Walnut and yew bureau.

This is my american black walnut and english yew bureau.  The design is a modern take on a classic theme - it is suitable for a computer with screen, keyboard etc in the top part and tower below in the cupboard.  Turned solid walnut holes allow cables to pass through from the inside work surface to the tower cupboard and behind to be plugged in.

After you finish working you can simply close the elliptical yew paneled fall and you are left with a beautiful piece of handmade solid wood furniture.  The rich colours, dramatic figuring and the exquisite (even if I do say so myself!) craftsmanship make this piece a joy to look at and use.

Seen here at the 'Furnish2' exhibition at Paintworks, Bristol.

All the drawers have traditional dovetails front and back.  With quarter sawn english oak linings and walnut slips.

Solid yew turned cable tidy disc thing.  

'Stack'

This design is a solid hardwood modular system of individual drawer boxes made from different hardwoods called 'Stack'.  The beauty of the design is that they are all interchangable and can be arranged facing any direction or off centered as long as the overall structure is balanced, and it will remain solid and fixed in place without any fittings.  There is a vast scope for personal preference and arrangements and each box is a thing of beauty and functionality in itself.  The feet attach to the bottom of any drawer box.  I've used decorative yet modern construction methods, cedar of Lebanon drawer bases for the gorgeous aroma and  the eight different European woods are ethically sourced from reputable timber suppliers.

The top drawer box is made from spalted English walnut, the one below from European elm and below that from English sycamore.  The two bottom boxes are made from English cherry and oak.  They have yew handles and a yew bowl is part of the design and fixes into place on the top of any box.

I've used oversize dovetails reinforced with walnut stepped dowels for a decorative and functional drawer design.  The drawer sides are made from English olive ash with unfinished cedar of Lebanon bases for the beautiful aroma.

Ash parquet table

Here we have a rather lovely parquet veneered side table I made from ash. The woven effect comes from cutting each individual veneer tile, shaping them all in a jig and carefully scorching the end of each one in very hot sand.  (The trick, I found, is to use tweezers!)  They were then arranged and glued down in a grid and tucked in with some ebony stringing to create this rather effective  decorative pattern..  Hope you like it.

Don't think my dodgy trainers improve this photo at all!

First Post!

So this is my first ever blog and the beginning of what will hopefully be a fairly steep learning curve!  This is all completely new to me as even though Ive had a computer for a couple of years now (took a while to join the computer age) I have never even looked at a blog until now.  So bear (rrrr!) with me a short while - Ill be getting it sorted over the next week.  Pics of work will follow as I attempt to make a decent living from creating very beautiful (in my humble opinion!) , functional items of furniture that take ages to make!
(But are worth it!)