April turns to May, lockdown continues, suppliers are still closed, clients stuck behind closed doors. Clean the workshop, organise the timber stocks, time to play!
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Having admiration for Japanese aesthetics and furniture making, wanting to strip back making to a purer time, working to the largest degree with hand tools alone.
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These three items are the result.
Stick back bench
The Walnut seat plank planned using a vintage Stanley bench plane, the final cuts applied by scraper plane. Sycamore backrest sticks shaped with a spokeshave and scraper, holes bored with a brace and bit.
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£5040.00
Side Table
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The rippelling of the top surface done entirely with a carving gouge, painstakingly tracking across the grain time and again.
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£2980.00
Low Stool
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Temple-like in appearance, utilising many dovetail joints, pillow-like Sycamore corners rise through the Walnut.
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£1080.00
Please contact us for purchase enquiries.