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From an early age I was tinkering about in my fathers garage and my formative years were spent with a friend on his family farm making weird and wonderful contraptions. This early experience started me on the path to becoming a craftsman in years to come.

At the age of twenty I decided working with wood was what I wanted to do. I threw myself into the craft with real enthusiasm and slowly built my skill levels up with trial and tribulation along the way.

 

My journey took me from working initially in Leicester, to Bingley in West Yorkshire and then to the Cotswolds before returning to Leicestershire to begin self employment in the 1990’s. (Tooley Park Furniture).

I’m always striving to learn new skills, and in 2004 I attended “The College of the Redwoods”, a world renowned woodworking school in California. Here the emphasis was very much on the development of hand skills. It was in America that my interest in making boxes began.

My workshop companion and me.