Making Music and Furniture
Peter Sefton Furniture School graduate Simon Denton tells us of his plans to forge a successful career combining his two lifelong passions: music and furniture making.
The Woodworker Magazine
Selecting and Using Hand Planes DVD Review
These days there’s no shortage of information out there for woodworkers that just wasn’t available when I were a lad. Unless you had college training you either had to dip into books, enrol in an evening class or work it out for yourself. Early instructional videos could be painful to watch, a fast track to an afternoon nap, and even now some YouTube demos can be a bit dodgy. A happy exception is Peter Sefton’s series of Fine Furniture Making DVDs, which are professional and certainly absorbing. Admittedly this is the first one I’ve watched, but if preceding discs are of the same standard (Andy King assures me they are), then you may want to reserve the DVD player for an evening or two.
Good Woodworking Magazine
The Key to Cutting Sharp Dovetails
Peter Sefton and his students learn about the hand cutting of dovetails and use these newfound skills to make a small chestnut letter rack.
Good Woodworking Magazine
Choosing the Right Hardware – Part 4: Drawer Runners
In the last of this series on hardware, Peter Sefton considers the
options when conventional methods give way to new technology.
Furniture and Cabinet Making Magazine
Choosing the Right Hardware – Part 3: Shelf Supports & Knock Down Fittings
Peter Sefton looks at a range of shelf supports and knock down fittings to suit every budget.
Furniture and Cabinet Making Magazine
Choosing the Right Hardware – Part 2: Locks
Peter Sefton explains why it helps to know your left throw from your right when choosing the best lock for the job.
In this, the second in a series of four articles about choosing the right hardware, I look at a selection of locks from traditional brassware, through to more contemporary rare-earth magnets and push catches.
Furniture and Cabinet Making Magazine
Choosing the Right Hardware – Part 1: Hinges
In the first of a new series of four articles about selecting and fitting the right hardware, we ask Peter Sefton for advice on a range of the most commonly available hinges.
Furniture and Cabinet Making Magazine
Dovetail Saws Put to the New Tools Test
Needing to equip seven student toolboxes with dovetail saws, Peter Sefton and his latest crop of budding furniture makers test eight of the best saws from Britain and beyond, with surprising results…
British Woodworking Magazine
