ABOUT ME

I have worked with wood from an early age. Growing up and working with my father in his furniture-making workshop, the techniques, tools and equipment used to turn planks of hardwood into cabinets and items of furniture is second nature to me.

 

Familiarity with our native hardwoods, oak, ash, beech, walnut, elm, sycamore cherry and the fruit woods to name a few, has been something I have always taken for granted. I have experience and knowledge of their unique characters, densities, smells, forgiving and unforgiving properties, grains that take well to a hand plane and woods that blunt the blades quicker than others.

 

I have worked in several large and small-scale factories and workshops both as wood machinist and bench joiner in and around the beech woods and town of High Wycombe, considered the centre of furniture making in Britain.

 

After a period working as forester having first moved to Wales, I became self-employed working by myself, predominantly making bespoke joinery items for private clients and builders. These include staircases, external doors and windows many of which have been fitted to old buildings within the National Park.

 

I have extensive experience communicating a vision of the work to clients, turning ideas into scaled working drawings and producing the final piece according to the client’s needs. The scaled drawings being essential for items such as unusual staircases or bespoke chalet style buildings.