Hand Tool Event

  The Sussex Barn, West Dean College, Near Chichester, Sussex, UK  PO18 0RX

Saturday 6th June 10am – 6pm & Sunday 7th June 10am – 5pm

* FREE Entry & Parking * On Site Café & Refreshments *

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Masterclasses

Saturday

11.30am - Deneb Pulchalski -  Use of Lie Nielsen Scraper planes

 3.00pm - John Lloyd - Inlaying

Sunday

11.30am - Deneb Pulchalski - Use of Lie Nielsen Low Angle planes

 3.00pm - John Lloyd - Inlaying

Deneb Pulchalski

Deneb has been working with wood for over 25 years as a carpenter, boat builder and furniture maker. He received formal training in furniture making and design at the Centre for Furniture Craftsmanship in Rockport, Maine, first as a student then as an assistant instructor, and finally as an artist in residence. Years of teaching and demonstrating have presented an opportunity to hone and polish hand skills and the ability to share these skills with others

John Lloyd

John was awarded the City & Guilds of London Institute First Prize for Advanced Studies in Furniture for Furniture Making and Antique Restoration. He is a full member of the British Antique Furniture Restorers’ Association and commissions include work from Sotheby’s, Christies and St Paul’s Cathedral. He also writes monthly articles in Furniture and Cabinet Making magazine.

Mark Bennett

Mark combines traditional woodworking techniques with contemporary craftsmanship, producing handmade bespoke wooden furniture and interiors. He has an extensive knowledge of wood and specialises in unusually figured boards and non-commercial timbers from local sources. Mark studied Architecture and Interior Design at the Royal College of Art, receiving an MA in 1999.

James Mursell

James is a full-time Windsor Chair Maker, who divides his time between making chairs to commission, teaching chair making and writing for woodworking magazines; Good Woodworking and Furniture and Cabinet Making. James also makes and sells a range of spokeshaves and travishers which he designed for use specifically in chair making.  

Philip Edwards

Philip Edwards is the craftsman behind Philly Planes who are reviving the lost art of wooden plane making in the U.K. From his Dorset workshop he makes each individual plane by hand. His work has been published in various wood working magazines.

Robert Ingham

Robert teaches at West Dean College as well as having his own business, Robert Ingham Designs.  He makes one-off pieces to commission and for exhibition both in this country and abroad.

Michel Auriou

Rasp and woodcarving manufacturer. Michel's hand stitched rasps and rifflers are the worlds best.

Bill Carter

Bill served his apprenticeship as a Carpenter & Joiner. He began making planes in the 1970's, these were always made out of timber. In 1983 he made his first metal plane and in 1987, began making planes full time.  Bill makes all his planes by hand using only hand tools. His speciality are miniature mitre planes, using the brass backs of disguarded tenon saws.  Bill is self taught and has never had any metal work tuition, It's all been learnt by trial and error.

Karl Holtey

This is Karl Holtey's first show appearance for over 20 years.  Come and see his fantastic planes, we know you will be fascinated.

Mick Hudson

Sheffield plane maker Clifton Tools will be represented by their Technical Sales Manager Mick Hudson who will be demonstrating the range of Clifton woodworking products.

David Barron

David is a furniture maker with a long standing interest in making hand tools. He started selling a range of wooden planes, hammers, knives and dovetails guides about a year ago at Yandles. These are the tools he uses in his cabinet making rather than just for the mantle piece and they have proved very popular. Demonstrations of dovetailing and hand planing will go on throughout the show and visitors will be encouraged to have a go themselves.

David Stanley of David Stanley Auctions

Founded in 1980, David Stanley Auctions are recognised world wide as the principal auctioneers of Antique Woodworking Tools.
Twenty years of specialist auctioneering has provided David Stanley Auctions with an in-depth knowledge of the tools and related items they sell. This enables them to offer advice to both buyer and seller on all aspects of tools and tool collecting.
Since 1980 David Stanley Auctions have sold more over 250,000 lots of tools by auction, way ahead of any other tool auction house in the world. They are purely auctioneers, not dealers, avoiding the danger of a conflict of interest.
Their firm is noted for its professional and friendly approach, coupled with reliability and honesty.  They guarantee complete confidentiality to all customers.
Whether you wish to buy or sell top price lots or more mundane items, the firm is uniquely positioned to advise you.
90% of all the important English and European tool collections worldwide that are offered for sale, are sold through David Stanley Auctions.
So please bring along any of your valued antique or collectible tools and get a full appraisal from the experts.

www.davidstanley.com - Tel  01530 222320

Steve Woodley

is a Forester, Arborist and green woodworker based in Essex. Whilst running his own forestry training business his is also extremely committed to keeping old timber skills alive. Working almost exclusively with Gransfor Bruks axes supplied by Classic Hand Tools Steve is the Hand Crafted Timber Company specialising in timber conversion using medieval techniques. Keen to educate the public about this all but lost art form Steve can be seen regularly giving public displays of timber hewing throughout the southeast of England.
A recent project was a collaborative venture with Traditional oak carpentry and Westover woodlands in the construction of a fifth century Anglo Saxon farm house at West Stow Anglo Saxon Village. A stunning earth fast building using hand split and hewn oak employing traditional peg construction throughout. Working with tool designs dating from the seventh century Steve manages to capture a beauty in his finished work that the modern saw mill fails to reproduce.