Woodworking Crafts Issue 69

In issue 69 of Woodworking Crafts you’ll find plenty to inspire and inform your crafts. In Projects, Fred and Julie Byrne make three large garden jigsaw puzzles; Nic Westermann carves a freestyle fluted bowl; James Hatter builds a front porch; Michael Barrington makes a garden bench; Keith Smith makes a small console table; Colwin Way turns a set of table skittles; Alan Goodsell and Randall Maxey build a wall cabinet; John Bullar makes a simple table; Anthony Bailey makes a backgammon board; Franciszek de Sage conserves an antique tea caddy; and Rick Rich makes a Shaker-style three-legged table.

In our Techniques articles, Charles Mak demonstrates an easy way to make knock-down furniture; Steve Bisco carves a Queen Anne-style leg; Mitch Peacock shares his saw sharpening process; Andrew Thomas explains the most effective way to cut forms on the bandsaw; Andrew Fermer gives a workshop acoustics guide that will help protect your hearing; and Matt Long presents all the information you need about working with hand planes.

In Features, Marc Fovargue-Davies reports on an ambitious project to restore a Cambridgeshire windmill; Mitch Peacock reviews WDS’s Moxon Vice Hardware Kit; we visit the Cairngorms workshop of ‘Wooden Tom’, aka Tom Banks; Emma Newlyn discovers the health benefits of a walk in the woods; and Derek Jones investigates the enduring popularity of Shaker style.

All this and more in issue 69 of Woodworking Crafts!