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Our work

Recent work.

Photographs of our own jobs. No stock images, no renders, no other people's frames.

A green oak frame raised on its base, posts, braces and four trusses standing against blue sky with the house behind.
Frame raised, before claddingThe 30m² garden room frame, standing on its base.
A jowl post with two curved oak braces springing from it, seen against blue sky.
Jowl post and bracesThe post is left wider at the head to carry the beam and both braces.
Curved oak braces meeting a post head and tie beam against blue sky.
Braces cut from the solidEach curve is cut out of a single piece of oak, not laminated up.
Looking up at a green oak frame from beneath, braces and beams crossing against blue sky.
Looking up through the framePurlins, tie beams and braces, all pegged.
The inside of a finished oak framed building with exposed trusses and a smooth floor.
Exposed trusses, finishedThe frame stays visible inside — it is the ceiling.
A Gothic-arched oak window opening in a green oak frame, looking out to the garden.
Arched oak openingGothic-arched heads cut and fitted into the frame.
A carpenter on a step ladder fitting a beam into an oak frame during a raising.
Raising dayThe frame arrives cut, jointed and already dry-fitted once in the workshop.
A finished oak framed garden room clad in waney-edge oak with dark glazed doors.
Finished garden roomWaney-edge oak cladding, anthracite glazing, paved terrace.
An oak framed building clad in waney-edge oak boards seen from the garden.
Waney-edge claddingBoards run with the shape of the tree left on the edge.
Oak tenons with draw-bore peg holes laid out on trestles.
Draw-bored tenonsPeg holes offset so the joint pulls tight as it seasons.
Chisels, a steel square and a curved oak gate rail with bowtie keys, on a scribing floor.
Gate rail with bowtie keysButterfly keys let in across a shake, to stop it running as the oak dries.
An arched braced oak gate hung in a stone opening, seen straight on.
Arched oak side gateBraced from the bottom hinge corner, hung on black strap hinges.
An arched oak gate at an angle showing the strap hinge and diagonal brace.
IronmongeryStrap hinges and a latch chosen to outlast the timber.
A live-edge oak sign engraved for Nash Point, on trestles in the workshop.
Nash Point signLive-edge oak, engraved with lighthouse illustration and facility symbols.
A carved oak sign reading Vale Coast Carpentry with an ammonite, on trestles in the workshop.
Carved workshop signOur own board, engraved and hand-finished.
A live-edge oak sign engraved with lettering and an ammonite motif.
Live-edge letteringCut into a solid board with the waney edge left on.
An oak framed clad building in a garden with landscaping and sleeper edging.
Groundworks and edgingOak sleeper edging and levels worked in around the building.

Photography still to come: the workshop itself, a styled interior in use, and hands in shot. Half a day with a tripod

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