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There is a growing interest in Green Woodworking across Australia. This has been unfolding for some years in the USA and the UK, but down here in the Antipodes we always seem to catch on a few years behind our cousins in the Northern Hemisphere. (Except in the uptake of new technologies, where Australia funnily enough has one of the fastest uptakes). However, we are talking here about the uptake of ancient technologies... I went on my Green Woodworking Odyssey to the USA in 2013, and since then have been sharing the joys of Green Woodworking with many people here in Perth, Western Australia. It is a different smorgasbord of timbers here to that traditionally used in Europe and North America. ' Riving a piece of Black Birch into section for spoon carving, at Drew Langsners,  NC, USA. My focus has been on using timbers obtained from Perths "Urban Forest",'the trees growing in suburban backyards, parks and gardens. The cover of these trees continues to diminish in the gu...

A while ago, I finally completed the handrail to the staircase I had written about in several earlier posts I have been meaning to tell the story, so here it is. Lets tell it in pictures: The handrail awaits its end, which will curve down and around the corner. The original profile my customer found on the internet in the USA. I worked out the process on a 5 stage machining process. Planning the curve. From above it needs to match the radius of Tread #2's curved nosing. Over its length it needs to drop the height of one Riser. Laying out the blocks ready to make the laminations, following the details on the horizontal and vertical axes.  Laminations glued in place, with epoxy resin. View from above, Cramps doing their job as the glue dries.. Meanwhile, as the glue dried I made up the jig for shaping the curve. Cramps off, glue dry. Time to shape the block. Router jig moves back and forth and around the curve to shape the outside surface radius.  Router jig doing its job beauti...