After years of carving and collecting wood from skips, friends, customers, derelict buildings, old furniture, carpenter's and woodyards offcuts.... we've decided not to buy new timber again, apart from some locally sourced wood whose origin we know (for chopping boards). So much wood is thrown away every day that we feel it's a crime not to use it.

The different types of British wood that we use, depending on availability, are: birch, yew, rowan, ash , beech, hawthorn, elm, sycamore, larch, plane, willow, apple, pear, plum, holly, lime, oak, maple, sweet chestnut, walnut, hazel, blackthorn.....

We often work as well with green wood obtained from friend's land, farmers, and the forest floor.

As we spend several months a year in Spain, we are fortunate to obtain more unusual, non commercial, woods such as strawberry tree, broom, almond, carob, olive, box, sabina, tree heather, red juniper, holm oak, all in their local areas.