I can’t carry much stock but I can cover the whole Fox range now as I have a full trade dealership but my prices are around 20% below list. Just phone for a quote. 01279 812702.

NEW TOOL DEALERSHIP!
NO MORE ADDIS

All the tools I teach on my beginners courses are now stocked as un-handled Crown tools. They are all HSS and I am comfortable with their cross section shapes. I like the “Sorby” shape of handle and I don’t like the varnish dip finish of cheap handles. Once I have taught folk using my tools they usually agree so while some start off with cheap handles they soon replace them with their own. Buying un-handled saves money and saves me storage space (when you visit you will see for yourself why that is important). I still have some Addis and Draper handled tools and I will continue with Draper’s Roughing Gouge as its shape is different from Crown’s and some folk prefer it. When the remaining Addis stock is gone that’s it, I could not find another importer. Every cloud has a silver lining however Crown is a Sheffield based manufacturer so now I am further up the food chain so my prices will be keener.

Once upon a time a long while ago now woodturning was my hobby but then it became more than that as I came to depend on it as a means of easing the adverse effects of a high level of workplace stress. Eventually the day job was lost anyway to a redundancy package but being over 50 a worthwhile alternative was not to be found, so the hobby had to grow up fast and  became a small business. To join the Guild of Essex Craftsmen samples of my work were submitted and accepted so to avoid getting mixed up with now sadly degraded commercially promoted Craft Fairs I concentrate on those shows run exclusively by the Guild whose reputation for consistent high quality is now very good and spreading rapidly plus we run a fair in the village but that then attracts a high percentage of Guild Members.

My sales are mainly through Craft Fairs which are highly seasonal but my demonstrations at those fairs were very well received and led me into teaching the craft. My courses run privately all year round now in my workshop and at college for the local adult education authority as evening classes. This work peaks in the winter, nicely evening out my annual income.

I built this web-site initially in the hope of selling my goods from it but my stuff is very tactile and nobody wants to buy it from photographs. The site then evolved and grew to the point where people use it more to check me out prior to visiting either  the workshop or my shows. Now local businesses are finding it and a steady supply of commercial work is coming in as with small quantities I can be very competitive but unlike big firms I can respond to urgent or unusual requirements better.

All the buttons above are live and take you to the various sections of the site but bookmark this page you probably wont get round all of it in one go!

Due to insufficient numbers the Hertford Regional College evening classes have not run for a while. Fortunately my trade work has developed into a more than adequate replacement source of income so I have withdrawn the course. Private courses, typically one-to-one in my workshop in the meantime have proved very popular, possibly I’m getting the clients the College lost. Click below for more details.

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IT TURNS OUT THAT SPAM ADDRESS HARVESTERS ARE DUMB ROBOTS. TO BEAT THEM I AM GIVING MY ADDRESS BUT NOT IN A FORM THAT THE ROBOTS WILL BE ABLE TO SEE. IN THE FOLLOWING SIMPLY SUBSTITUTE ‘@’ FOR ‘AT’.

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