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Building stock
With a whole month of sales behind them, the three galleries where my stock is constantly on show have each been selling well. We also have a fourth sales point, at a gallery attached to Read more…
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Great oaks…….!
One of the more unusual jobs that I’ve recently been asked to do is to turn a matching pair of post-topping acorns, a traditional design for a decorative finial on large gate posts. The customer Read more…
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We’re Good To Go!
Pren's Woodturning Tuition Facility is Back in Business and Ready to Go!
Training
Do I spoil my students?
Probably about 60% of my income, prior to lock-down, has come from teaching woodturning techniques to private students who are either thinking of taking up turning as a hobby, or already turning and wanting to Read more…
Publications
Cloak and Dagger
Once a month, every month, I down tools in the workshop and turn to the laptop as my main source of work, by writing an article for Woodturning magazine. Sometimes these articles are about techniques, Read more…
Commissions
Pixie Houses….who’d have thought it!
In these uncertain times which can be very hard on small businesses, we self employed artisans have to find alternate ways to earn a living. Purely by chance, such an alternative came my way a Read more…
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Lockdown Garden
With all the shops and galleries closed where I normally sell, and with demonstrations cancelled and all one-to-one teaching on hold, we’re not exactly busy with the usual things, so our time has been mostly Read more…
Commissions
Something new for me!
When the Coronavirus lock-down bit hard into the lives of artists and crafts-people, I had just finished developing the tuition side of my business, along with distributing all my work around a variety of galleries Read more…
Exhibitions
Lock-down laziness?
Greetings from Bala in lock-down, where my lathe must be wondering if I’ve forgotten where its on/off switch is! Apart from turning a few sample pieces for an article that I was writing, two weeks Read more…