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Brown Ivory
Berchemia discolor
Note the picture is for illustration only
Air and Kiln Dried.
The wood is a red brown which is faintly pink tinged, occasionally with a blackish streak.
It is a hardish timber with an even texture that is medium to fine. It turns well and absorbs most finishing products well.
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Knob Thorn
Vachellia erioloba
Note the picture is for illustration only
Air and kiln dried.
Also known as Giraffe Thorn due to the way they (carefully) eat the seed pods from this tree.
The timber is reddish brown with a very fine, dense texture. This wood is better for for turning and fine detail.
Ideal for boxes and spindle work.
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Leadwood
Combretum imberbe
Note the picture is for illustration only
Air and kiln dried.
This timber is the hardest wood we offer, so hard that Africans used it to make blades for their hoes before metal became available.
So a timber for sharp tools, which will turn and sand to a lustrous finish and accept all finishing products but does not absorb oils very well.The heartwood is dark brown in colour...
Panga Panga
Millettia stuhlmannii
Note the picture is for illustration only
Air and kiln dried.
Looks like Wenge, turns like Wenge albeit a little harder but is not Wenge!
With its dark colours and rich parenchyma bands, Panga brings a touch of the exotic to finished pieces. The heartwood is dark chocolate brown with paler broad bands.
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Tamboti
Spirostachys africana
Note the picture is for illustration only
Air and Kiln Dried.
Also known as African Sandalwood, this timber will scent your workshop for ages with a sweet and persistent aroma.
Looks similar to Bocote - dark brown or black streaks running through coffee coloured timber but is more dense. Some blanks will contain patches of pale sapwood. Turns and carves well.
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Wild Mango
Cordyla africana
Note the picture is for illustration only
Air and kiln dried.
A stunning deep cream coloured wood with golden undertones that creates its own ambience. The heartwood has a colour yellow brown to nut brown with a subtle but attractive grain pattern.
It is used for furniture, flooring, turning and carving and often used for the making of African drums. Works to a great finish.
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Quercus Magazine - Winter 2023
Quercus Magazine, QM21, Winter 2023 - Summary of Contents
The Chairmakers Toolbox is introducing woodwork to a whole new audience, and this issue founder Aspen Golann tells us how they have won more than $100,000 in awards to do so. Then there’s a report from Handworks 2023 in Iowa, possibly
the most important show for woodworkers who love hand-tools. And we have practical things too. You...
Benchcrafted Mag-Blok Cherry
We've had our eye on these Mag-Bloks by Benchcrafted for years and years, but sadly they'd previously had an agent in the UK. Thankfully, things have changed and we can import the Mag-Bloks alongside their wonderful bench hardware.
The Mag-Bloks are equally fantastic in both the home and the workshop. We use them here in the shop to display bench chisels, and a couple of us have them in...
Benchcrafted Mag-Blok Maple
We've had our eye on these Mag-Bloks by Benchcrafted for years and years, but sadly they'd previously had an agent in the UK. Thankfully, things have changed and we can import the Mag-Bloks alongside their wonderful bench hardware.
The Mag-Bloks are equally fantastic in both the home and the workshop. We use them here in the shop to display bench chisels, and a couple of us have them in...
Benchcrafted Mag-Blok Oak
We've had our eye on these Mag-Bloks by Benchcrafted for years and years, but sadly they'd previously had an agent in the UK. Thankfully, things have changed and we can import the Mag-Bloks alongside their wonderful bench hardware.
The Mag-Bloks are equally fantastic in both the home and the workshop. We use them here in the shop to display bench chisels, and a couple of us have them in...
Benchcrafted Mag-Blok Walnut
We've had our eye on these Mag-Bloks by Benchcrafted for years and years, but sadly they'd previously had an agent in the UK. Thankfully, things have changed and we can import the Mag-Bloks alongside their wonderful bench hardware.
The Mag-Bloks are equally fantastic in both the home and the workshop. We use them here in the shop to display bench chisels, and a couple of us have them in...
Cricket Tables
by Derek Jones
Simplicity, necessity and ingenuity are the three key principles for making cricket tables. This traditional three legged table exists in a variety of forms and woods – no two are the same. So making them follows an organic process – your tools and materials dictate your approach and your cricket table’s final form.
Derek introduces the form, then teaches you...
Kutzall 3 Piece Fine 1/4'' Burr Kit
Kutzall burrs are the perfect companions for your rotary carving tools.
Made in the USA, Kutzall burrs provide a great combination of material removal and surface quality. Efficient with or against the grain, these burrs have a long wear life.
Their outstanding performance on a wide variety of materials to include wood, plastic, rubber, fibreglass and soft stone.
NOTE: These burrs should only...
Selection of 5 Greetings Cards - Set 4
This set of 5 greetings cards includes the following:
Fur & Ferns (15cm x 15cm)
Nene Valley Owl (DL 21cm x 10cm)
Dragon Under Willows (15cm x 15cm)
Mother's Love (15cm x 15cm)
Coming & Going (15cm x 15cm)
All images from Fiona Kingdon's fabulous creations.
Blank inside for your own greeting.
Printed on 300gsm card
Selection of 5 Greetings Cards - Set 1
This set of 5 greetings cards includes the following:
Breeze
Fisherman & Geese
Kingfisher
Bucket & Spade
Any Port in a Storm
All images from Fiona Kingdon's fabulous creations.
Blank inside for your own greeting.
All 5 are DL (21cm 10cm) and are printed on 300gsm card
Lie-Nielsen Drawbore Pins
Drawboring is a great way to make a strong mechanical joint. A wooden pin is hammered through slightly offset holes in the two pieces, and pulls the joint together. You use Drawbore Pins to pull the joint together first (with some force and a twisting motion). This eases the edges of the hole, making driving the wood pin easier. You can also disassemble the joint if you want to work on the fit some...
Mini Da Vinci Bombard
The latest additions to the Leonardo Line of kits is a series of laser-cut mini kits. Smaller than the main Leonardo kits. Easier to make – in about 1/2 an hour they look great on the shelf and also work!
This one of 3 hurling kits, the Bombard, Catapult and Crossbow.
Made of mdf with a wood grained paper covering, they snap together easily and hold together nicely with a drop of glue in...
Mini Da Vinci Catapult
The latest additions to the Leonardo Line of kits is a series of laser-cut mini kits. Smaller than the main Leonardo kits. Easier to make – in about 1/2 an hour they look great on the shelf and also work!
This one of 3 hurling kits, the Bombard, Catapult and Crossbow.
Made of mdf with a wood grained paper covering, they snap together easily and hold together nicely with a drop of glue in...
Mini Da Vinci Crossbow
The latest additions to the Leonardo Line of kits is a series of laser-cut mini kits. Smaller than the main Leonardo kits. Easier to make – in about 1/2 an hour they look great on the shelf and also work!
This one of 3 hurling kits, the Bombard, Catapult and Crossbow.
Made of mdf with a wood grained paper covering, they snap together easily and hold together nicely with a drop of glue in...
The Stick Chair Book: Revised Edition
By Christopher Schwarz
From the outside, it seems like you need to harvest special wood from the forest, buy a bunch of exotic tools, master a lot of crazy angles, and learn high-tolerance joinery to make a chair that is comfortable, strong and approaches sculpture.
The truth is that everyday woodworkers – farmers, amateurs and people in other trades – made wonderful chairs using...
Blue Spruce Coping Saw Fret Blade Adapter Kit
This simple kit will allow you to use fret or jewelers saw blades with your Blue Spruce Ultimate Coping Saw. Fret saw blades can be ordered in many sizes and allow very fine and detailed sawing.
Blue Spruce Optima Chisel Plane
The new Blue Spruce Optima Chisel Plane fills a unique void in your tool collection. It serves as a master of dexterity in the places we can't. Reach for it anytime you need to trim plugs, end grain, pare away joinery surfaces, clean glue squeeze-out, and more. It thrives in wide-open plywood projects and confined casework. The elevated handle allows the iron to lie flat - a situational advantage...
Blue Spruce Ultimate Coping Saw
Coping saws have always had a dilemma. Curved cuts go great until the frame gets in the way. Some of the better saws on the market address the problem by allowing the blade to pivot, but most require you to take the tension off the blade for adjustments or limit the travel to 90 degrees (or less). Blue Spruce Toolworks Ultimate Coping Saw frees you from these limitations with full 360-degree rotation...
Blue Spruce Ultimate Coping Saw with Fret Blade Adapter
This set includes the Blue Spruce Ultimate Coping Saw and the Fret Blade Adapter. The adapter will allow you to work with 5-1/8" smooth end scroll saw blades as well, there’s an optional set of blade clamp adapters included that extend the blade holders and provide a clamp appropriate for the smooth ends of scroll saw blades.
Blue Spruce Honing Guide
The new Blue Spruce Honing Guide turns the traditional honing guide design upside down and clamps the chisel from above, rather than below. And, while most honing guides have the roller directly under the clamp, the Blue Spruce Honing Guide wheels are offset. The Honing Guide will fit chisels and plane blades from 1/8" to 1-1/2", while Blue Spruce Bench Chisels, Butt Chisels, Dovetail Chisels...
Blue Spruce Optima Dovetail Chisels - Set of 4
The unique blade shape of these Dovetail Chisels makes them perfect for light chopping, paring and precision fitting of your finest joinery. The 4" long, 1/8" thin blade is sized just right for close-up, intimate work, allowing clear visibility of your material. The unique concave side bevels allow the chisel to pare into the tightest corners of dovetail joints.
All Blue Spruce Toolworks...
Blue Spruce Optima Fishtail Chisels - Curly Maple
Optima Fishtail Chisels handle the most critical paring cuts in tricky spots with extremely limited access. The prime example is half-blind dovetail sockets, but once you've added these exquisite chisels to your toolbox, you'll find dozens of other places where they're just the right tool for the job. The 5:1 taper ratio provides clear access to the most common hand-cut dovetail angles.
All...
Blue Spruce Optima Skew Chisel Sets
Optima Skew Chisels fit into intricate joinery cuts when the others just won't. The blades are thin, flat and have a concave edge profile that gets you into the tightest places with ease while the 65° skew angle of the blade shaves fibers cleanly. Whether you're tackling something as complicated as a full-blind dovetail or simple, but tiny tenons, Optima Skew Chisels will get the job done.
All...
Shapton Kuromaku Professional Series Stones
These are the ever popular Shapton Kuromaku Stones. They also known as Shapton Professional or Shapon Pro whetstones, but are all one and the same thing. They are ceramic which means they will wear more slowly than a traditional waterstone, but still cut quickly to get you back working in no time. Ideal for sharpening woodworking blades and chisels, aswell as kitchen knives and straight razors.
No...
Blue Spruce Optima Mortise Chisels - Curly Maple
Blue Spruce Toolworks new Optima Chisels feature a lapped and polished back with a flatness measured in light bands (the same system used to measure silicon wafers). When you unbox your new Optima Chisels, they’re razor sharp and 100% ready to go to work.
Each Optima Chisel is machined from A2 tool steel, then double-tempered and cryogenically treated. The tempering and cryo treatments result...
Shapton Lapping System
The Shapton Lapping System - also known as ''Naoru''.
A cast iron lapping plate 250 x 101 x 28mm in a geometrical pattern, ideal for flattening waterstones. For more information on how to use the system please look here.
Supplied with a bottle of coarse, and a bottle of medium lapping powder. More available separately.
Blue Spruce Optima Bench Chisels - Set of 4
Blue Spruce Toolworks new Optima Chisels feature a lapped and polished back with a flatness measured in light bands (the same system used to measure silicon wafers). When you unbox your new Optima Chisels, they’re razor sharp and 100% ready to go to work.
Each Optima Chisel is machined from A2 tool steel, then double-tempered and cryogenically treated. The tempering and cryo treatments result...
Shapton Lapping Powder
Shapton Lapping Powder for use with the The Shapton Lapping System.
Available in three grades.....
Coarse (80 grit) - to be used with heavily dished stones and 120 to 320 grit Shapton stones.
Medium (180 grit) - to be used with 1000, 1500 & 2000 grit Shapton stones. This can also be used on the finer stones if they are also heavily dished stones.
Fine (4000 grit) - to be used with...
Shapton Lapping Disc
The Shapton Lapping Disc is used when a stone gets clogged up, and is not cutting as effectively.
To dress a stone; first wet the entire surface of the sharpening stone. Next, take the Lapping Disc in one hand, and dress the entire stone surface by making small circular motions, but without applying too much force. There is no need to dress it for a long time: only one layer of 'skin' needs...
Bessey EZ360 One-handed Clamp with Rotating Handle
All-round flexible use
The EZ360 one-handed clamp is extremely versatile:
Thanks to innovative 360° turning mechanism to perfectly adjust the handle position to the clamping task
Thanks to long protective caps to protect the workpiece surface and distribute the clamping force of up to 1,400 N
Change the upper part from clamping to spreading thanks to the push-button release mechanism
Extremely...
Bessey TW16-2K 3/4'' Bench Hold Down
The Bessey Hold Down Clamp with the 19mm adaptor to work on workbenches with 3/4" holes.
Clamping depth 100mm.
Max. clamping height 200mm.
High quality 2-component plastic handle with smooth-running trapezoidal threaded spindle.
Includes the 19mm (3/4") adaptor.
If you are looking for this to work with a workbench which has 1" holes (such as the Sjoberg Elite range)...
Tormek Multi Base
The new MB-102 Multi Base allows you to sharpen on the side of the grinding wheel but, with the addition of the extra mount, the universal support can be positioned vertically on the front of the machine.
The Vertical position provides better sharpening access for knife edge trailing (with the edge in the same direction as the rotation of the grinding wheel) and for guided honing using knife jigs
The...
Quercus Magazine - September/October 2023
One of those woodworkers to have their lives changed by Covid is Will Adams, who after the pandemic chose to resign his teaching job and become a toolmaker. Now he recalls the gradual path he has trod to become renowned for his marking tools. And for home woodworkers, Gary Rogowski shows how to temper your own plane blades with a propane torch and vegetable oil to make a high-angle Krenov-style tool...
Norton Cyclindrical Slipstone
Sharpening tools with curved edges like gouges requires slipstones (and patience). Getting the exact slipstone to match the profile of the cutting edge is difficult. However this slipstone has a wide diameter of 3/4" which is unlike most other slips.
This Norton India Stone is particularly helpful for working incannel tools such as firmer gouges. It is also handy for removing the burr on the...
Karvsnitt: Carving, Pattern & Color in the Slojd Tradition
by Jögge Sundqvist
You can download an excerpt from this book here.
Cutting patterns and symbols in wood, and enhancing them with vibrant colour, are folk traditions kept alive in the slöjd craft. Through decorations imbued with meaning, chip carving has given soul to slöjd woodcraft throughout history. Even today, chip carving offers a natural complement to an artfully crafted...
Mortise & Tenon Magazine - Issue 15
The Table of Contents for Issue 15 of Mortise and Tenon Magazine is
“Ambulance for Monuments: Saving Romanian Heritage” – Dragos Nuta
“Making the Versatile Hutch Table” – Joshua A. Klein
“The Traveling ‘Ukulele” – Aaron Keim
“Accustomed to Handle the Hammer: The Nail Making Specialty in Pre-industrial Manufacture” –...
Flexcut Hook Strop
The Flexcut Hook Strop is used to polish the inside edge of any hook knife. The inside edge needs to be polished regularly to keep it razor sharp. The Hook Strop is also used to remove the wire edge that forms after sharpening your hook knives with a Flexcut Hook Hone. A bar of Flexcut Gold Polishing Compound and an instructional guide are also included.
Flexcut Hook Hone
The Flexcut Hook Hone is used to sharpen the inside edge of any hook knife. This sharpening tool used abrasive paper as a more aggressive solution than stropping to remove nicks and scratches from the cutting edge.
Includes 400 and 600-grit abrasive paper and an instructional guide.
Glenn Lucas 1'' Radius Edge Skew Chisel
Glenn Lucas 1'' Radius Edge Skew Chisel which is used for planing cuts and detailed work on spindles.
This is Glenn's preferred shape of skew chisel.
The handle is 10" in length
Saburrtooth 1/4'' Cross Cutter Kit
A set of 4 Saburrtooth 1/4'' Cross Cutters in the following sizes 1/4'', 1/2'', 3/4'' and 1''.
Pentel Graphgear 1000 Automatic Pencil Set
We were first put onto these little beauties by Jaap Bosma (the taller half of Mappa Tools). Jaap was taking all the credit for uncovering the mechanical pencil, until we stumbled upon a blog from Christopher Schwarz and that they'd been on the market for almost a couple of decades! Anyway, a few years later and the dynamic buying department of CHT sprung into action and finally started to stock...
Veritas Box-Maker's Plough Plane
This tool has been missing for a very long time. It is based upon the Record 043 Plough Plane which was produced during the heydays of British manufacturing.
An ideal tool for making grooves in boxes and small drawers, this compact plough plane excels at precise grooving and beading applications on small workpieces.
5 1/2" (140mm) long cast-iron body and weighing just 1 lb 7 oz (650 grams),...