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The simplest joinery
No complicated joints here. There is beauty in the simplest joinery.Board and ledge doors. Rebated boards. Clinched rosehead nails. Nothing original. It works. Drill a hole through the board and ledge....
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Sea monster chalice
After staring at the sea monster 'salt' for a while, it seemed only logical, to move it through 90 degrees and make a chalice.It could just as easily be a 'salt' or 'pig', for use next to the...
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Plank and muntin finished
So here's the plank and muntin screen with surroundings almost finished.Board and ledge doors with clinched rosehead nails, installed. And a reminder of the new windowsills.This cottage has had a lot...
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Maple chalice
Variations on a theme. Sea monster chalice in field maple.And the sea monster shoal together.
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Working the burghages
Totnes high street has a LOT of half timber-frame houses; timber frames between dividing masonry walls. Mostly built on burghage plots; long strips stretching back from the street, often making the...
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A round tuit
I've always wanted to make a round tuit, but maybe I never will. I think this bowl probably thought it had been forgotten, gathering dust and cobwebs in the corner. Looks like I did finally get round...
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Pillar bases
I've made a few steps forward with the pillars. They have been waiting patiently for bases for a while.Unlike the capitals (totally carved), I started by trying to turn the bases. I soon realised that...
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A good day for oiling
Today was a good day for oiling. The sky was glowering and threatening rain. It's been very dry here during the early summer, so any rain is a godsend. It will fall on Dartmoor, and slowly make it's...
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Another good day for oiling
Another good day for oiling. Inside today, because the rain that has been threatening for weeks, finally came, all at once! I was loving the ebonised oak bowls the other day, but this darkened, oiled...
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A day in Exeter
This blog started with a trip to Exeter, and yesterday was another. The ladies were shopping, but I had other plans. I was hoping to visit St. Nicholas Priory again, but it was closed. You can see...
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Recording pattern
It's all too easy to take photographs these days. However, it's not long ago that it wasn't so easy. In the not so distant, if I saw a carving pattern that I liked, I would sketch it out, and later...
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Devon Open Studios
Opening my home workshop for Devon Open Studios 9-24th September. Come and say hello.
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Wedges in.
Two new logs arrived yesterday. 19" of heartwood, so not so wide, but should get the rails and stiles for the next cupboard, all being well.Then it started to rain. Take shelter.Watch the garden get...
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Second log better
Sometimes you just have to work with what you have got. On this occasion I decided that the billets I got from the first log involved too much work. Luckily, I have a second log to work with.It's got...
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Hanging around.
There's a lot of hanging going on today.Carvings and paintings. Early morning sun shining on my painting 'One Morning'. Bowls out next.Then furniture..........and spoons. There will be demos of riving...
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V&A panel
The great thing about having an open workshop for two weeks, is that I actually have time to carve. With the sun streaming in it's ideal conditions, so let's crack on. I've been meaning to attempt...
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Visitors from Estonia
It's been an eventful week. Lots of visitors and some special ones from Estonia. Meelis Kihulane is a heritage woodworker from Estonia specialising in bentwood items. He has been in England this week,...
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Out came the sunshine.....
....and dried up all the rain. So Jon, the riven oak joiner, got out his froe again....I've mainly been hunkering inside while the storms raged, so hats off to all the brave souls who came to my Open...
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