Quercus Magazine - November/December 2021

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QM09 November/December 2021

Summary

The latest issue of Quercus features Jennie Alexander, author of Make a Chair from a Tree, with an extract from her new edition of perhaps the most significant of chairmaking books. You’ll find all the jigs and devices to make a post and rung chair, while elsewhere this issue Laura Mays tells how Krenov School students make a wooden plane the day they start, James Journigan shows how it’s often quicker to make your own tools than rely on machines, and how woodworkers can learn from the past. Robin Gates, Alex Walshaw, Wycliffe Stutchbury and David Keys make furniture from reclaimed wood, Ethan Sincox restores a hand drill, Derek Jones shows how to choose a block plane, and many others reveal why they love woodworking by hand.

Contents

Jennie Alexander provides a compendium of devices and jigs for making chairs.

Laura Mays reports on James Krenov’s influence on making wooden planes

Rex Krueger unpicks a vintage toolbox he found on his family’s farm

Scott Wynn explains the value of his long-lasting shooting board

Charles Mak finds extra ways to use cramps

Lake Erie Toolworks customers show their uses of the workbench accessories

Kyle Barton introduces his Spindle Drilling Jig for chairmakers

Sean Hellman sharpens bandsaw blades rather than throw them away

John Lloyd refurbishes a cheap cutting gauge to make it supreme

We review books by Ben Law, Rex Krueger, Vic Tesolin and John Makepeace

Dave Watson explains how lime bark is harvested for chair seats and baskets

Barbara Jones makes a box to inspire our Young Woodworker of the Year entrants

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