Michael Forster: working wood with love and hand tools

If you’ve come here from my other site, you’ll know that woodworking isn’t my profession - although I did do a VERY rudimentary ‘professional’  carpentry and joinery course in the 1960s. My real love, though, is furniture-making, and I’ve generally focused it on small-scale work because I don’t have the workshop space to build, or the house-room to keep, large furniture. In fact, most of my stuff gets given away as presents which is fine because I get the fun of making it and other people get the clutter.

The only professional element in my woodworking is that I write about it for magazines - and over the years that income has helped me to accumulate a set of very fine hand-tools, plus the essential machinery for doing the donkey work. Generally, that’s timber preparation which, although perfectly possible with hand-tools is not particularly enjoyable and takes up a lot of time that could be given to the more creative stuff.

If you want to see more of what I do, then click the links at the top of the page. Happy surfing!