I've managed to find some spare minutes this morning so I decided to take a quick look at refurbishing an old wooden shoulder plane which I've had laying around but never used. These rebate planes can often be picked up from car boot sales and flea markets for next to...
Having a keen interest can often come with an ambition to turn it to a livelihood and take it professional. After all what better way to spend your days than doing what you love and being paid for it. I'm not just talking about woodwork here, it could be cooking,...
The Wall Cupboard Plan - Download the PDF Start watching the video. As promised I can now bring you the plan to go alongside our Wall Cupboard Video. We'll take you step by step through this build over three videos and we wanted to provide you with the means to follow...
The next job in the clean up process was to address timber storage. Timber for me has to be divided in to different groups by it's its use and for some time it's all become merged in to mixed piles. To make it quicker and easier to access the required parts I've...
We've now fully booked and have had to close orders for next month's batch of Little John workbenches. It's been proving a very popular little bench and after a bit of discussion we've decided to commit to a further batch before the end of this year. Deposits can...
I'm currently editing our next video and this one's going to be a little longer with a little more woodworking than what you've seen so far. This will be following a project from start to finish and the complete build will published over three parts. When we set about...
Today we finally set up our Facebook page. It's been a long time coming, but then I think that must be because I'm missing a gene or two... can't think why else I'd be finding it such a struggle to understand! I Still haven't quite got my head around it but I'm sure...
Just a quick follow up to Helen's post this morning. The power of branding today seems to be pretty immense and I think it's fair to say that we judge the value of the product by its brand rather than its true qualities. For me it's a sad truth but its certainly isn't...
It was a beautiful day on Saturday (read as " Richard and I were dripping with sweat"... typical Brits, never happy with the weather!) when we popped down to the open day at Peter Sefton's Furniture School. As I mentioned on Friday there was a large chance that...
We've been busy this afternoon getting packed up and ready for a long trek out in the morning. Richard has gathered together just a 'few' tools and plenty of timber in preparation for spending tomorrow out at the open day at Peter Sefton's Furniture School. The plan...
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