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How To Make A Chaise Lounge
How To Make A Chaise Lounge

Project Description Designed and created by Kevin Inkster (Arbortech’s CEO and Founder), our Chaise Lounge was crafted from waste pine. This proj...

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How To Make A Chess Board
How To Make A Chess Board

Andrew Burton from our Brisbane store shows us how to make a chess board! Step by step process: When making an end-grain chess board the first ste...

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Beginners Guide To Pen Making Equipment
Beginners Guide To Pen Making Equipment

The essential items: Depending on a budget: The price range of wood lathes available from Carbatec varies from $400 -$4000. If your only interest i...

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Spotlight on Microplanes
Spotlight on Microplanes

Written by Lindsay, our Brisbane Showroom Assistant. This past weekend, I had a good look at the range of microplanes we have on offer here at Carb...

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Open Segment Jig
Open Segment Jig

Written by Allan Short. Allan Short works in our Customer Call Centre at Carbatec Brisbane and is an esteemed woodworker.  This open segment jig i...

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Protecting Your Assets
Protecting Your Assets

For most woodworkers there is nothing more saddening than returning to your workshop after some time away to find surface rust has taken hold of yo...

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Making a Cigar Box Guitar

Box guitars and fiddles date back to at least the early 19th century. More recently, wooden boxes have been turned into ukuleles, basses, and even ...

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How to: Make Pepper Mills

Andy Lucas is a wood hobbyist who also lends a hand and plenty of good advice at our Carbatec Brisbane store. Here Andy steps us through a project ...

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