Illtyd Perkins Woodworking

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• Bookbinding Tools
  • STANDING PRESS
    • Standing Press Details
      • Books in Press
      • Thread & Capstan
      • Top beam
      • Inlaid Centring Lines
      • Drawer sides and detail
      • Centering Lines
      • Base with floor-bolt caps
      • Yew Panels
  • Lying Press
    • Press and plough on stand
    • Plough
    • Press & plough
    • Inverted press
    • Cutting with the plough
    • Cutting with the plough
    • Detail
    • Beech Lying Press & Tub
      • Beech Lying Press
      • Beech Plough and Press
      • Press Plough & Tub
      • Plough Detail
      • Plough Blade
      • Handle
      • Thread
  • Finishing Presses
    • Finishing Press with Pins
    • Detail
    • Detail
    • Finishing Press
    • Finishing Press
    • Compact Beech Finishing Press
    • Compact Beech Press II
    • Finishing Press, German Pattern
    • Finishing Press, German Pattern
    • Mini Finishing Press
    • Mahogany Press with Pins.
    • Detail of pins
  • Sewing Frame
    • Sewing Frame
    • Nut and Screw
    • Sewing frame
  • Pressing & Backing Boards
    • Pressing Boards
    • Brass-bound pressing boards
    • Backing-boards
    • Lipped Backing Boards
    • Gilding Boards
  • Miscellaneous Tools
  • PRICES
• Furniture & Joinery
  • Chairs
    • Ladderback and Rush-seated chairs
      • High backed
      • Set of four
      • Rocker
      • Low back
      • Provence
      • Set
      • Restoration
      • A later version
    • Windsor Chairs
      • Cherry bowback
      • Set
      • Plain bowback
      • Set of cherry
      • Mendlesham
      • Queen Anne
      • Sturdy oak
      • Maple Windsor
      • Stool
      • Walnut dining chair
      • Back view
      • Seat
      • Arm
      • Six chairs
      • Single chair
      • Cherry low-backs
      • Cherry low-back detail
      • My chair
    • Other Chairs
      • X chair
      • Leather seats
      • Detail
      • Experiment
      • Copper & leather
      • Copper & leather
      • Oak bench
  • Tables
    • Oak extender
    • Plus chairs
    • Cherry trestle
    • Cherry trestle
    • With chairs
    • Drum table
    • Extended drum
    • Asymmetric table
    • Asymmetric table
    • Oak games table
    • Games table open
    • Tiled top
    • Tiled top
    • Round walnut table
    • Detail
    • Maple table
    • Workshop
    • Nesting tables
    • Sofa table
    • Ash table
    • Legs
    • Fir table and bench
    • Mahogany trestle
    • Mahogany trestle
    • Media Placeholder
  • Desks
    • Stand-up
    • Drawer
    • Lid
    • Stand-up
    • Top and drawer
    • Oak desk
    • Top
    • Drawers
    • Open
    • Pull-out
    • Writing desk
    • Cherry and maple
  • Joinery
    • Juniper & glass
    • Pivot door
    • Latch detail
    • Workshop
    • Wine cellar door
    • Latch
    • Door
    • Gluing-up
    • Double Door
      • Preparing for delivery
      • Media Placeholder
      • Media Placeholder
    • Newel
    • Barn door
  • Chests
    • Sea Chest
    • Becket
    • Walnut chest
    • Open
    • Mahogany
    • Walnut
    • Alison's chest
    • Name
    • Rosewood & silver
    • Tray
    • Dovetailed oak
  • Music Stands
    • Rosewood
    • Birds Eye
    • Cherry
    • 2x6 stand
  • Miscellaneous
    • The Globe
      • Laminations
      • Shaping
      • Scraping
      • Drawing
      • Painting
      • Completed globe
    • The Clock
      • Face
      • Face and hood
      • Photo
    • The Gates
      • The completed East Gate
      • The North Gate
      • Copper Inlay
      • Patterns
      • Polishing
      • Hardware
      • Detail
      • Glass
      • North Gate
      • East Gate
    • Doghouses
    • Chinese temple dog-house
    • Dogwarts
    • Small Dog
  • Chair seat rushing
• Beeswax Polish
• Woodworking Classes
• Contact Me
• Journal
  • Back to Sidney.
  • Oak or oak?
  • Bicycles and Wood?
  • The Joy of Betta Sex
  • Return to Bass
  • The Standing Press Comes Home
  • Progress Report
  • Shaw on Music (and design).
  • Cool? Uncool?
  • "Tea break's over - everybody stand on their heads again.........."
  • Done.
  • Early start - again.
  • Screw Threading
  • Bending Bass Ribs
  • New Project (and an old friend)
  • Bed, table, and I'm up-to-date.
  • Making the Bed II (No diversions)
  • Making the Bed
  • Back
  • Humpty Dumpty Goes Back Together
  • A Tale of Two Chairs, Part 1.
  • Catching Up (Part 3)
  • Catching Up (Part 2)
  • Catching Up
  • Of Paper Hats (and other things)
  • .....and is reassembled
  • In Which an Octagonal Table Undergoes a Makeover
  • Autumnal Thoughts
  • Lessons Learned (Part II)
  • Lessons Learned?
  • Many a Slip
  • Preparations
  • Of Tables, Teak and Concrete.
  • Unfinished Business
  • Slaves' Work, or Patience and Sandpaper.
  • Weighty matters
  • Today
  • Commonplaces
  • Writer's block
  • Back
  • Completions
  • The Craft of the Repairer
  • Working through a cold
  • "When you're lying awake......"
  • A New Week
  • Transition
  • Slightly distracted but a usable day
  • Weekend Woodworker
  • Current projects
  • Sharpening
  • Resolves Revisited
  • New Year's Resolutions
  • Trailer
  • Too Busy to Write
  • Duck in a Tree
  • A New Tool
  • Finishing the drawers
  • Cleaning Up
  • A Brief Meditation on Mess
  • Dovetailing
  • A Day in the Blacking Factory
  • Where did the week go?
  • Rainy Monday
  • Friday
  • Hall table end
  • Hall table
  • Slow start
  • New Week
  • Fudges
  • The Nose Is Back to the Grindstone
  • Business Decisions
  • Back from Vancouver
  • Last Minute (as usual)
  • Not a typical day
  • Late night
  • Sunday at home
  • First post
• Untitled
• Stephen Tennant (photo from Wikipedia)
• Site Map
• Photo
• Photo
• Download
• Table sketch1
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