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  • My Designs,  Woodworking

    The “Snipe” Office Furniture Suite

    April 13, 2024

    Just a final post showing the three pieces of the "Snipe" office furniture suite gathered together. You get a better idea of scale and positioning to see the filing cabinet and sideboard sitting either side of the corner desk.

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  • My Designs,  Woodworking

    The “Snipe” Sideboard

    April 6, 2024

    My "Snipe" sideboard. Continuing the design cues from the filing cabinet - cut-away drawer pulls and walnut highlights - and adding asymmetric freeform slatted doors with offset handles. Everyone in the workshop loved it.

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  • My Designs,  Woodworking

    The “Snipe” Filing Cabinet

    March 29, 2024

    Next in my "Snipe" suite of office furniture is my filing cabinet. The brief was that this was to have drawers, one of which was to be big enough to hold A4 ring binders, and it was to be the partner to my "Snipe" corner desk.

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  • Creepies,  Woodworking

    Another Chocolate Creepie Please (#6)

    November 13, 2023

    Commissioned as a 5th “Wooden” Wedding Anniversary gift, I was asked to make a creepie using my Scottish olive ash and walnut using some of my previous design elements, and so I decided to do another chocolate creepie.

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  • Woodworking

    IKEA-esque Chest of Drawers

    October 9, 2023

    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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  • My Designs,  Woodworking

    Lovely Olive Ash!

    September 27, 2023

    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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  • My Designs,  Woodworking

    “Hen Harrier” Footstool – 1970s style?

    June 28, 2023

    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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  • My Designs,  Woodworking

    The “Chaffinch” Cabinet

    November 15, 2022

    The brief for this project to was to replace a small plywood table that sat at the end of a sofa...

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  • My Designs,  Woodworking

    The “Eider” Sofa Table

    April 14, 2022

    What is a sofa table? Well, it's a wee table that aims to slide in beside you when you are sitting on the sofa to give you somewhere flat to put your mug. No more trying to balance your mug on the cushion next to you! No more biscuits sliding off your plate!

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  • My Designs,  Woodworking

    A Pair of “Herons”

    November 16, 2021

    My first commission after graduating was to design a little side table, that would fit either side of the client’s couch. The width would be 20 cm, with the depth (60 cm) and height (60 cm) would match the couch. At one end of the couch there would be limited access from the side, whilst at the other end of the couch the table would be accessible from both the front and the side. I proposed two designs to the client. One design was a ‘traditional’ table, narrow, with a couple of shelves and vertical dividers to allow books to be stored on end. The second design was a little…

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  • My Designs,  Woodworking

    The “Birdcage” Coffee Table

    August 29, 2021

    During the making of the latticework for the legs of the Buzzard console table, I happened to have them lying on their sides, and I thought to myself that with a top they would make a nice coffee table. And that's the origin of the "Birdcage" Coffee Table.

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  • Woodworking

    Playing the Long Game 2

    March 28, 2021

    Two hundred rings. That's how many I was able to count in the ash tree that was to be milled at the mother-in-law's farm.

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