Quercus

Quercus Magazine is aimed at woodworking enthusiasts, professional or amateur, with a passion for hand-tools and working by hand. We cover everything from green woodworking to furniture-making, chair-making and carving spoons or Sloyd. You will find sharpening tips and profiles of toolmakers and expert craftspeople, plus reviews of books, videos and social media posts and themes. We will be publishing the background details about people you follow and know on platforms like Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

Quercus

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To Plane a Bench • When the workpiece wobbles, Robin Gates contemplates flattening the bench

Rolling Without a Guide • Just as The Woodworker magazine suggested a century ago, John Lloyd recommends honing by hand

Jögge’s Armchair Emma • Folk art and slöjd is explored by Jögge Sundqvist in the making of his Emma Armchair

Boxmaking Joy • Two new products for boxmakers

The Armchair Woodie • Enjoying his time free of a medical career, our new columnist chooses his favourite online inspiration

Tying a Windsor Knot • Busy once again, Nick Gibbs writes how a complex knot of visits & projects led to making a chair

The Problems with A & C • What’s the difference between art and craft? It’s all about problem-solving writes Steve Schuler

The Quercus World Tour • From May onwards, the world’s finest woodworking magazine will be out and about worldwide

Seat Shapers • The American chairmaker and tutor Peter Galbert reveals the tools he uses for shaping solid seats

Searching for a Launch • Eventually, after years of investigation, Hugh Thompson finds the first album of a great journal in 1901

Back in Sketching Days • Instructions from The Woodworker, 1901 match Harry Morris’ sketches on his woodworking in Japan

A National Table • Champion of forgotten giants, Hamish Low tells how a vast oak was resurrected by a dedicated team

Press Ahead • In the second part of his planing series, John Lloyd looks to resolve pressure and wiggle

Boxes for a Book • To promote the launch of an important new book we featured last issue, 32 bespoke boxes were made

A Vise Device • Needing a better shooting board, Martin Sturfält made a sliding jig held on his workbench

Let the Fore Be with You • In the first of The Edge’s Planemakers series, Rex Krueger works with an Austin Papp foreplane

A Travishing Approach to Shaving and Scraping • James Mursell was a fruit farmer when chairmaking drew him toolmaking from the orchard

Removers and Shapers • Robin Gates compares the handling and efficiency of a Surform file and a Shinto saw rasp

Router Plane Depth Stop • Scott Wynn asks what’s the mysterious rod on a router plane no one knows how to use

Versatile Handscrews • Charles Mak argues every woodworker’s toolkit should hold a handscrew