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Dovetails Woodworking Tuition courses for 2023 – ELEMENTS

Patrick Baxter — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 18:55:58 +0000

Dovetails Woodworking Tuition courses for 2023 – ELEMENTS

Essential hand skills and knowledge to aid woodworkers and furniture makers, split into five 6 hour long modules.

For full information look here : https://www.thewoodplace.com/services/woodworking-tuition/#Elements

Numbers: There are up to 7 spaces available for each Element.

Cost: £90 per Element or £425 for all 5 (=£85 ea).

Where: Held at The Wood Place, ML11 8LL.

Included: Lunch as well as teas, coffees and snacks throughout the day, is included. There are a number of FREE HAND TOOLS given away, as well as the use of the full stock of house tools.

Booking: Please contact Patrick for availability and booking or further information. Use the email patrick@thewoodplace.com for all initial correspondence.

Ability: Intermediate. Hand skills improvement.

Dates : 10 am – 4 pm each of the dates below

1. SHARPENING : Sunday 26th February 2023

2. HAND PLANING : Sunday 12th March

3. DOVETAILS : Sunday 26th March

4. SURFACE PREPARATION : Sunday 9th April

5. POLISHING : Sunday 23rd April

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Burr Horse Chestnut River Dining Table

Patrick Baxter — Sat, 10 Mar 2018 20:15:27 +0000

Burr Horse Chestnut River Dining Table

Recently completed furniture commission by Patrick Baxter Furniture

https://www.facebook.com/pg/thewoodplaceuk/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1859901677413615

Satin Black powder coated steel legs / frame by ROC Workshops, 10mm Toughened Glass by Hurry Bros, Glasgow

Clear epoxy resin fill to some of the holes. Danish Oil finish.

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OLIVE ASH BOOKMATCHED WATERFALL COFFEE TABLE

Patrick Baxter — Sun, 29 May 2016 11:40:46 +0000

some more pics of the coffee table we made recently for the new showroom / shop area using some of our figured olive ash; 2 boards bookmatched and then mitred and folded in 2 places to create a waterfall effect of grain flowing over the edge of the table; we (or should I say David in the workshop who made this one) filled the splits with epoxy resin with a little dark pigment added for a mysterious depth to the fill and then some laburnum butterfly keys were cut and fitted, more for effect than out of necessity. Now I see it complete I would like to add a smaller single one up on the top in the smaller ‘tail’ of epoxy, which I think would just finish it off nicely. Liberon danish oil finish.

It will be for sale but haven’t worked out a cost yet…the seating area and table are to create a more relaxed shopping / browsing experience at the same time as showing off some of the wood in its finished form.

More of our furniture can be viewed on the gallery pages http://www.thewoodplace.com/galleries/ although there are many more recent pics not yet on there so scanning through the facebook page https://www.facebook.com/lanarkshirehardwoods/photos is the best place to see more recent work.

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Cosy Corner – new seating & showroom area in the woodshop

Patrick Baxter — Thu, 05 May 2016 21:55:31 +0000

Olive Ash bi-fold coffee table with epoxy resin fill and laburnum butterfly keys; burry elm river mirror; yew flooring

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Restoring leather cushions

Patrick Baxter — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 21:51:59 +0000

After the dust settled and the guys had gone home I got in the workshop this evening and did some antique restoration. These 4 red leather cushions are from seats in the Signet Library in Edinburgh’s old town, a private library for Edinburgh WSs, that’s writers to the signet, an organisation that all the best Edinburgh lawyers and solicitors are part of. My father was one and I might have been one if I hadn’t got distracted by wood and furniture making when I was meant to be studying law at Edinburgh Uni 30 odd years ago. The library is a lovely old building and most of the furniture dates from the early 1800’s when the library was built. These days the furniture takes a lot of abuse as the library hosts a lot of functions, weddings etc to pay its way and when the drink is flowing…well, these cushions were the most recent casualties. There is a very smart restaurant/café open sometimes, it is open now during the Edinburgh Festival, so anyone can go along and be indulged in beautiful surroundings! Afternoon tea is one of their specialities : http://www.thesignetlibrary.co.uk/colonnades/

I have been lucky enough to have been their furniture restorer for about the last decade. There is a lot of evidence of past poor quality bodge job restoration in most of the pieces there but nevertheless my approach is always authentic reversible antique restoration, so I use traditional materials like the animal glue used here, which can be undone in the future by softening with heat, without doing any damage to the surrounding materials.

For rips like these I cut small scraps of leather and insert in behind and beneath the tear, rough side up, then quickly apply just the right amount of warm animal glue and tease the torn pieces back together. Sometimes a little persuasion is required . When the glue has dried tomorrow I will see if I can find some red wax or else make some up with some light wax mixed with earth pigment and give the seats a good feed – some collectors like to leave them looking totally bare but the fact is that wax will make the leather supple which will give a longer lifespan to the other weak areas of the cushion and hopefully stop any more tears – as long as there are no more bridesmaids using them as trampolines!

Patrick @ The Wood Place

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