpentry is woodworking on tour. Like a band on the road, working outside the controlled environment of the studio (or your workshop) presents new challenges. The main challenge being
    Australian Woodsmith2 min read
    Sunshine Coast Wootha Prize Winners
    After the winners of the Tiny Treasures, Furniture and Sculpture prizes were announced the overall winner of the WOOTHA prize was made known. A very humbled and surprised Derek Calderwood made his way through the crowd in the Main Pavilion and accept
    Australian Woodsmith3 min read
    Rebuilding a Stanley No 52
    The Stanley tool company built both the No 51 chute plane and the No 52 chute board from 1909 until 1943. That makes any Stanley No 51 or 52 at least 80 years old. The plane itself has No 51 cast into its body. The plane is designed to fit into a chu
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    From The Editor Sawdust
    Driving north from Sydney to Maleny for the Sunshine Coast WOOTHA Prize ceremony had me enjoying the pockets of ancient Gondwana Rainforests that are now protected as national parks. A thought that came to mind was that wood is solid sunshine and tha
    Australian Woodsmith6 min read
    Casual Coffee Table
    Tables invite gathering. A large dining table draws family and friends to celebrate holidays and special events. A coffee table on the other hand, tones down the rituals for laid back gatherings whether coffee-based or another beverage of your choosi
    Australian Woodsmith3 min read
    Tips & Techniques
    Biscuits keep parts aligned during a glue-up and provide a bit of extra strength to a project. A biscuit joiner is an easy way to add biscuits — just turn it on and plunge. They work well when slotting ends and edges, but keeping them square on the f
    Australian Woodsmith9 min read
    Serpentine Chest
    The serpentine style has a nearly four-century-old history, dating back to one of the most immoderate periods of French design. A traditional serpentine chest often featured ornate trim and gaudy carvings, and would look far more at home in the Palac
    Australian Woodsmith2 min read
    HARDWARE & SUPPLIES SOURCES
    Timbecon stocks the popular Freud Glue Line Profile Router Bit. Carbatec stocks two styles of glue line bits, a bargain basement Arden bit that will do the job and a premium CMT bit that will last for ages. The trick with using glue line bits is to c
    Australian Woodsmith2 min read
    Maleny Wood Expo
    The Maleny Wood Expo "from seed to fine furniture" was established in 1996 and has grown to become the biggest woodworking event on the Australian calendar. One reason for this is The Sunshine Coast WOOTHA Prize of a mighty $10,000 for the piece of f
    Australian Woodsmith6 min read
    Reversible Glue Joint Bit
    Big panels can be a pain. Keeping all the pieces of a tabletop flush during a glueup can take almost every clamp in the workshop. And if that surface doesn’t end up entirely smooth, a planer won’t solve the problem. The only option then is to break o
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    Tiny Treasures
    The genius behind the Tiny Treasure competition is that it opens up the WOOTHA prize to creative makers across this wide brown land and challenges them to distil their creativity into a standard Australia Post-box and post it to Maleny. No need to ma
    Australian Woodsmith2 min read
    A New Angle on Chamfer Bits
    The router bit I use the most: a chamfer bit is the one I think about the least. On one hand that’s good because it means the bit does its job well. However, a little contemplation about your options can lead to better results in our projects. 45° IS
    Australian Woodsmith4 min read
    Cool Tools, Books and Gear
    Work Sharp manufactures a wide range of sharpening systems for both knives and axes. This little benchtop model is designed for the kitchen and not the workshop (however you can hone chisels on it with ease). The pre-set yellow angle guides at each e
    Australian Woodsmith2 min read
    Heading Screws
    Garan Hale won this year’s WOOTHA Furniture award with his magnificent Stella stool. The stool is gorgeous and really should be bought by the National Gallery and put on permanent exhibition. Other countries around the world exhibit furniture (The He
    Australian Woodsmith2 min read
    Bandsaw Blade Tooth Count
    TPI (teeth per inch) is one of three main considerations when choosing a bandsaw blade (along with blade width and tooth configuration). Fortunately, determining the best TPI for a given blade isn’t really all that complicated. But there are a couple
    Australian Woodsmith2 min read
    Letting Light Through
    Robert Howard is a Brisbane-based woodworker with a talent for carving and a passion for communicating the craft. Robert runs classes from his studio in South Brisbane (furniture making, turning, burning, instrument making as well as carving). If you
    Australian Woodsmith8 min read
    Exploring Bowl Design
    When developing the design of a bowl you need to take into account the proportions along with several options available for the overall bowl aesthetic. These include the foot, which can be turned within the existing seasoned blank, or as a second opt
    Australian Woodsmith5 min read
    Spliced Puzzle Joint
    How does this joint fit together? With a fully interlocked dovetail visible on each of its four sides, it certainly is a puzzle! Functionally, this strong joint splices the ends of two short square posts together into a longer post that might, for ex
    Australian Woodsmith6 min read
    Table Saw Cabinet
    It’s not always easy to keep an organised workshop. Whether you’ve become wrapped up in a project, unearthed the contents of a drawer looking for some long-lost tool or been stricken by a case of end-of-the-day apathy, clutter can build up quickly. F
    Australian Woodsmith6 min read
    Elegant Hall Bench
    It seems odd that the term “mid-century modern” didn’t exist before the mid-1980s. But that’s when it surfaced as the title of a book by Cara Greenberg that covered a lot of the post WWII trends in architecture, furniture and accessories. At the hear
    Australian Woodsmith3 min read
    Douglas Brooks
    Douglas Brooks is a gifted writer and teacher as well as a highly skilled maker of Japanese wooden boats. He was recently in Australia as a guest of Japanese Tools Australia. Douglas had just finished running a two-week Japanese boatbuilding workshop
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    Splining Saddle
    In Issue 157 of Australian Woodsmith we reviewed the clever Rockler Router Table Spline Jig and now often use it in the workshop when we want to quickly knock out boxes and drawers made from 12mm-thick stock. The limitation of the Rockler jig is that
    Australian Woodsmith3 min read
    Chisel Tips & Techniques
    It’s tough to think of tools that get more use than my chisels. And while it’s tempting to just pick up a chisel and start whacking, you can get better, more consistent results by using the right technique. I’ve picked out five everyday workshop task
    Australian Woodsmith5 min read
    Cool Tools, Books and Gear
    The Melbourne Tool Company (MTC) already has a range of planes in their growing stable of tools. The latest addition to the tool chest is a set of flat and curved soled spokeshaves. The first thing you notice out of the box with these spokeshaves is
    Australian Woodsmith12 min read
    Fine Tool Cabinet
    Although this cabinet is being presented as a workshop project, it could’ve easily qualified for the heirloom category. It’s not often that you see a Shaker piece like this getting such a facelift. That’s right, at its core this is a Shaker-style cab
    Australian Woodsmith3 min read
    Tips & Techniques
    Sanding oddly-shaped pieces like the cabriole leg pictured above can be a pain (even more so than an average sanding session). Matching the contours can be difficult and time-consuming, but this sanding belt makes hitting those curves much easier. Th
    Australian Woodsmith7 min read
    Crafting a Japanese River Boat
    Japanese Tools Australia sponsored the internationally renowned Douglas Brooks to share his insights and skills in a five-day workshop that saw the planks to the left woven together with simple tools and deep insight into a watertight Japanese river
    Australian Woodsmith3 min read
    All Dust is Dangerous
    Building the Japanese river boat over five days in the Japanese Tools Australia workshop was a real hoot. JTA also shares their workspace with Best Abrasives. At the end of a hard day’s work, I got talking to Ryan Benson from Best Abrasives about the

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