WoodcraftBiz
Restoration
I have restored many antique magic lantern projectors, clocks, barometers and other antique wood items/furniture over the years. I worked for several years for one of the UK's leading barometer restorers. I have also worked in the jewellery trade for many years and learned skills that compliment my work with antiques. I also have a passion for woodcarving.
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Antiques For Sale
I usually have some antique magic lanterns, barometers or jewelry boxes for sale like in the above pictures. Please go to my Etsy shop: https://woodcraftbiz.etsy.com
If there isn't, please contact me as I have a collection of many unrestored inlaid boxes and mahogany-cased magic lanterns and a few mercury Sheraton barometers that I can restore to order.
Bespoke Service
I will happily undertake restoration work and I can make bespoke projects to order: the thermometer on the left is one that a customer commissioned me to make - he saw the thermometer on an antiques site on the Internet but missed out on it and so he asked me to build a close reproduction one. The column ends are guilded. It's 36" tall.
Barometer Pediments
The above barometer pediments are reproduction ones I make to order. I make scroll or swan neck tops and complete pediments for 8" and 10" dial barometers and broken architectural pediments for Sheraton barometers to your required size. I also make replacement oak butlers mirror frames in all sizes. Please visit my Etsy shop to order:
or on my eBay shop: https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/woodcraftbiz
Hand Carved Barometer
The barometer in the two photographs on the right is one that I constructed from scratch; it's hand-carved from lime wood, faithfully reproducing flowers, berries, twisting foliage, architectural columns and scrolls. It consists of a portable mercury cistern tube calibrated from 28 inches to 31 inches with hand-engraved silvered-brass register plates signed “M. Jones, Birmingham”. These have a cog-driven adjustable vernier that moves throughout the range. The thermometer is calibrated in Fahrenheit and is encased in glass with the barometer register plates. The carving is backed by a mirror to elaborate its depth. In the black-and-white photograph, the mirror has been removed for photographic purposes and was replaced with white paper. The main carcase is pine and mahogany, veneered in burr-walnut, and is edge-lined in ebony; the carving has been colour-matched to the walnut. The overall length is 41 inches. It is finished in shellac French-polish and has an antique appearance. A bigger image of this is here: Woodcarving
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