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Making Shavings With ‘Little John’

October 25, 2012 By Helen 15 Comments

  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 a rather grumpy mood (see if you can tell!) he decided to knock up a simple box so … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Free Videos, Woodworking Projects

The Wheelwright

October 22, 2012 By Helen Leave a Comment

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 and steam might upset the … [Read more...]

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The Little John – Small Hand Tool Workbench

October 18, 2012 By Helen 12 Comments

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 European Woodworking Show we’re … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Workbench Designs, Workbenches

Prague Marionettes at the EWS

October 16, 2012 By Helen 7 Comments

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 accidentally by the craftsman. At the … [Read more...]

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Making the Past our Future

October 11, 2012 By Richard Maguire 4 Comments

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 accurately every time. Besides the … [Read more...]

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Workbench Designs

October 5, 2012 By Richard Maguire 19 Comments

Completed English Workbench

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 designs was clear cut or defined … [Read more...]

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18th Century Cornice Plane (Video)

October 3, 2012 By Richard Maguire 1 Comment

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 Richard Arnold. This was my first … [Read more...]

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Does it Hold?

October 2, 2012 By Richard Maguire 2 Comments

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 from people who are rather … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Maguire Workbenches

The Blacksmith

September 19, 2012 By Helen 1 Comment

Following up from yesterday’s post on our cupboard hardware - we’ve had a few emails enquiring about the blacksmith who made the pieces so I felt it would be worth providing a bit of background. James Kendrew is an apprentice trained blacksmith and so continues the traditions and techniques of … [Read more...]

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Medieval Cupboard – The Hardware

September 18, 2012 By Helen 2 Comments

We had a lovely surprise today when we found out that the hardware for our cupboard had been completed early. To be honest that’s an understatement, unwrapping each piece was definitely more exciting than Christmas. I was fairly anxious because I knew exactly how I wanted each piece to turn out but … [Read more...]

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