

Ashley Iles Ltd is a family run hand tool maker that manufactures its tools in Lincolnshire, UK.
Classic Hand Tools sell the Ashley Iles range of bench chisels and pole lathe turning tools.
The Ashley Iles story began in the autumn of 1949 when a pattern maker named Ashley Iles gave up his day job and set out on his own to make and sell tools.
Ashley began by renting a small workshop in Sheffield for 5 shillings a week, that'll be 5 bob bor! (or 25 pence in decimalised equivalence and about £9 a week in 2020!). He ended up with a factory making carving and woodturning tools with a brand that is known worldwide.
Today the company is run by two of Ashley's sons, Tony and Barry in a rural location in Lincolnshire which is in the East of England.


