Below are all the registered professional turners who offer a demonstration service, ordered by the most recently updated member first. Click their photo or their name to view the complete details, or use the ‘Show Bio’ or ‘Show Map’ links for a quick view.
Fraser Burchill
Biography
Following my Fine Arts Degree, I worked at the National Theatre in the Prop Making Department for 27 years and was the main woodturner. This meant I combined my Fine Arts skills with all manor of crafts and problem solving; for example making a 7 metre table with 9” square section turned legs for Richard 3rd, which had to survive being violently thrown over by Sir Ian McKellen every night in order to form a defensive battlement! I made an exceptional barber’s chair for the production of Sweeney Todd for which I had to make a welded metal frame clad with a very complicated series of split turnings to disguise the mechanism.
Following my Theatre career I now do individual commissions from small runs of production work such as furniture legs and decorations etc. I am also a Potter and turn items in wood to compliment this work, such as wooden lids for the caddies I make.
Please feel free to contact me via my email address, commissions are welcome.
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Facilities
- Off Street Parking
19 Tey Road Coggeshall Colchester CO6 1SY England