Bi-Monthly Print/Digital Magazine for Readers who Love Working Wood by Hand (Mostly)
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QM21, the best, the fullest, the latest and sadly the final issue of Quercus is out now, as a bonanza edition.
Your favourite contributors, featuring a Special Report from Handworks 2023, how to cut a dovetail in five minutes, and new tools tested from , , with articles by
In QM20 Dennis Hiorns goes on a course with Chris Schwarz to make a stick chair
At the team of Zak, Aspen, Chelsea and Charles made a chair in a couple of days as a community project. Good for them. Learn more in QM21 soon.
Recently ran a great steambending course, & in QM19 we go online live as virtual 'students'
The bench has finally reached the QM workshop. More details in QM20.
How to Use Milk Paint online course with & is reviewed in QM19 out now. It is brilliant
QM19 is now out digitally at pocketmags.com/quercus-magazine with on the cover
We feature an unusual vice-held shooting board designed and made by Martin Sturfalt. The work is held with a cam and there is a stop for repeats
James Mursell & The Amazing Travishers feature in this issue of QM, plus advice from renowned US chairmaker on choosing & sharpening tools
From his classic book How to Make Carpentry Tools, Aaron Moore shows how to build your own sash cramps in QM17 out now. You can’t have enough cramps after all
Robin Wood, awarded an MBE for services to Heritage Crafts and Skills, is profiled in QM17, following his career as a woodsman, forester, pole lathe pioneer, campaigner, spoon carver, event organiser, craftsperson, green woodworker and toolmaker
In QM17 Mitch Peacock shows how he makes simple, elegant pinch sticks for measuring diagonals
The 16th, yes 16th, issue of Quercus is out now, available in print or digitally at pocketmags.com/quercus-magazine
The latest issue of QM15 is out now featuring an interview with , asking why she started her social media business
Cover illustration by based on photo by
Anne of All Trades profile, with tips & tool choices, features in the next issue of Quercus out on 1st November and ready to be ordered now at mymagazinesub.co.uk/quercus.
showing the use of sliding dovetails (and tusk tenons) the Moravian way in QM14, just out now
The latest Quercus Magazine is out now featuring an interview with toolmaker Tom Lie-Nielsen, a pioneer of the hand-tool renaissance
As an homage to David Charlesworth, Derek Cohen applauds shooting boards in QM13, showing how they can be adjusted to suit their needs
loves waterstones, and in QM13 discusses his favoured combo of grits
Stopped edge planing is the technique Mattias Hallin remembers best of David Charlesworth's articles & films
Kyle Kidwell is a furniture designer/maker who favours evolving pieces in the workshop rather than at a desk, as he writes in a QM13 essay
.gates.woodwork makes his own small bevel from a hacksaw blade and riveted copper nails in QM13
A worldwide community of woodworkers pays tribute to David Charlesworth in QM13
celebrates the Superior Marking Gauge made by in QM13, recalling the time they met at Handworks.
shows how to fix a table top the 18th Century way in QM13 out on 1st July. Search our website to find people who sell Quercus beyond the UK.
celebrates the Superior Marking Gauge in QM13
In QM13 John Mayes reports on the use of pattern sheets by travelling chairmakers on trips from High Wycombe to sell their wares around England
In our special tribute to David Charlesworth in QM13 will be showing how David's skewed knife sharpening jig has proved invaluable for his courses
A review of Wisdom of the Hands by in QM12 with be followed by an extract in QM13
One of the best projects in Whittling, a new book by , is a soap dish, as reviewed in QM12
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Here's a 250-year-old Holtzapfell plane at the @ldeutc course for @bench.talk.101 enthusiasts recently #handplanes #handtools #woodwork #wood
Here's a 250-year-old Holtzapfell being demo'd at the @ldeutc Whisky Cabinet course for @bench.talk.101 'students'. @arnold_richard @geoffreyjfowler @rtchernis #handtools #handmade #woodworking #handplanes #britainsbestwoodworker
As a teenager I was taught to grind tools without a toolrest by Cecil Jordan, the great ornamental turner. It is much easier than you might expect, especially with a diamond wheel. I have decided, as a Self-Sufficient Woodworker, to discard guides and rests to build sharpening muscle memory. Next I will have to acquire a hand-powered grinder #woodturning #handtools #sharpening
See How High They Fly! Preparing Hand-Made Helicopters for the Quercus Air Tattoo at the Oak Fair @stock_gaylard in August #toys #handmadetoys #handtools #woodwork
Yippee! Some progress with my @arnold_richard sash fillister which I have set for rebates on a glazing bar with double glazed units. But my sticking board needs some improvements #handtools #joinery #woodworking
Step One in Nick’s novice quest to make replacement Georgean windows by hand at our new HQ in the 1819 John Nash Church Lodge with the help of a sash fillister and advice from @arnold_richard #handtools #joinery #woodworking
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