Making a chest to transport treasured tools turned out to be a skill building exercise.

Making a piece with hidden secrets, subtle details and angled joinery became an expression of Vasko Sotirov’s coronavirus-struck life.

Shifting axes on faceplate turned items can produce a variety of geometric and ornamental forms.

Two ways to blacken paler timbers and still allow the grain to show through.

The why and the when can be just as important as the how, says Harry T. Morris.

If you’ve found yourself with branches of a tree that are too good to send to the firewood pile, making these lidded containers could be the project for you. Andrew Potocnik shows how.

The use of colour and other surface treatments can take your work to the next level. Story by Carol Russell.

A step-by-step lesson from wood artist and Maker of the Year 2020 award winner Grant Vaughan.

You’ll still need plans, but somehow seeing the process makes it seem that much more achievable.

Here's a project for an ideal gift to challenge and show off your joinery skills.

Dave Stanton reveals the hand and machine processes involved in the making of a highly efficient handplane.

Learn boxmaking fundamentals and joinery with Col Hosie of Gifkins Dovetail

Your choice of finish can allow form and texture to dominate, or let the viewer see deep into the grain and colour of the wood. Story by Carol Russell.

If you’ve ever wondered how those intricately patterned segmented turned vases are made – here’s the answer.

Steven Der-Garabedian uses veneering and bent lamination techniques to make an attractive tea tray.

Henrik Tjaerby investigates the potential of furniture that makes the most of lightweight woven slats.