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“For as long as I live, I will never make a chess set!”, I once said, and when I said it, I meant it. However, several months ago I actually fancied having a go at Read more…
“For as long as I live, I will never make a chess set!”, I once said, and when I said it, I meant it. However, several months ago I actually fancied having a go at Read more…
It’s a few years since I last made any of these and if I recall correctly, I made about ten pair of them. The first pair was made for the John Lewis Partnership, at their Read more…
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…
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…
We have really mixed feelings at our home tonight; for today we completed the task of emptying our shop of every scrap of stock, of furniture, of packing materials and admin paperwork. At 5:30, when Read more…
We’ve had good news from a couple of the galleries that we’ve sent work to, with bowls and pots starting to sell, so we’ve been out and about over the last week or two, keeping Read more…
90 Years ago, a gang of roadmen in the village of Llanharry in South Wales, made an amazing discovery, a grave, complete with skeleton and drinking vessel, and the whole thing was more than 4,000 Read more…
It seems much longer than five weeks since we closed up for Christmas, so what have we been up to? Tuition has taken up much of my time from the first few days of January, Read more…
Well, that’s another year over, and what year it’s been! Way back in January we were having major problems with the builders of our former web-site, so by February and March, I was working on Read more…
I’ve just finished a very special commission! Last March, at a meeting of the Register of Professional Turners in London, I learned of a project to use pieces of timber taken from the bell-headstocks of Read more…