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Ashley Iles Chisel Delivery
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2020 Shows We Are Attending
Come and see us at the following shows throughout the year, we will add more information about the demonstrators we will have with us at the various events to our website and in our newsletter nearer the time.
British Hardwoods Open Day
8 February 2020
Cross Hills, Keighley, BD20 7BW
Visit www.britishhardwoods.co.uk for more information
The Midlands Woodworking Show
27 & 28 March 2020
Newark Showground, Nottingham NG24 2NY
Visit www.nelton.co.uk for more information
Makers Central
2 & 3 May 2020
NEC Birmingham, B40 1NT
Visit www.makerscentral.co.uk for more information
Yandles Woodworking Show
11& 12 September 2020
Yandle & Sons Ltd, Martock, Somerset TA12 6JU
Visit www.yandles.co.uk for more information
North of England Woodworking Show
13, 14 & 15 November 2020
Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate HG2 8QZ
Visit www.skpromotions.co.uk for more information
We will be adding more events as they are confirmed, watch this space.
London International Woodworking Festival
The London International Woodworking Festival looms large on the horizon.
The brainchild of Derek Jones, latterly editor of Furniture & Cabinetmaking Magazine. this new event enjoys an urban location in East London with quite a stellar first line up for the discerning woodworker.
Courses are running before and after the 26th & 27th October weekend festival (more info on courses here ) as well as a seminar programme during the festival. The seminars are included in the entrance fee to the show. Tickets can be bought in advance here.
Classic Hand Tools have been invited to attend the Tool Bazaar which runs only on the Saturday and Sunday. We will bring along a selection of fine hand tools and will have Roger Benton from Lie-Nielsen Toolworks with us on our stand plus the extremely knowledgeable Richard Arnold who is representing Mortise & Tenon Magazine.
Chris Schwarz will be popping by to sign copies of Lost Art Press Books from time to time when not delivering his seminars. We will have a selection of Bad Axe Saws for sale and many other sundry high quality hand tools. If you have any special requests then please let us know well in advance as we simply can’t bring everything! We are also offering to ship tools bought at the show to your address so you don’t have to lug tools across London if using public transport.
We are not the organisers of the festival, just glad to be invited. The festival website has most if not all of the answers to questions you may have.
We hope to see you there for what we hope will be the first of many London International Woodworking Festivals.
New Tools from Fine Furniture Maker
Classic Hand Tools has a long established relationship with Rowden Farm Workshop.
We are pleased to announce we are now exclusive stockists of the fantastic range of handmade tools made at Rowden Atelier. Their range includes Dovetail Marking Gauges, Marking Gauge with Outside Bevel, Winding Sticks, Straight Edges, Small and Large Squares and Large French Curves.
Marking Gauge with Outside Bevel in Rosewood and Maple 
Winding Sticks Mahogany 
Straight Edge in Rosewood and Mahogany 
Large Square Mahogany and Rosewood 
Small Square Rosewood and Mahogany 
Large French Curves 
Dovetail Marking Gauge 1:8 Rosewood and Maple
Fine Furniture Maker offer a range of high quality heritage hand tools. A large number of them are inspired by David Savage himself. For example the French Curves are copies of those borrowed by David Savage from Mr Chandler which David considered to be an essential part of his furniture building studio.
The squares, straight edges, dovetail marking gauges and winding sticks are all classic tools and are used daily in the Rowden woodworking workshop.
We will have these tools with us at forthcoming shows London International Woodworking Festival and the North of England Woodworking Show in Harrogate.
Classic Hand Tools Develop Their Skills With Local Course Providers
Mike, Mary and Fraser recently completed a 5 day course making a chair with Cretingham Crafts
Stewart taught them all aspects of making a chair without using glue or wedges. The magic of green woodworking. They learnt how to use various hand tools including drawknives, froes and spokeshaves to develop skills including cleaving, shaving, tenoning, steam bending and weaving the seats. You do not need any previous experience and all the tools are provided for you.
Fantastic chairs made by all of them and a course to be recommended, described as relaxing by some….
Creating back legs 
Sanding front legs 
Scraping the back legs 
Hard at work 
4 rails 
Fraser’s completed back 
The backs are completed. 
Steam bending the back legs 
Frame is nearly there 
Applying finishing oil 
Just the seat to go 
Chair frames completed 
Busy creating his pattern 
Who will finish first? 
How much longer….. 
Fraser’s seat is complete 
Mike & Mary’s completed chairs 
Sidney, Mary, Stewart & Mike with their completed chairs.
Last week Joy and Mary spent a couple of days on the Sudbourne Printmakers workshop developing their woodcut printing skills. A wonderful location to do a course, including a trip to the local pub at lunchtime – can’t be bad! The workshops run with 4 people creating woodblock prints and 4 people etching – 2 tutors with each group. As well as creating their prints using different methods Joy and Mary learnt about how to use the tools including sharpening them (something lots of people are wary of doing).
Marking up the Lino before cutting with the Pfeil lino tools 
Creating the block with Pfeil tools 
Crating rainbow backgrounds 
Using the press to create the print 
1 block on a background 
Creating the print 
Using the block more than once 
1 block on a background 
Using the smaller press 
First test print 
1 block on background 
2 blocks on background
Makers Central – NEC Birmingham – 11 & 12 May
Come and see us at Makers Central again this year on stands A1, A2, P7, P8 and P9. We are being joined again this year by Tormek and for the first time we will have demonstrators from Lie-Nielsen Toolworks and Arbortech.
Lie-Nielsen Toolworks (P7) – we will have Roger Benton demonstrating Lie-Nielsen tools for us. Roger owns and operates RE-CO BKLYN, a custom design/build furniture shop and urban lumber harvesting operation specializing in harvesting storm damaged trees for lumber in the New York City area. His shop specializes in large, live edge slab tables and desks, as well as solid wood stand-alone furniture. Since it was an interest in classic hand tools and techniques that drew him to furniture making, Roger’s classes always involved choosing, tuning, and getting the most out of planes, handsaws, and chisels.
Arbortech (A2) – Simon Clements will be demonstrating the Arbortech tools. Simon describes himself as a woodcarver, sculptor and educator. Therefore, visitors may know of Simon through his courses at the Sylva Wood Centre where he has a workshop. Simon will show just how easy power carving can be using Arbortech.
Tormek (A1) – Pontus Gyllby from Tormek, Sweden is demonstrating the Tormek sharpening system. Pontus has been with Tormek for over 20 years and has played a big part of the company’s growth and success in recent times. With his experience and knowledge in edge tool sharpening, he will demonstrate the sharpening of woodturning, woodworking and other edge tools. Learn how Tormek is the best way to make sharpening easy.
Event opening times are 10am till 6pm on the Saturday and 10am till 4pm on the Sunday.
Midlands Woodworking Show
Friday 22 & Saturday 23 March 10am-4pm
Newark Showground, Newark, Nottinghamshire NG24 2NY
We are doing things a little different at this years Midlands Woodworking Show. We are being joined by a number of other demonstrators some of whom you will remember from the European Woodworking Shows.
Brian Walsh
Brian Walsh is a versatile craftsman who makes his living from his woodworking skills.
Lee Stoffer is a green woodworker with a passion for spoon carving, carving bowls and other functional and beautifully hand carved treen as well.
Curtis Turner – Lie-Nielsen Toolworks
Curtis traces his interest in woodworking to his early childhood and still has the first toolbox he made from scraps at the age of 10. Curtis was a customer before joining the Lie-Nielsen team in 2007. His first Lie-Nielsen plane was a No. 4½ bench plane and remains a favourite tool.
Fiona Kingdon makes unique scrollwork suggested by the wood she finds, the landscapes she loves, their inhabitants, and their stories.
International Boatbuilding Training College (IBTC)
The International Boatbuilding Training College provides the widest range of boatbuilding training in the world and is internationally recognized for the quality of its graduates.
MAC Timbers will be bringing their wide selection of British Hardwood blanks and boards.
Over The Wireless – Kieran Binnie
Kieran Binnie is a luthier, writer, and regular contributor to Furniture & Cabinetmaking magazine. R
Oliver Sparks is a planemaker working from a rural Northamptonshire workshop. He likes to work high end, and blends traditional craftsmanship and contemporary design.
Skelton Saws are first class tools and true pieces of fine handmade English craftsmanship. Handcrafted from the finest quality timber, the handle of a Skelton Saw is produced from beautifully figured rosewood.
Every horse is a handcrafted individual; ready-to-ride horses are available from stock, or you can commission a ‘Special’, made to your own preferred size and style.
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The Windsor Workshop Travishers
James Mursell of The Windsor Workshop has recently updated his range of travishers, we now offer all three:
Deluxe Travisher – the first of the new models is made of the engineering polymer Delrin with a solid brass toe insert in front of the blade.
Wood Travisher – this is the original Windsor Workshop travisher that has been in production for over ten years, made from Hard Maple.
Black Travisher – the second of the new models is completely made from Delrin, having similar if not better wearing properties than the wood travisher and is almost indestructible, totally waterproof and crack proof.
