Every piece begins with raw timber sourced exclusively from storm-felled English ash, oak, and wild walnut across southern woodlands. We select logs with dense grain patterns and stable moisture profiles.
Complementing native timber, we work with untreated Purbeck and Portland limestone offcuts from Dorset quarries. Each block is shaped dry, preserving natural tool marks and tactile surfaces.
Four stages at the bench
Block milling
Lathe turning
Linseed curing
Numbered stamping
Rough timber billets are hand-selected, dimensioned on the bandsaw, and left to settle in the studio atmosphere for fourteen days.
Spindles and vessels are turned by eye using hand gouges, adjusting wall thickness to celebrate the natural grain deviations.
Surfaces are hand-burnished and submerged in cold-pressed organic linseed oil before air-drying slowly across three days.
Every completed item is inspected under natural raking daylight and stamped with its individual batch sequence mark.
Limiting each production cycle to twenty pieces keeps our attention unbroken from first cut to final oil rub.
David Holt, Studio Founder