Joinery by Tim Findlay

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This is the first toy I made having decided I'd done enough DIY! I later gave it to a local nursery school.

The inspiration for this digger design came from a wooden toy website.

Followng the digger theme a forklift seemed to be a useful addition to the toybox.

The construction set was completed by this tipper truck.

This lorry and Landrover set came from a desing by Richard BLizzerd. Made from Beech.

After the constuction toys I moved on to rocking horses - starting with this striking laminated one designed by Judy Fergusson. Made from Birch ply and carved largely with a Powerfile this was a dusty and noisy introduction to carving but the result was satisfying.

Gypsy is carved from a design by Anthony Dew. I went on a three day carving course with Anthony at his workshop in Fangfoss near York where the head was carved. The rest took a lot longer! In all about 200 hours work went into this one.

I then tried my had at a series of dolls house sized (1/12th scale) horses. Yogi here is on a swinger stand and has cast silver stirrups and swinger brackets.

Having run out of stirrups the next few dolls house sized ones I made became unicorns.

Romany was made using a timber kit from The Rocking Horse Shop. The accessories for all of the horses I have made with the exception of the unicorns, came from here.

Harley is a half size horse. He was made from reclaimed Oak and has found a home in the Bristol area.

This is a half sized carousel horse - again the design is by Anthony Dew. This horse has all of the tack, mane and details carved into the wood. Painted for me by my Mother.

Scarlett is probably my favourite of the 22 horses I have made so far. She is made from my Dad's old stock of boat repair timber - a mixture of Teak and Mahogany. The strawberry blonde mane and tail set her off a treat.

The writing slope design came from an old woodworking magazine. It is essentially a router project which required me to make a router table to be able to make the slope.

The basic design for this cabinet came from something my wife found in a shop. I drw up my own version and had my first go at making cabriole legs. Made from Walnut stained Oak.

My own designs started to get a fair bit more complicated with this shoe cabinet made from solid Walnut. Another first - this time making fielded panels. The cabinet is finished with french polish - lots of coats.

My neighbour commssioned this piece and provided a picture from a magazine to create the design from.

I began to get interested in marquetry and tried out a few test pieces to see how difficult it would be - these are the first three.

Having found I could produce reasonable looking marquetry I made these boxes as presents for various relatives and friends.

Perhaps the most striking of the marquetry boxes are the ones where I used Purpleheart as the base wood. The piece of Purpleheart I used to cut the veneers was fished out of the Thames years ago by my parents.

My daughter asked me to make her a dressing table set and provided an outline design to illustrate what she wanted. I developed this into something I could make and this is the result. Making the 'den of snakes' stool was the most challenging part.

This homework project for my son was to create a model of a cell - we got a bit carried away and made three! The school has kept it for future demonstrations.

These marquetry panels are to be the top, sides and front of a Sycamore jewellery cabinet I am making. This is perhaps the most labour intensive project I have ever attempted. I have not kept a count of the time it has taken but it must be well over 200 hours already. The marquetry pictures took a long time!

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