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Finally my website is up and running. A friend did it for me and has decided to make it live today. There may still be a few minor errors to it and we are frantically proof reading and spotting changes and improvements but at least it is live. http://www.eversleyhouse.org.uk Now I can get my...

Some of you may have realised that I have been a bit quiet here recently. I have been busy on another little project. I am attempting to make an electric car and have been writing it up on the diyelectriccar.com forum. I started out not knowing if I was going to convert or build from scratch...

My students and I are exhibiting some of our furniture work at the Platform Gallery in Clitheroe from today through September. If you are in the area it would be nice see what you think of their work. I will be there this morning and some time next week too. Hopefully see some of you there...

I'm pricing up a small job to repair and refurbish a playground slide and climbing frame for a local nursary. I need to change the climbing frame to something that isn't easily climbable so I thought about changing to vertical slats insead of horizontal ones so it is more of a play structure...

I am seriously thinking of building/converting a van to electric drive (as if I didn't have enough to do). I am thinking of something like an Escort or Astra van for the donor vehicle and then swapping all the petrol/diesel bits for and electric motor, controller and batteries. I figured...

I figured I'd better post some other work just to prove I do some. This is a TV cabinet commissioned by a client. She wanted something that would be painted to match the existing woodwork and to fill the awkward asymetric alcove. I came up with a curved front fitted cabinet that became a part...

I am in the process of designing my website. Do you have any examples of really good websites you can link to for some inspiration please? They don't have to be wood or furniture making related, they just have to look good and work well so I can figure out what people like the look, and...

I am looking for a good recommendation for some public liability insurance. Any suggestions as to who should I go with and how much cover should I look for as cabinet maker and joiner? Cheers, NT

We all have them from time to time. Having spent all day working on my roof I went on to my friend's recording studio where I am doing some work. I had built a double skin sound proof wall with two pairs of double doors in the centre of the wall to create a room within a room. Today I...

Just a pondering moment. I am refurbishing my house at the moment and have been designing a new bedroom suite on the whole top floor. It will have an ensuite a dressing room, a full 3 piece shower room and a four piece bathroom, sort of 'his and hers'. Now, the bathroom is an awkward...

This has nothing to do with me but if you like the 1930's style then this would make a great tool cabinet for a workshop. Ebay Linky I would bid on it myself but its out of my price range and I am already making my own to fit a trolley.

Here is the link to our production of Robin, Prince of Sherwood last week. I am visible in some of the photos and there are glimpses of my handiwork there too. I made all the set, build the stage build outs, Nottingham Castle (not shown), Morganna's Bar (hiding behind the camo nets), all the...

I have a student who has been making a semicircular table of about 18" radius. He wanted to rout out the semicircle from solid timber he had glued up to form the table top. The straight side of the semicircle was along the grain. I first made sure that the end grain at the start and finish of...

Towneley Hall is holding its annual exhibition of Burnley College Furniture students' work if any one want to go and see.

I am building the set for my local amateur theatre and I needed a quick way of changing the backdrop for a small build out area. I thought about painting the back drop on hardboard but being able to turn a sheet of it like the page in a picture book. The backdrop needs to be free standing or...

I am planning a stage build out for the theatre at the moment and so putting together my tools to do the job in one go. I am packing both a circular saw and a 200mm SCMS. It got me thinking. What I really wanted was a small cheap radial arm type saw on the scale of my little 200mm SCMS. Maybe...

I thought I should show you one of my pieces. It is called Chair In Flight and is made from cherry with walnut in the joints. It was my design and make piece when I was a first year student and won me two awards from the college and is still being exhibited along with some of my other pieces.

Today I have finally put together a collection of daft ideas and made a log fire for the stage. It needs to be able to be brought onto the stage, faded up for the scene and then faded back down again at the end of the scene. It looks simple but took a bit of thought to get the effect...

I am rubbish at turning! There, I've said it. All my attempts at turning have been poor. I can't turn a straight cylinder and I can't turn evenly shaped bobbins or balls, they are always lopsided so I have avoided turning.:oops: However, I was good with an engineering lathe turning metal...

I always get that extra smile on my face when I pick up certain tools in my workshop because they just feel right. They feel right even when I am not using them for the task for which they were intended. Mine are my wooden spokeshaves, Stanley 9 1/2 block plane and 4mm radius wooden moulding...