Molong Workshop
In 2020, for our 10th year Geoff and I ran 3 courses at his wonderful Molong workshop. During our 3rd course the 100th chair was created. The large workshop is fully outfitted with shave horses, pole lathes, work benches and all the tools chairmakers might need. The Molong courses …
Geoff Tonkin’s Tool Making Course
In 2020 Geoff continued and expanded his toolmaking courses at the new forge adjoining the Molong Workshop with Ian Percival (a man who knows all things steel). I had attended one of these courses myself in the previous year and would highly recommend it. I chose to make a hook …
Continuous Arm Windsor chair
I had recently appeared in a 3 page article in the Hunter Lifestyle Magazine so it came as quite a surprise when I got a phone call in late 2018 enquiring the cost of a continuous arm Windsor chair.
The client ordered 2 matching chairs as a wedding present for a grandchild.
I had fortunately come across a supply of European elm (Ulmus minor ‘Atinia’)