This piece of bog oak had to be treated with some wood hardner before the letters could be cut out,
it sits at the entrance of a house with a spot light shining across the face of it at night,and looks very well with the letters standing out.
cleaned the wood with a router to give me a flat face to work with and then removed area around the letters.
finished with teak oil.

this is a wallnut clock i made.brass pendulum comes out both sides hope you like.

This was a strange request,a lady had a christmas tissue box but missed it after it was put away,so i was asked to make a box.
My instructions were -it had to be rough.
So it suited me (roughs my middle name),
But i got to thinking, this is in a home sitting on a coffee table or other, its going to be handled perhaps a lot.
So it had to look rough but in the mean time be user friendly.

So i began, mind you not knowing what i was going to do.
I had an oak log drying in my shed which i hollowed out and left to dry further in my house.
i made a plywood box using the original as a template and used small magnets to hold the bottom on.

A few weeks passed and several other projects when i remembered about the log.
Its in the hot press where you put it, and i’ve been triping over it for the last six weeks. says my loving and tollarant wife!

I cut two sides from the log glued them onto the ply box,
I then took the rough bark off using a gouge chisel and sanded with a soft sanding pad then veneered the box with oak.

The finish is two coats of sanding sealer and seven coats of tinted wax, which really shows out the grain,and then buffed to a shine, finally i put a crushed velvet base to protect any surfaces its placed on.

I think i acheived a rough looking box which should be easely kept clean.
I really enjoyed this project,small but gives you heart.

I was told this piece looks like a ladys high heel boot.I cut out for the mirror and clock with the router,the clock has a westminster chime,and moon phase.I put this up on the wall of local shop and 1hr later a lady just had to have it home with her.

I was recently asked to make 8 garden benches for some local irish cottages for tourists. 6 were straight forward (or to quote the plan ”easy to build”),
the other 2 had to be 22.5 degrees to fit around a corner.
this was my first production line project and hopefully not the last.
dam this took up some room in my small shed.
The only difference from the plan insted of dowels i used loose tenons for strength where needed,
the finish is danish oil.

This is an ash bench for indoors.
I left the live edge on and cut through haunched mortice & tenon joints ascentuated with wallnut wedges, finished with plastic coat sprayed on laquer.
I carefully first cut the mortice with a router squaring up with a sharp chisel and then hand cut the tenons to fit snug.
The wood was got at a local sawmill and kiln dried.
the project didn’t take long to make about a day and then sprayed after that.