Custom Work and Commissions
Most of what leaves this bench was somebody’s idea first. Bring the measurements, the tool, or just the problem.
A commission usually starts with a thing that does not have a good carrier yet. An odd-sized blade, a tool that keeps falling out of a pocket, a buckle worth building a belt around, a gift that has to be the right initials.
The process is not complicated. You describe it or send a photo, and if it is something this bench can do properly you get told what it will take. If it is not, you get told that instead, which saves everybody the trouble.
Prototypes get made and remade until the piece works. That is why some designs take a run of late nights before they are offered at all.
What helps when you get in touch
- A photograph of the thing the piece has to carry, hold or fit.
- Measurements if you have them, or the tool itself if you would rather it were fitted in person.
- How it is going to be used — a piece that lives on a work belt is built differently from one that lives in a drawer.
- Any deadline. Hand work takes the time it takes, and it is better to know up front whether that fits.
From the bench
Prototypes, patterns and the parts of the job nobody photographs.
Talk to the person who makes it
No sales desk and no order form to fight with. Call or text the workshop and you are speaking to the bench.