Clock the difference

I like a challenge, which is exactly what I got when my latest job arrived in the workshop! It is a Scottish tall case

A genuine barn find

The next job on the list was a restoration, this time a Victorian blanket box. I had bought it last year to be used

It’s been a long time since I last posted, so I thought it would be a good time to catch everyone up with what

Sometimes a piece of timber talks to you, and you know exactly what you want to build with it. This is kind of like

In case you hadn’t guessed by now, I quite like restoring hand tools. So when a friend of a friend asked me to restore

A delivery driver I’ve known for a good while came and found me the other day whilst I was doing my day job. He

A great little job came into the workshop the other day, a travel chest or steamer trunk that needed some fixing up: It needed

My girlfriend, Janie, is also a furniture maker, and until her recent relocation to new premises she shared shop space in a large workshop

I wrote in a previous post that the favourite hand plane I own is my Rapier 3 plough plane, made by the Anglo Scottish

I’ve been doing a lot of dovetails recently, and although I’m happy with the technique I use for making them, I’ve never been happy