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This page features my woodturning and some of my cabinet work.
I am a woodturner, I went on my first woodturning course when I was nine. I have only recently been able to start wood turning again. Have been turning for six years know and have made many items, most of them are included on this page. Through my skills I have also made some commission pieces for corporate company's.
I don't specialise in a particular area I just make anything I fancy or anything that someone wants me to make for them.
This is a small bedside cabinet that I made as part of my college work.
This is a picture of it before I sprayed it in clear lacquer. The cabinet is made in Russian pine and has very few knots. For this piece I got a credit.
The drawer and main carcase has dovetails at all the key jointing areas.
Started this at the age of nine when I first became interested in woodwork.
Still not finished but I am taking my time on this one because It is so difficult.
It is a Victorian corner shop with real slat roof tiles. I intend to wire each room up with power so that is can be lit with dolls house size lights.
A small shallow vase made out of English elm.
This was made for my grandparents wedding anniversary.
A display piece made of beach.
The edge has been turned in to a bead shape so as to add the black band.
The centre has been stencilled with gold. This item is meant for show.
7mm twist pens turned in wood and man made materials. these take quite a while to make.
Finished with 2 coats of sanding sealer and beeswax.
The plastic ones are finished with plastic polish.
This is an of centre table lamp.
Made in lime and finished with lemon oil.
My Record Power wood turning Lathe,
using my cabinet making skills I made some trays for the lathe.
The tool rack was made by me using an old pine shelf.
The lathe is a three speed with a belt driven head stoke.
I do all my work on this lathe.
A view of the back part of the workshop. The bench at the back comes in use for many things including french polishing.
As you can see I have a tall two speed bandsaw. I use this to cut my blanks to size ready for turning. It can also be used to cut plastic.
This is my micro air filter, costs just over a hundred pounds.
It is a valuable asset to any workshop and keep me from breathing in the fine dust produced when sanding.
A simple candle holder. made in a wood that I found in the garden.
The black band was made by burning it in with a thin piece of wire, whilst the lathe was on.
I finished this with a coat of friction polish and some beeswax to give it that extra shine.
A small pot turned in yew. The contrast between the sap wood and heartwood has made a lovely grain affect and added to the characteristics.
The top is made in ripple sycamore turned with a small finial.
Finished in two coats of a product made with orange oil.
Two bowels turned by me. Both finished in friction polish.
The one on the left is made in ash.
The one on the right an exotic wood called purple heartwood.
My Mum made this cake for her and my step dads wedding. I made the wooden rings to go on top. The rings are made from a rare specie of mahogany.
Both rings are finished with cellulose sanding sealer to maker the food safe.
A tall box made from ripple sycamore finished with a coat of oil.
I made this on a teenager turning weekend with the professional wood turner Mark Baker ( Not Related to me).
A view of the front end of the workshop, you can see it is a little messy.
The shelves are packed with different types of wood that I have collected.
If you can offer me any more wood that you don't want. Please contact me.
A Deco style bow fronted bedside cabinet. It is veneered in English oak.
One one of the sides I have had to replace a veneer patch. I am staining it walnut to hide the restored part.
I will French polish it with a clear polish and the try and sell it.
The front view of the bedside cabinet.
This cabinet was made by a company called Lebus. The company has since been closed down.
During the war the factory stopped making furniture, and made barrage balloons for the war effort.
Harry Lebus furniture was one of the biggest furniture factory's of the time. The Lebus name was a household name and was known for its high quality furniture.
Me replacing webbing on an Ercol sofa.
The front view of an American reed organ. Made in American walnut with Tudor style carving on the panels.
It has been attached by woodworm and beetles on inside where all the workings are. The insects have gone for this part to the piece because it is made from the soft heartwood. They can get lot's of carbohydrates from this part of the wood.
I will have to treat this for woodworm and beetles. then Make repairs to the parts they have damaged. I may have to pay out for it to be treated in a fuming cuboard this will ensure that all eggs and remains are dead.
A G-plan table made from veneered chipboard. The veneer is a species of mahogany. I have had to use pigmant stains to cover a part in the top where you could see the chipboard coming through.
The whole thing has be hand french polished using a dark polish.
Then finished with a layer of fine paste wax this will help to protect the couler from fading and the French polish.
This picture isn't brilliant I am afraid, I have tried to make it brighter but it hasn't worked.
This is of me when I was 9 on my first wood turning course. I am holding two tool handles the one on the left I turned and still use.
A picture of a small Windsor chair in the glueing stage. This had to be treated for woodworm.
It is made form a light wood called beach. It was probably made in a factory where batches of them where made.
Maybe made in a factory in High Wicome where most solid wood furniture is made.
A picture of my Record Power industrial vac. This is very handy for picking up wood chippings. Like all my tools I paid for it with my own money.
This is everybody who went on the teenage woodturning days. As you can see there where people of all ages.
The pot I made on one of the teenage wood turning days. This is made out of English Yew. Finished with a layer of orange wax.
A view of the second teenage woodturning day I went on.
Made out of lacewood.
Some work made by young people at a young turners event.
More work from the event.
A picture of my grinder, on it you can see a piece of MDF with two pencil lines on it.
The top one is for parting tools and skews. The bottom one for gouges and everything else.
A gallery piece made for the association of wood turners gallery.
Me in the workshop.
Me hollowing a shallow vase.
A shallow vase made out of burr oak also known as cat's paw oak. Finished with several layers of oil.
A small table I made at college. This is made from sycamore and has a laquar spray finish.
The top is made from MDF and is veneered with birds eye maple.
This is a console table I am building. It is currently still as a frame but it will have a top soon. Made from English oak.
A close up of the joints used to make the shape.
When it is finished it will be a half round table with a drawer.
Another close up of my dovetail joints.
The veneer work i have done at the top of all the legs.
They are hard to make and very time consuming. But look great when they are polished up.
The white is maple and the diamond is made from a bur of some sort. The stringing is the same stuff they use on musical instruments.
The college oil stones, we use these to sharpen our tools.
unforchantly they are getting hollow in the middle because of the amount of people that don't use the properly.
The college overhead router, a very expensive piece of equipment.
Has more uses than a hand one and in my opinion much safer.
The thickness er used to get wood to the write thickness.
Electric planner used to get a straight edge on the wood before we put it through the thickness er.
The table saw can be used to cut raw lumber and parts.
Morticer used to cut mortises if you are to lazy to cut them by hand or you want to make them quickly.
Cross cut saw for cutting wood planks. The head can be tilted to get different angles.
Sometimes used top make lap joints.
The press used to put pressure on veneers whilst they are drying.
The plates can be heated to make the glue go off quickly.
Large disc sander used to sand end grain on large pieces of wood e.g wardrobe sides.
Only problem is take a while to stop once you have switched it off.
Overhead belt sander used to sand sides of cabinets or table tops.
The sides of my table, have been veneered with oak as you can see here.
The glue I used was a contact adhesive it's almost like working with stringy rubber.
A view of the walnut edging I used.
My work on display at a woodturning show.
The banding on my top. As you can see the base is made from MDF.
Top again
This is a box I restored. It was covered in white paint I had to strip off. The box is made from ply oak and had to have new veneer and a drawer and top. But now it is finished it looks a lot better. I have finished it with a spray finish to protect the veneer.
The old and the new drawer.
The four pictures above are of a commission piece that I was asked to make. They are spindals for Windsor chairs.
The corner of the top showing the walnut banding to match the curves on the table.
The pictures above are of my finished console table. I am pleased to say that I managed to find room for it. I think you will agree that is looks stunning.
I was asked to make a copy of the drawer handle on the left. Mine is the one on the right normally it would have been made of the black wood ebony, But I had non to hand so made it out of a white wood which can be sprayed black with car body paint.
Again another copy I was asked to make.
But I can't remember which one I made.
I used dark french polish to make it match the original.
This is a small vase made from a piece of burr elm.
I used oil on this to give it a matt finish.
A small pot made from beach, I used wire to burn the black band round the base.
A piece of log that I put on the lathe and turned the centre out of.
I like this piece because you can see the natural bark and the grain polished up.
Another one of my artistic moments.
Made from sycamore an English white wood.
I used a brush to make the blue dots.
This base is made form Zebrano wood hence the black lines in the grain.
I had a go at making a miniature goblet.
A square bowl made from mahogany. My first go at making a square bowl.
A jewellery box made from sycamore, the banding on the front is mahogany and the centre piece is birds eye maple.
This was my level three test piece.
This is a bench I have made from some reclaimed wood.The wood was originally used for scaffold planks.
