Career summary & other interests

 Woodworking
1990 - dateFollow links from Homepage.
1983 - 90Furniture making and teaching apprentices at
the Edward Barnsley Furniture Workshop.
1976 - 83Making joinery, furniture, wood turnery and metalwork at Oxford.
Relevant previous experience: Enthusiastic beachcomber since the age of three. Marine engineer and later, commissioned officer in the Royal Corps of Transport. Student of three-dimensional design.
Related activities
Since 1990 - Developing the on-line manual: The Modern Cabinetmaker, available for download from this site. March 2006 - Visit to the Mytchett Centre to give a talk to the Southern Fellowship of Woodworkers on tool sharpening and my work in general. July 2002 - Open day at Home Farm Workshop for the Berkshire, Hampshire & Surrey Fellowship of Woodworkers, to discuss tools, equipment and computer-aided drafting. Teaching wood turnery at West Dean College in West Sussex. Adjudicating at the National Woodworker Exhibition. Writing articles for Woodworker and Fine Woodworking magazines.

Other interests

Science and technology, art and design.

C++ programming. I have been using computers and studying computer technology since 1983 and have been a keen amateur C++ programmer since 1997, also taking an interest in C++/CLI (for programs that target Microsoft's .NET platform). I am a member of the Association of C and C++ Users. My published book reviews are: Francis Glassborow (2006), You Can Program in C++; a comparative review of Gordon Hogenson (2006), C++/CLI: The Visual C++ Language for .NET, and Stephen R.G. Frazer (2006), Pro Visual C++/CLI and the .NET 2.0 Platform; Bjarne Stroustrup (2008) Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ (see Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com).

Baking bread and cakes, see on this site: The Bread Pages.

Forestry /woodland management.

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