The leaves are off the trees, the clocks have gone back and it’s time to put your feet up. This is my Eider footstool to complement my Eider sofa table. In oak, finished with Osmo raw and upholstered with the customer’s own fabric. I hope you like it.
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Chest Restoration
Just a quick post about a wee job I had to restore a customer’s old shipping chest that belonged to her parents. This is a difficult one to show in the photos, but the above is a picture of the original chest. A bit dirty, a bit dusty, a bit bashed, a few splits in the wood, loose screws, a hinge that was almost detached, a bit of woodworm and an amazing patina and history that needed to be retained. So, I fixed all of the mechanical and woodwork-type issues and then went to work with some furniture restoration solution. It cleaned all of the surface muck off and at…
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IKEA-esque Chest of Drawers
Teen Daughter: “I would like an IKEA chest of drawers.” Woodworker Father: “I’ll make you a lovely chest of drawers from solid wood.”
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Lovely Olive Ash!
Tom, my son, asked for some shelves to fit an empty space in his room. The shelves were to be able to take his school notes in lever arch files, some text books and some novels...
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Dovetails and More
Next up in August was a large set of dovetailed shelves for a TV. But I also took the opportunity to do some turning and use up some offcuts.
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“Eider” Sofa Table Number 4
In August I was able to start going back to the workshop on a part-time basis. First job was to make another of my "Eider" footstools for a new customer.
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July: Chair Repairs and a Bad Back
About the only work I was able to do in July was repairing three chairs which had variously broken spindles and generally shoogly joints.
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“Hen Harrier” Footstool – 1970s style?
A footstool in my olive ash with upholstered cushion on top. I wanted to keep the 'legs' quite wide to show off the grain patterning in the olive ash and the result is that the stool has ended up looking very 1970s.
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“Summer Sky” Garden Bench
A garden bench commissioned by a friend, broadly to their design, with their colour of paint.
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Stripy Oak and Beech Creepie (#5)
In May I found that my shelves were stuffed (more than usual) with offcuts and leftovers of wood. I didn't want to throw them out, I didn't want to burn them, and I didn't want to make another chopping board - so I decided to stick them together and make a stripy creepie.
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“Thistle” Oak Table
Having seen some pictures of furniture that had been made in the 'Arts & Crafts Style', I decided to give it a go myself. I like the exposed joinery - the visible tenons, the wedges - and the other details that give such character to furniture made in that style, but I also thought that it would be a good fun to make and part of me liked the idea of the slightly masochistic approach to making joints by hand.
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Spring 2023 Update
Since Christmas I have been working on a variety of jobs. The most interesting request - or challenge - was to make two "Dali" console tables featuring very sculptural legs and rails.
