Living Longbows

02/12/2025

21/09/2025

This time next week the first day of fighting at the 2025 Claregalway Castle Shield will be done! We are starting to get real excited about it and hope you will too.
The tournament will see over 80 fighters from all across Ireland, and around the world engaged in full contact medieval combat, with the majority of our one on one fights taking place on Saturday, with group fights on Sunday.
We would love to have a crowd there to cheer us on, which is why, for the first time, this amazing spectacle will be FREE TO THE PUBLIC.
We hope to see you there from 10 each day on the 27th and 28th of September

26/08/2025

Turning some nice fresh cherry into bowls at Bandon Walled Towns Festival 2025!

17/05/2025

Beam Bench creation.

07/12/2024

04/10/2024

Just arrived and setting up!

27/08/2024

Steps and stages of historical poll lathe bowl turning. This was a piece of apple wood, generously donated to me by , thanks! More to follow!

06/07/2024

Here is an update on some of the bowls I've been turning on three different traditional pole lathe set ups.

18/04/2024

New bowls this season... including: cherry, sycamore, apple and horn-beam. They each have their distinct aroma when turned fresh on the pole lathe!

21/02/2024

Thanks to for the opportunity to mill this magnificent scalded burry beech stem! It's 14' long and approximately 40" wide. Big tables....

Milled with my 84" MK IV, 84" GB bar and .404 hyper-skip ripping chain from .ie and my .

12/02/2024

Cutting rings for future tables by

Today I used my 84" MK IV alaskan mill frame. It looks like overkill on these logs, but they are over 1.4 metres wide (thick) so it was nessary.