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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 helping with farm work and messing about in the
farm workshop making weird and wonderful contraptions.
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 many trials and tribulations along
the way.
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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 when I was in America that I made my first
jewellery box.
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