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Can I charge more if its art?

Every workshop has too have a few steady clients,  bread and butter products that keep coming, and one of mine involves the manufacture of Professional Makeup Mirrors which are then sold by http://www.fitzrobbie.co.uk or available to hire through http://www.trafalgarlighting.co.uk . In … Continue reading

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Is it a Flower or is it a lamp Post?

Now even by my standards this is an unusual project. I have started work with a lighting designer who has been engaged to light a new sculpture about to be installed in a public park in the near future. The sculpture is based … Continue reading

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The Worlds Most Comfortable Garden Bench

 I have been on holiday for the last week, we didn’t go anywhere but I didn’t go to work, so it counts as a holiday and its given me a chance to catch up with some jobs, and in between take … Continue reading

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Tales of the Riverbank

Occasionally life shines upon you and presents opportunities that are too good to resist, and this weekend  was one of these days when I was given the opportunity to go aboard the Queens Row barge the Gloriana. Built for the Queens jubilee … Continue reading

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The Duck becomes a swan

Another day off, don’t you love summer, and so another day working on my bread oven, It’s hard to imagine we have gone from a pile of bricks to this,and finally as you can see the structure is complete, with … Continue reading

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The Most Relaxing Video in the World

I have had a little time to play recently, and I finally got round to making a video of my smoker in operation. Not an instructional video, but rather a “just enjoy the moment video”. An experiment like a popular … Continue reading

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I want to be an apprentice

Occasionally life smiles upon you, and this week was one of those occasions. I was lucky to go with a party of fellow wheelwrights to an after hours private view around the Royal Mews, escorted by their coachmen. For the want … Continue reading

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cooking sauce or hair remover?

I have been making my own sauces for several years, it began when I started making my own bacon, when I wanted to do the whole thing, bacon, bread, and brown sauce, and I do have to say it was … Continue reading

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Its time for an experiment

Last weekend I created my stone lined fire basket and very popular it is too. As always there is a video and that’s just been published, so if you would like to see a middle aged man at the height of … Continue reading

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A man gets on a bike

A picture of a man holding a bicycle wheel is never going to be that exciting to look at. Until you look carefully As a wheelwright I am used to making and repairing wooden wheels, for carriages, early vintage cars, cannons, … Continue reading

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