Australian Wood Review

Australian Wood Review is Australia’s premier woodworking and woodcraft magazine. Step-by-step projects and articles on technique for all skill levels offer up to date knowledge on designing, joining, carving, turning, decorating and finishing wood. Our stories are authored by Australian master craftspeople and wood artists. Each issue includes reviews of all the essential hand and power tools and machinery, specialist fittings and products that woodworkers need to successfully complete projects. Australian Wood Review also profiles local and international makers, giving an insight into their working methods. Australian Wood Review is a magazine for all woodworkers and people who love wood.

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Product News • A round-up of tools and equipment to take notice of.

How to Weave a Chair • Design is a dynamic process with discoveries to be made, and details to determine. And, seeking to challenge himself, Henrik Tjaerby piled on the processes.

Point of Origin • How can makers safeguard ownership of their designs in a world that thrives on broadscale digital ‘sharing’, often without due credit to its originators? The success of Greg Klassen’s widely lauded and much imitated River Table design has helped him create a sustainable career as a designer maker, but there have also been unexpected consequences.

Maker of the Year 2021 • Presenting the winners, runners-up and finalists.

Calibrating a Sliding Tablesaw • Sliding tablesaws offer a range of cutting capabilities. David Luckensmeyer explains how using a series of alignment checks will reward you with accuracy.

In Praise of Tung Oil • A little goes a very long way, and with good results, explains Peter Spaulding.

From Log to Lathe • Knowing how to process the raw material takes experience. Many beginners think they have to get the biggest, as opposed to the best blank possible, explains Terry Martin.

Future Remains • Seven women designer makers showed work at Craft Victoria’s gallery space in an exhibition defined by an exploration of style and processes.

Wood Diary

Screen Play • For accuracy’s sake – it’s all about the joy of jigs, explains Richard Vaughan.

A Question of Scale • Sometimes ideas need to be scaled down to work with smaller sections of wood, explains Andrew Potocnik.