For some there is a stigma surrounding veneer, and a belief that furniture made from it, is something to avoid. This rather unfair perception is often not helped by the adverts we see on television…

Wood is by nature, a biodegradable and dimensionally unstable material, but the process of modification changes that. Modified wood has greater durability, resistance to swelling and shrinkage, and increased hardness (and therefore greater resilience to wood boring insects). The acetylation process also reduces moisture in the cell wall to the point where there isn’t enough to support fungal decomposition.

Woodturning is a unique and useful skill in the world of woodworking.

There will always be projects that call for shaped timber detailing – even if it’s something as simple, or low key as some feet for a grandfather clock, or hand turned fixings for an occasional table…

Japanese carpentry is traditionally intimately bound up with the history of architecture in Japan…

Constructional veneer comes in a variety of timbers and it is thin and pliable enough to bend. You can simply spread glue on their surfaces and clamp them in layers to the shape that you desire and leave in place for the glue to set…