The Woodworker & Woodturner 2016 April

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Welcome
I
t wasn’t until I fell off the local technical college,
step-ladder for a third time I realised an important thing:
that I started to take my it’s not so much the myriad
own personal safety a bit rules and regulations
more seriously. We all know themselves that are important,
it’s a dangerous place out but by concentrating on
there, especially in the multiple aspects of H&S
woodworking world, so we throughout the working week,
really ought to look after a general awareness of
ourselves a bit more than danger is built up, and it’s this
perhaps we currently do. alertness which will do most
Here at The Woodworker to keep a body safe. Before
we do what we can to you know it, you’re making a
remind everyone of potential risk assessment in every new
dangers, but, with daily environment and at every new
exposure to machines, power task, and hopefully, looking
tools and sharp edges, it’s out for others too.
very easy to become blasé I’d like to think though that
about the risk of moving we all possess a reasonable
blades and cutters. amount of common sense
A reader alerted me and, just because we see
recently to one or two someone else do something
photos of dangerous routing questionable, doesn’t mean
practices in the last issue of we’ll follow like sheep
the magazine, and I have to ourselves. Anyway, we
hold my hand up to missing owe it to ourselves and our
this one (making kitchen nearests and dearests to
display shelves, WW March, concentrate on working safely
pages 36-40). It made me and to avoid getting hurt.
think how easy it is to not Personally I shall endeavour
notice a potential danger to identify – and deal with –
– whether it’s in real life or a any dodgy techniques that
photo on a page – because appear on a screen before
the activity itself has become me when I’m preparing future
almost too familiar. issues of our mag. Oh, and
Everyone generally groans take a bit more care next
when Health & Safety is time I’m up a ladder.
mentioned (and we’ve all
heard of some ridiculous
interpretations of otherwise
sensible guidelines), but
during my teaching at our
You can contact Mark on [email protected]
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CONTENTS What’s in store for
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WOODWORK
14 No glue here!
We take a look at the loose-
wedged mortise & tenon joint
NEXT
18 Write on!
Colin Simpson puts the finishing ISSUE
touches to his desk renovation
26 The Great Golynos Oak TOHUET M OANY 8IS ASPUREIL IS
& what it took to build
a ship of the line
John Greeves looks at the
historical significance of oak
33 Everything in its place
Michael Forster makes a
custom guitarist’s kit box 26 Precious wood:
49 Maximum suction,
minimum dust
the importance of
Roy Oxley upgrades his Startrite
MDE-HCE 139 litre industrial chip
extractor to make it even better
oak in historical
54 Heads up!
Make your own classic
carpenter’s paper hat – all you
need is a broadsheet newspaper
shipbuilding
56 Return to service
Ian Taylor gives his tatty old
workbench a new lease of life
66 A specialist tool kit
Stephen Simmons looks at the
key items in the restorer’s tool kit
70 A way with words
Dave Long makes a witty desk-
top name holder
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NEWS
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DIARY
MARCH
In brief...
15 Taster session
17 Pen making*
19 Sharpening with Tormek
hand tools*
21 Sharpening
22–23 Hollow forms with
Nick Agar
23–24 Adirondack Chair*
*Course held in Sittingbourne,
Kent
Axminster Tools & Machinery
Unit 10 Weycroft Avenue
Axminster
Devon EX13 5PH
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19–20 Sussex Trug making
20 Horse logging
Weald & Downland Open
Air Museum
Singleton, Chichester
West Sussex PO18 0EU
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20–23 Woodturning for
beginners with Mark Hancock
West Dean College
West Dean, near Chichester
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APRIL
9 Living willow chair workshop
ANY OTHER BUSINESS Like most workers, however, my own kit is an Weald & Downland Open
In a world where time is money, it’s no surprise assortment of all the big brands and the disparity Air Museum, Singleton
Chichester, West Sussex
to see all of the latest labour-saving machines between batteries is not really much of an
PO18 0EU
and power tools on display at every trade inconvenience. Regardless of which charger
Tel: [phone]
supplier’s premises across the country. Despite a battery has to go in, it’s always going to be a
Web: www.wealddown.co.uk
often alarmingly high prices, shiny new kit mild annoyance when one goes flat and needs
continues to fly off the shelves, and most retailers to be swapped for a fresh one. Of course, not 9–10 Dovetails (2 days)
I know are constantly looking to extend the floor everything can be adequately powered by Lithium- Robinson House Studio
space in their brightly lit showrooms. The choice ion, and we still need the extra power that corded Robinson Road, Newhaven
East Sussex BN9 9BL
of tools is sufficient to satisfy even the most kit can supply. And, despite the best intentions of
fastidious tradie, and, with the almost universal manufacturers, the age old tangle of trip-hazard 10–15 Windsor chairmaking
guarantee of quality that comes with products cables is still a common sight on site. West Dean College
from the big manufacturers, making a decision West Dean, near Chichester
can be a very challenging task indeed. New techniques? West Sussex PO18 0QZ
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Favourite brands I expect that most readers will have similar

Most craftspeople have their own favourite brands, observations and experiences to mine. Over time, 11–12 & 20–21* Beginners’
but, with the competition among factories to most of us have developed our own techniques woodturning (2 days)
bring out something unique – or at least greatly for speeding things up a little, and, while it’s 12 Introduction to Leigh jigs
improved and with new features – so intense, always very pleasing to get one’s hands on the *Course held in Sittingbourne,
Kent
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Axminster Tools & Machinery
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