Woodwork

Links

This a short collection of links on woodwork. The objective is to put together useful information for people doing wood work at the amateur level. It is also a way of exchanging information with a few colleagues that share the same interests. A simple web search on woodwork will result on thousands of links, being most of them of professionals that legitimately want to sell their work, but that say little about their techniques or from amateurs of goodwill, that unfortunately can only provide little advice. Here we try to "filter" out these two extremes so we hope you will not loose your time when checking out these links - this is of course subjective and you might be disappointed.

The links are divided in several categories ranging from basic woodworking techniques to professional galleries that will motivate you to do some work of your own. If you know interesting links that can be included in this page or have a new category to suggest please let us know.

Marquetry & Parquetry

This is a domain where the amateurs have reached a high level of sophistication and whose web sites provide good advice. Although most of the time the objective is not to build furniture the basic techniques are the same.

The Marquetry Society - This is perhaps the place to start since many marquetry associations are affiliated to "The Marquetry Society". The site contains a good online tutorial.

Staffordshire Marquetry Group - This site contains a very well done and concise "Beginners Guide" to marquetry and parquetry by Quentin Smith. The tutorial is also available in PDF format for easy download and printing.

Projects online

Stand-up desk - By Charles Prowell (Charles Prowell woodworks).

Stand-up mirror - By Charles Prowell (Charles Prowell woodworks).

Tools Suppliers

hmDiffusion - online shop (France).

Quality work

This is certainly the most subjective category of links. Hopefully these links will help keeping you motivated to improve your woodwork skills!

Charles Prowell woodworks - Charles Prowell has specialized in the design of Gates and Fences but, in his web site, you will find much more than that and all of exceptional artistic quality.

Wood Suppliers

Corabois - (Geneva, Switzerland)

Roubois.com - online shop (France).

Veneer

Educational Veneer Information - A very good tutorial on veneers from Veneernet.com.

Woodworking Machines

A sort list of manufactures that produce both professional and amateur machine tools.

Holztech

Kity

Lurem

Working with Machines

Workshop Techniques - This is an excellent online tutorial on working with machine tools. A real course with quizzes that will help you assess how much you have learned . A lot of emphasis is put on safety so if you never worked with machines and intend to do it you should certainly read it.
   

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