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.

Editor’s Letter

Australian Wood Review

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Kutzall Rasps

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Veritas Domino Joinery Table

Making Dowel Hinges • Dowel hinges can add a distinctive touch to your box creations, explains David Hall.

Thick Through Thin • Neil Erasmus shows how to make a vacuum box jig for thicknessing thin stock.

More is More • Thirty-six years later, Michael Gill’s masterpiece cabinet is complete.

Finding Your Voice • How can makers develop a style and design work that is distinctly their own?

Topping it Off • A ready-glued round panel was the perfect complement for an elegant small table design that assembles with four screws.

Searching for Simplicity • Persisting in all creative projects is a singular ambiguous question – how much design is enough?

A Carver’s Bench • Compact, sturdy and demountable, this small bench is ideal for small-scale work.

Wood Diary

Cutting Straight • Practice is key, but understanding tool anatomy and user stance will speed your progress with handsaws, explains David Luckensmeyer.

Lost Trades in Bendigo • In March this year, over 150 artisans came together to show their trades were still very much alive, and that knowledge was being passed on.

Table Remade • ‘To me this is not fine woodwork – rather it is practical woodwork’, said Raf Nathan, as he worked his way through the splits and failed joins.