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01/11/2025

Thank you for joining LIWF 2025 — plus early access for 2026 -

Hello again  Thank you for being part of London International Woodworking Festival 2025. Your support helps celebrate the craft of woodworking and funds training and apprenticeships for the next generation of makers. We’d love to hear your thoughts on this year’s festival: what y...

04/11/2024

The London International Woodworking Festival is back in its box until next year - yes we’ll be back in 2025

This is an opportunity to say thank you to everyone that passed through the door in the last seven days - students, instructors, vendors, crew and visitors - to make the event a success

Keep us in your Follow list for updates and other news or drop by the website and add your name to our subscriber list but most importantly spread the word

For now though, here are some of your highlights

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01/11/2024

Table for 20 please

26/10/2024

Just seven days to go before we open the doors to London IWF. The current list of exhibitors has gone live on the website and includes scheduled book signings on Friday and Saturday with Chris Schwarz from

Chris is also scheduled to deliver a talk on Saturday at 11.30am on the topic of his latest book American Peasant.

Also making the trip from the Lost art press HQ in Covington is Megan Fitzpatrick. Megan is scheduled to deliver a talk on Saturday at 1.00pm on Shaker Furniture

Use the link in the bio to buy your tickets and avoid the queues at the door.

29/09/2024

Wristbands, every festival needs a wristband, right? Book your tickets online at londoniwf.co.uk or follow the link and collect yours at the door

12/09/2024

Pic 1. A few days ago a 10kg package of carefully selected premium quality bog oak left my workshop in Newhaven East Sussex for a machine shop somewhere in Ohio

It’s not the first time this has happened - see pic 2. The first samples

I’m privileged to be in a position to make beautiful functional objects now and then. It’s not than unusual, lots of people get to do it.

I’m also fortunate to be in a position to pick the projects I want to work on. Again, not unusual, lots of people get to do it.

This project however is something I just couldn’t keep to myself.

These boards have a fascinating story - 5000 years in the ground a couple of metres below sea level, excavated, buried again and re-excavated (not a real word) cut, dried and then set aside for something special.

Pic 3 & 4.The next time you see these boards they will have been converted into saw handles on new Bad Axe Joiners Saws.

There’s enough material here to make 12 handles but you can’t buy one of these saws. Book a place on the Saw Sharpening Seminar with Mark Harrell during in October and this is what you can build.

Provenance is everything and part of the deal in securing this material was to agree to keeping a record of everything that gets made from it.

If you want to be part of the story use the link in the bio to find out more about the course and secure a place in history.

28 Oct – 1 Nov.

Cherry handled are still an option.

08/08/2024

And the list keeps growing…

London International Woodworking Festival

Saturday 2nd November 10.00 - 17.00 - £10.50
Friday 1st November preview session - 14.00 - 17.00 - £5.50

The link in the bio will take you straight to the ticket office

Saturday you’ll gain access to the main bazaar - a gathering of the most entertaining and influential practitioners of the craft from around the globe all under the same roof. You’ll have the opportunity to meet and greet and rub shoulders with like-minded folk from a variety of woodworking disciplines and specialisms.

You’ll be able to get hands on with the tools on display from leading brands such as Lie Nielsen, Veritas, Bad Axe, Aurio and Lamello as well as a range of supremely talented smaller scale artisans - see the list below.

And if all that isn’t a good enough reason to join us we’ll also have a variety of breakout masterclasses, lectures and demonstrations to choose from which are all free to attend.

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