Oldfern Woodturning

About Oldfern - two woodturners

Dan Fearnley, Woodturner

Dan Fearnley has been woodturning for some years now, since 2018. He works from his workshop at home in Pickering, North Yorkshire. He provides tuition for members of Ryedale Woodturners at their training events, as well as demonstrating at club events. Woodturning is his full-time job.

Dan now produces most of the oldfern orders requested.

Steve Fearnley

Dan's father, Steve, started turning in 2008, and has a workshop in nearby Thornton le Dale. He is secretary and treasurer for Ryedale Woodturners.

Nowadays, Steve mainly makes items for local woodturning sales. He enjoys working with unusual wood - burrs, spalted stock, roots, partially decayed wood, and enjoys artistic pyrography. He still occasionally tackles orders to help Dan out.


What we do

Handmade wooden trees

Together we produce a variety of bespoke handmade wooden items ranging from household goods and ornaments to trophies, restoration work, clocks and artistic pieces.
We aim for quality rather than quantity, though we are happy to take on batch work and repeat orders.
On the website size, guide prices and further details can be found by hovering over a picture, or clicking on it if viewing on a phone.
Ordering is by email request, given that we mainly produce bespoke items to order. We do have some standard items in stock, such as those on the Shop page. We will provide a quote and time scale by return email. We enjoy working with customers, usually via email, to realise a design idea.

Oldfern websites

Handmade wooden tazza

This website concentrates on sales requests for standard items, and enquiries about more bespoke turning possibilities.

There are 2 other oldfern websites that complement this one:

archive.oldfern.co.uk
holds an archive of almost all the turning we have done (since 2012).

trees.oldfern.co.uk
a pictorial database of over 800 species of trees, with over 2000 photos.

And we have a Facebook page at OldfernStudios