Richard Raffan is a Contributing Editor to AWR. He is famous internationally as a woodturner and author of several classic books and videos on woodturning.

Raf has been making furniture professionally for thirty-two years. Along with AWR Editor Linda Nathan, he started the Working with Wood Shows, then transitioned to the magazine Australian Wood Review.

Neil Erasmus is a third generation furniture designer, maker and teacher. He designs and makes for commission and makes one, maybe two speculative pieces a year for selected exhibitions.

Jugo Ilic spent 36 years working at CSIRO studying and researching wood quality in addition to specialising in wood identification. Now he works as R & D Projects Officer at Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA), writes technical articles for AWR and also runs a wood identification service called Knowyourwood.

Iain Green has a woodwork studio at the Sunshine Coast, QLD.

Donald Powell is a Maleny based wood sculptor who has a particular affinity for figures, but works on a wide range of subjects.

Andrew Potocnik ‘arrived’ on the Australian woodworking scene in 1983 when he won outright first prize in the State-wide Woodturning Competition in Victoria.