My latest handywork creations in wood include the following items. All have Oak tops and a natural vegetable-oil and beeswax finish. No screws or nails are used. Joints are waterproof glued and wedged.
Legs are either lathe-turned or cut from young coppice sticks. Theatter randomly shaped and chosen for their rustic appeal and aesthetic quality. No two items are the same and because my work is not machine made each one is unique.
Stick legs are Hazel, Sweet Chestnut or Sycamor wood cut to shape on an old fashioned bodgers horse using a draw knife and spokshave. Where the grlain of the wood demands I like to use a flambe'd finish to accentuate the grain and to help the natural oil and beezwax pentrate deep into the wood.
Pair of nesting tables with figured oak top and lathe turned legs
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Childs Stool
Flamb' Ovals
Rustic and quirky
Rustic with bark on legs and flamb' top
Sheffield Cutlers stool
Rustic wany edge
Rustic Oval
Lathe turned legs
Hazel Legs
Rustic oval
Rustic with wany edge
Teak legs on upcycled wood
Jacobean stained legs
Rustic stool with centre carry-piercing
Three new legs on the old chair & table top waiting for its legs.
Awaiting assembly
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F.A.Q. Footnote: I am sometimes asked if I undertake commisions and the answer is "selectively and sometimes". Repair work I will not normally accept, unless required to my own pieces under guarantee, (happily undertaken but rarely needed).
Wood is carefully selected from a local supplier Yandles of Martock.
Windfalls or driftwood is sometimes used. I am sometimes asked if I can use tree sized wood from the garden. If you deliver it to me planked and cut into useable form - yes.!
