Issue Number 119
February 2005
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Making a Pepper Grinder
Making a Rocking Chair - Part
3
36 Drawer Cabinet
Carving Feathers
Neat Little Jewellery Dishes
Inverted Sanders
Scrollsaw Modification
for Plain Blades
Table of Contents
Features
The Timber Benders
150-year-old equipment forms the backbone of this
growing timber bending enterprise in Daylesford, Victoria.
Purchasing
a Router
A guide to router selection plus a survey of most of the router
models currently available.
Get
More From Your Batteries
We de-mystify rechargeable battery technology
and show you how to make your cordless tools perform better and the batteries
last longer.
Re:Cycle
Review of the stunning work on display at the 3rd Tweed Wood Biennial
Exhibition.
Club
Drumbeat
Copper Coast Woodwork Group
In three short years this group
has grown into a thriving club covering virtually all aspects of woodworking.
Across
the Teacher's Bench
by Les Miller (Assoc. Editor)
The ABC of
Power Tools - Part 4, Portable Circular Saws.
Jim
Cleaver's Ancient Egyptian Adze
Using the AWW plans, Jim built a working
adze.
Equipment
for the Ultimate Workshop - 6
Carba-tec's industrial quality 400mm bandsaw.
Making
Shaping & Sanding a Little Easier
by Glenn Roberts
Glenn examines
some of the specialised carving, shaping and sanding options now available.
USER
REPORT
JET Universal Mobile Base
by Greg Burnham
Woodwork
Competition
Details of the woodwork competition to be held at every Timber
& Working with Wood Show this year. Be in it and visit the show to see all the
entries.
Going
Solar
The Robertson Mill installation in Gympie QLD is one of the larger
commercial solar kilns in the country.
Catching
Up with Vic Wood
by Neil Scobie
While taking it a little easier
these days, Vic, one of Australia's best known turners, is still very much involved
in Australian woodworking.
Gallery
A model stagecoach, Olympic Torch display, home-made bandsaw and photographic
pyrography
Woodturn
2004
by George Hatfield
Richard Raffan, Soren Berger, Theo
Haralampou and Tim Skilton demonstrate at Meadowbank TAFE
Skills Publishing Open Day 2004
Projects
Woodturning
Tips
by George Hatfield
Making a Pepper Grinder.
Five
Chairs for Posterity - 3
by Jim Cleaver
In this final instalment
Jim finishes the legs and rests and assembles the chairs.
36
Drawer Cabinet
by Trevor Larkey
Inspired by a 1959 magazine
cover this multi-drawer cabinet is ideal for the keen sewing or hobby enthusiast.
Carving
Feathers
by Buddy Smith
A big feather makes an interesting
exercise.
Neat
Little Jewellery Dishes
by Carol Rix
A simple but very useful
item that combines faceplate and between-centres turning.
George's
Corner
Results of the Clock Competition.
Inverted
Sanders
by Jim McCarter and Pat Crowe
Converting a portable
belt sander into an 'upside-down' bench-top sander.
Scrollsaw
Modification for Plain Blades
by Steve Manning
Adaptors allow
plain blades to be fitted to pinned blade scrollsaws.
Other Features
New Products
Good
Ideas & Short Cuts
Triton router table set-up, Making
a screw chuck & Keeping the pressure on
Book
Reviews
The Pocket Hole Drilling Jig Project Book
by Danny Proulx
Turned Chessmen
by Mike Darlow
A Guide to Work-Holding on the Lathe
by Fred Holder
Chainsaw Carving
by Hal MacIntosh