All About

I started making furniture in 1981 while we renovated our first house, Craigmore Farm, Scotland and started our family of three boys. It was a slow start with furniture making as money and tools were in short supply. Everything I made then was literally done with a few hand tools, no power equipment. Gradually over the years I have added various power tools just as I have added grey hairs. My schooling for making furniture was trial and error in my workshop along with various books and magazines accumulated through the years.

Between my various other commitments over the years I made furniture and developed guiding principles in an effort to produce unique and high quality pieces. As you will no doubt see by the above title, ‘perfect jointing’ is one of those principles. Too often production short-cuts result in joints designed to fail. Another important principle in jointing and overall design involves the exclusion of metal in favour of the tightest and strongest wood joints possible. Attention to the method of assembly is therefore important. Choosing the type of wood and character of the wood for projects is also important to ensure a complementary appearance. Finally, my preference is to finish with oils and wax as they look good, protect the wood, are relatively easily repaired if required and the work to some extent can be carried out by the customer.

Now I invite you to look at the photo gallery of pieces of furniture I have made over the past almost forty years. Unfortunately some pieces were missed by the photographer’s eye and some included are not sharply in focus. The gallery is a fair representation of my work and the majority of pieces are wood alone.

My current project will eventually finish with a log house built “piece on piece” style.

Thanks for your interest.

Steve