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

Quercus

A Toolbox for All • Founded by Aspen Golann, The Chairmakers Toolbox strives to inspire new communities for woodwork

A Faithfull conversion • Ben Groenevelt saves creating a spokeshave travisher

Are You Ready to Teach? • Inspired by one of Derek Jones’ Build a Cricket Table courses, John Menard starts teaching himself

Heads and Hands • With practice and mistakes in mind, Bill Ratcliffe recommends learning to learn

Saving Traditions • Richard Arnold saves old joinery with new tools

Rolling Up the Prizes • Rycotewood College student Toby Watson shows how he designed a folding chair at school

Makepeace Wins Award • Britain’s foremost designer and maker scorches oak

The Apron String Wars • How The Armchair Woodworkie and Nick Gibbs battle it out to find the best of three aprons

Green Deserts • Mike Abbott gets nod in Desert Island Discs

Anyone for Cricket? • To coincide with the launch of his new book, Derek Jones explores the history of cricket tables

Little Hammer Horrors • Joining some junior carpenters, Dylan Iwakuni spends a weekend at the Jungle Gym

Much More Milling Around • Horrified by the felling of a local oak, Barbie Roberts borrows a friend’s sawmill and sets to work

Carving Paths • Founding of a project using crafts to open new doors

Lost Trades Fair • A celebration of skill & craftsmanship

Step by Step • From the simple to the sophisticated, Robin Gates explores hand tools for rabbeting

Points for People • Resurrecting a forgotten two-person crosscut saw, Henrie van Rooij sharpens his teeth

A Dovetail Dash • Returning to his discussion on skill, John Lloyd tries cutting a five-minute dovetail

The Wounded Workshops • Having recently had an argument with a bandsaw, David Honey opens a pocket-sized emergency guide

Efficient Working • Rex Krueger reviews Joshua Klein’s new book Worked

Wright Ways • In the Chicago suburbs The Village Woodwright is building a special workshop for teaching children

Castle Crafts • In the grounds of an English stately home, Peter Quin has quietly built a multiple course college

Gripping Thumbs • Starting at the obvious point, Jögge Sundqvist introduces basic knife grips for chipcarving

Love Letters • Preparing to chip carve signs, Jögge Sundqvist shows how to cut letters and numbers

New Shavings • Running a unique Japanese spokeshave course, Masashi Kutsuwa reports on the nankin nanna

Precision in Jigs • Needing to prepare splines for a jewellery box, Roland Eugster discovers the art of jigonomics

Intelligent Hands • Nick Gibbs reviews two books with similar names

Properly Peared • Championing a unique fruitwood, David Savage posthumously celebrates the qualities of pear

Handworks 2023 • After six years of expectation and hope, Handworks returns to Iowa with more than 70 exhibitors

Spruced-Up Chisel • Is it a chisel, is it a plane? Ian Parker tests Blue Spruce’s new Optima Chisel Plane

Milky & Oily • Two finishes with Cornish links

Plowing the Veritas Way • Of all the things...