Okay, let’s forget all the nonsense associated with this year and start tomorrow afresh. As if the spring and summer lockdown wasn’t difficult enough to ride out, and the autumn “Firebreak” equally tricky, the sudden Read more…
It’s a strange word, “Craft”! On the one hand we associate it with craftsmen and we can look back to Mediæval times when stonemasons, silversmiths, tanners and many other crafts established their craft guilds, with Read more…
This weekend has seen both great joy and great sadness. For a few years I have been liaising frequently with a gentleman called Mark Baker; one of the great ambassadors of the wood-turning world, who Read more…
How not to end a week!
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…
Every once in a while a piece of wood comes my way that deserves something special. Last year I met Rob, an arborist from Oswestry, and Rob let me buy a few sycamore burrs that Read more…
Going professional 4 years ago brought many challenges, not least of all, having to learn to take a photograph! OK, I already knew how to point a camera at a bowl and to take a Read more…
A Night at the Opera, well, not really, but more like three months at the theatre! Our friends at Theatr Clwyd contacted us a few days ago to ask whether or not we could help 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…