http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__xvIIDT2CA&feature=youtu.be This is my final look at this year’s European Woodworking Show and to finish up I’ve brought together some clips from all around the event. There’s a great variety of woodworking skill and crafts to be...
Before we had the design for the cupboard finished I knew that the timber would have to be oak. It’s my favourite timber to work with so it usually is my first choice and for this piece of furniture it’s certainly in keeping with what was most commonly used in the...
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSlIDYR4xWE] Here's some footage that I took a few weeks ago when we first received our video camera and it makes a nice demonstration of our new 'Little John' workbench. We had an hour to spare and though Richard was in...
There’s no doubt that some crafts are easier to keep alive than others and the art of Wheelwrighting strikes me as one that would fall pretty low on the popular past times list. Working outside is enough to put most people off and you have to question if all that fire...
Our latest small woodworking bench has now been named and is ready to step out in to the big bad world. We introduced The ‘Little John’ last month and if you haven’t seen it yet you can catch up with that post here. After taking this compact 5' workbench along to the...
Woodworking is a practical skill so it’s always been needed for our very basic home comforts; roofs, doors and furniture etc. But wood is such a versatile material and there’s often an additional artistic element there that’s designed in or perhaps even left...
Since completing work on the Wadkin cross cut saw we’re beginning to wonder how we ever got by making workbenches without it. Despite it’s age it’s got to be the most dependable machine that we’ve ever owned and whatever we throw at it gets cut fast, clean and...
A workbench should be heavy, very heavy. So I build a lot of benches with good thick 4” tops and simple but robust bases. Now a days we tend to call this the French bench, mainly due to recent trends in workbench designs. I don’t think the evolution of workbench...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7qGISLyCDs&feature=youtu.be We had a great time at the recent European Woodworking show and have a few snippets to share with you over the coming weeks. My favourite moment was trying out an antique moulding plane brought along by...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qI38vYEYOe0&feature=youtu.be We’ve had a great response with the Pin less leg vice over the past couple of years and customers always seem to be impressed at how simple and powerful it is in use. I also receive a lot of enquiries...
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