3 March 2024

Spring Selection

 My stools, benches, chairs and table selection changes month by month.  Find below the thirty or so hand made rustic items I have to offer today.

With silky smooth Honduras Mohogany seats


Oak seats and turned or rustic shaved legs








One Irish Stick back chair - Extra Rustic




The wood used comes from various sources, mostly bought from a small company in Martock, Somerset but often gifted from customers or fellow crafts people or country folk who find themselves with surplus quantities. I have been fortunate to find Acacia, Hornbeam. Honduras Mohogany, Holly, Oak, Sweet Chestnut, Cedar, Yew and Greenheart amongst them.

14 January 2024

New Year Selection - No IKEA Here.

Ready for market these represent a few of my recent creations of the quirky and the rustic

Chess tables, benches and side tables
Tall stools and short ones, some with a lower shelf.
A Welsh stick back chair and a Sheffield cutlers stool
Using various types of hardwood and different styles of leg.
Lathe turned legs or robust and rustic coppiced hardwood.
Every item is individual hand made piece to reflect the character of wood available.

 And the two foreground benches have Hornbeam tops which is hardwearing and robust.

27 May 2023

The Irish Stick Back Chair

After making several of this type of chair I am beginning to understand the challenge the Bodgers of Old faced when working with their limited access to power tools.  This one was a commissioned work .

The wood used is mainly Oak but with a Holly back rest. Joints are glued and wedged without screws or nails. 

 Biscuit joints are hidden within the actual seat to add to the overall robustness. 

 



 

15 March 2023


 My once spacy garage is becoming increasingly cluttered with wood and tools and machinery. I fortunately have a kind neighbour who took this video to show what it is to be creative.

Most days I manage to create enough dust and debris to fuel the home log burner, so nothing goes to waste.

I am being wound up just a little here, which adds something to the joy of making things for the fun of it.

29 December 2022