Innholdsfortegnelse for September 2022 i Australian Wood Review

Controlling and collecting the fine dust from sanding is vital for a safe and clean operating environment. The FST-160 sanding table from Felder offers a ready-made solution for larger shops and I purchased one of these last year for my own shop. With an operating surface of 1550 x 800mm, this table is large enough to handle most components other than large panels, which would likely go through a wide-belt machine anyway. The working surface is a series of smoothly-dressed battens in European beech, creating a durable and hard-wearing surface. These battens are fixed to a steel frame that can be easily removed for cleaning inside the cavity if required. I would recommend supplementing the working surface with some non-slip drawer liner or something similar to soften the surface a…

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Paul Kay has been an engineering patternmaker for 50 years, as well as a model maker, furniture maker, miniature confectionery tooling sculptor and woodcarver. Recently however, Paul has created a body of work for his second exhibition, Rhythm and Hues – Syncopation in Wood, organised with art gallery director Frances Keevil. During his patternmaking career, the range of forms Paul has made, mostly from dimensioned drawings in various drafted views, was stratospheric. Common in the mix were wooden patterns for the foundry industry, and industrial models for industrial designers. He made innumerable wooden master patterns for vacuum forming plastic sheet, as well as wooden and aluminium tooling used to produce sand casting blocks for the welding of train and crane rails. Wooden and epoxy resin master patterns were made for…

Sequence is the title of a debut sculptural solo show by Melbourne furniture designer maker Hugh McCarthy which ran in Sydney in May, 2022. Eleven columns of irregularly shaped and stacked units made a dramatic statement in a gallery context. As a collection, these vertical ‘sequences’ create a family of objects which are in dialogue with each other, as well as the surrounding space. Sequences of curves, angles and voids highlighted by variations in joinery and wood grain were an opportunity for Hugh to explore the tensions and harmonies that occur between units within a singular object. I took the opportunity to ask Hugh about the nature and new direction of this work. Up to now we’ve seen your custom fitouts and furniture? Why the new direction? What was your…

Around a year ago I upgraded my workshop router table to a full-specification set-up from Canadian manufacturer Jessem. Having run various table/router combinations over the years, I’d spent some time searching around and this set-up ticks all the boxes for me. There are other package options or you can buy individual components and add-on accessories for a custom set-up. The Ultimate package is designed as a ready-to-go set-up of the highest quality. Included are the table, AUK fixed-base router motor (many handheld routers can also be fitted), TA micro-adjust fence, Mast-R-Lift Excel II router lift, Wixey digital readout, anodised aluminium stand and switch box with GPO. The stand is easy to assemble, stable and sturdy, and has a storage shelf. The table is a fairly standard size at 810 x…

Sometimes you don’t realise how handy a tool could be until you have one. I have had the predecessor to this square for a few years now and have been surprised how often I have reached for it, even though I also have large squares from Colen Clenton, Chris Vesper and Starrett. So why would I use this one? There are two important reasons. First, when you are marking out on flat panels, or drawing up plans on paper, regular squares have the stock only on the surface, but not the blade. This square has both edges lying fully on the surface, thus eliminating any potential parallax error in your marking. Second, simply because it has two long edges, rather than the long blade but short stock of normal squares,…

A woodturner with basic skills can easily turn a range of items suitable for home use, or as gifts for family and friends. For example, I have a number of flat wooden plates that we use every day for morning toast and snacks. Here I will show the basic steps so you can turn some for yourself. Choice of wood My wood of choice for plates is jacaranda. It is easily available because jacaranda trees don’t live long, so they are regularly felled. Jacaranda is easy to cut, stable, sands well, and doesn’t lose its nice creamy colour. When it is finished it is hard and durable. Some of my jacaranda plates are nearly 30 years old and have not deteriorated at all. If jacaranda is not available, local woodworkers…

It was only a matter of time before this happened: a 3D printed tool. Having never seen an object made this way, it looked a bit rough and crude, with surfaces that looked unfinished. This is the effect of the way the object is built from multiple passes of the computer driven nozzle, with each pass leaving a small track on the surface. Moving past what is really only a cosmetic problem, to the guide itself, I was intrigued to find a cleverly designed tool with some unique features. The idea of using a small tray to hold the guide and the moveable angle stop was new to me. It takes advantage of both the plastic and the adjustable accuracy of the 3D printing technology so that both the guide…

There is a lot to like about this guide. It has a skeletal look, without any of the bulk of most other guides. And, for a tool used with water, it is properly made out of stainless steel and anodised aluminium. The clamp shaft runs in brass or bronze bushes, which are easily removed for cleaning or exchange. This latter is important because if any of the stone slurry finds its way inside them, as happens with the Veritas guides, it will wear them out eventually. Perhaps the feature I like most is the widely spaced wheels, which balance the guide on the stone when sharpening narrow chisels, and their rubber tyres. I was concerned about these wearing out, until I learned they were standard O-rings, easily found and replaced,…

I’m a self-taught woodworker running a one-person workshop in Perth, Western Australia. Under the banner of Marshall Wood, I have spent the last three years focusing primarily on bespoke timber furniture and small batch production, with occasional machining work. I’m also a qualified chartered accountant who strayed from the full-time cubicle life after falling in love with woodworking six years ago. Design details I have found that overwhelmingly my clients prefer simple, minimalist pieces and ultimately my job as a bespoke furniture maker is to fulfill the client’s brief. Conveniently, I also love this aesthetic, but the concept of building ‘simple’ looking furniture has left me occasionally feeling as though I’m not showing off the skills I know I possess as a maker. Over the years I have come to…

Check my garage and you’ll find columns of empty cardboard boxes stacked inside and on top of each other. I can’t let an empty box pass me by without wondering whether I should put it aside for the day when it will come in handy. I suppose it’s the result of growing up the son of WWII refugees who never let anything go to waste. There’s nothing wrong with that, but there is a limit to how many things you can save. Why make box forms? How does this relate to the boxes I make? I’m not sure, but I am intrigued by the thought of what is inside a box. Sometimes its outside shape tells you something about the contents, at other times it’s pictorial or written information on…