Steve - Founder and a deep fount of knowledge when it come to wood

Maddie - Efficient and effective. Always on the ball

Phil - Mr ‘make it happen’. Always looking forward

Pip - Strong as an ox and quick as a flash

Dan - A new generation gentleman, great with a camera

Ben - Loves nature and wild life. Also a cuts a mean bowl blank

Woody the dog - Loyal, and really good at sniffing out problems

Steve and Phil come from a family of makers and they have both always loved wood and trees. In 2010 Steve was pursuing his love of woodwork whilst farming on Exmoor. His location gave him access to a wide range of English wood species and over time he realised that this normality was far from the case for many woodworkers.

Woodworking produces lots of off cuts and Steve was increasingly reluctant to allow them to end up on the wood burner.  In an attempt to stop them going waste, and in the spirit of 'nothing ventured, nothing gained' he listed a few choice pieces on eBay.

It was obvious from the word ‘go’ that there was a real demand for small quantities of interesting wood blanks and Steve became one of the very first on eBay to sell woodturning blanks. From wrapping parcels on the farm house kitchen table, then converting one of the lambing barns to a makeshift packing room he eventually graduated to a large barn on a friends farm. Timber and trees were bought from local landowners and fellow woodworking friends who had surplus stocks, relationships with suppliers began to grow.

There is only so much you can do on your own though. Cue Phil. Cut from the same cloth Phil has been a professional craftsman almost of all his working life and like Steve understands how important it is to have easy access to the right materials at good prices. With experience in marketing and a taste for the internet, a new partnership was formed which opened up a wide range of possibilities.

A new partnership, a new name and a new mission;

'To make it easy for you to get hold of the wood you need for your project wherever you are in the world'.

Its taken a lot of hard work but since then we’ve grown from a team of 2 to a team of 6 (including Woody the dog), moved to a 1500 square foot building, bought new machines and handling equipment and have a global customer base from New Zealand to Alaska. Our suppliers of sustainably sourced timber include The National Trust, Forest England and some of the finest private estates in England - oh, and a good number of our rural neighbours.

Now, we have a community of thousands of loyal creative makers who regularly take advantage of the service we offer.