Thursday 29 September 2016

Furniture Design

A new book we've added to our woodworking Goodreads shelf is Furniture Design by James Christopher Postell and Jim Postell. Click the cover below to read reviews of this useful book.

With photographs and drawings, this guide to furniture design is 416 pages long and features the history of furniture design, studies of furniture design that includes designers and their techniques, details of materials, green design and more.

Furniture Design by James Christopher Postell and Jim Postell

Tuesday 27 September 2016

Gerrymet's Shop - Facebook

Facebook have recently added the new Shop feature on which we've added some of our tooling products. Take a look and see, via this cool new social media function, the positive hook circular wood saws, the jobber drills, the narrow bandsaw blades and other wood tooling we supply online.



Thursday 15 September 2016

Wednesday 14 September 2016

Jobber Drills - Buy Online Here

Carpentry Books - Goodreads

If you're interested in carpentry you might want to check out the books we've added to our shelves on Goodreads, which is a website were you can collect all the books you like and where we'll collect all the carpentry and DIY books we'd like to read. To view the new profile click - Carpentry Books


Tuesday 13 September 2016

Bespoke Profiling - Tooling Supplier

Scandinavian Chairs - Furniture Design

DIY - Make your own Shelves

Instead of queueing at IKEA for a flat-pack shelves, how about getting your out tools like a drill, a spirit level and a screwdriver, make your own shelves?

We've found a simple step-by-step guide in the link below which gives you instructions on how to set up your own floating shelves. The feature says "Pre-made floating shelves can be bought at many big box retailers but they aren’t always sturdy, made of solid wood or the size to fit your unique space." That is true and by making your own shelves you will create something for your home that is high-quality, long-lasting and made by you! It beats reading an IKEA instructions manual. Check the shelf-making instructions in the link below.


Thursday 8 September 2016

Famous Woodworkers/Designers

Here is a list of famous woodworkers or designers weve compiled, all who work with or make things with wood.
 
Alvar Aalto - 3 February 1898 to 11 May 1976 - a Finnish architect and designer, as well as a sculptor and painter who made this tea trolley.



Norm Abram - born October 3, 1949 - an American carpenter known for his work on the PBS television programs This Old House and The New Yankee Workshop.

John Boson - born around 1705 - a cabinet maker and carver who worked on St. George's Church, Bloomsbury in London.

Henning Engelsen - 5 February 1918 – 8 September 2005 - was a Norwegian woodcarver and illustrator, born in Sandefjord, Norway.

Wharton Esherick - July 15, 1887 – May 6, 1970 - a sculptor who worked in wood and is best known for his sculptural furniture and furnishings like this 'Music Stand' made from cherrywood in 1962.

'Music Stand' made from cherrywood in 1962.


Tage Frid - 30 May 1915 – 6 May 2004 - a Danish-born woodworker and author who influenced the development of the studio furniture movement in the United States.

Greta Hopkinson - 4 October 1901 - September 1993 - a British wood sculptor whose work appeared at the Southampton Art Gallery exhibition "Dead Wood Alive" in 1977.

James Krenov - October 31, 1920 – September 9, 2009 - a woodworker and studio furnituremaker who in 1976 published his first book, “A Cabinetmaker’s Notebook”.

A Krenov-style wooden smoothing plane.

Tuesday 6 September 2016

Buy Bandsaw Blades

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Make a Band Saw Box

The internet offers thousands of woodworking guides. Like below we've found two guides on how to make band saw boxes.

The first is Sculpted Band Saw Boxes: Design, Inspiration & Construction is a book by Lois Ventura. It gives you step-by-step instructions for new designs on how to make band saw boxes. And you can get a free preview of the book on Google below.



Or if reading is not your thing and you'd still like to make a band saw box, check out this step-by-step guide uploaded by Make Something on YouTube.


Monday 5 September 2016

Woodwork Project

Read about this woodworking project doing good things in the Silicon Valley community. It's run by Ward Bingham, an 81 year old retired pilot, who has set up a project for his fellow residents at an woodworking shop at a Santa Clara middle school.

Thursday 1 September 2016

Maverick Tooling - Reduced Prices

Check the new reduced prices on tooling from our quality Maverick range. Buy tooling such as auger bits, circular saw blades, jobber drills, router cutters and other products available online. And if you spend £50 or more online at Gerrymet, we'll deliver your tooling FREE OF CHARGE, meaning you could save a chunk of money. So if you're a carpenter, a joiner, or you have a woodworking project, save money on our quality Maverick tooling whose new reduced prices you can get here - Buy Tooling Online

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