About our Shop

OUR PHILOSOPHY - SIMPLY THE BEST

After many years running a professional furniture workshop, writing and teaching, John Lloyd has decided to add a Tool Shop to his range of services.

The whole concept for the John Lloyd Tool Shop is very simple, we stock selected tools from around the world that we consider to be the best! If we stock it, we would use it ourselves, and if you need advice on what to buy, whether you are a complete beginner or a professional, we will be able to give it to you!

As with many things in life, it is a good philosophy to buy the best that you are able to afford, this is particularly true of woodworking tools. The best tools will be a joy to use, will enable you to do the best work, and will last a lifetime.

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

Over the years we have had the opportunity to test and use many different tools in our workshops, the tools that you find in our shop are therefore not just every make and model that we can think of, or the ones that give us a good profit margin, they are quite simply the tools that we consider to be the best, or the best quality in their price range. These are the tools that we would use in our workshops and would not hesitate to recommend to anyone attending our courses, or any woodworkers, including professional furniture makers.

BEGINNERS

If you are a complete beginner and have no idea what to buy to get started, we can advise you. We were beginners once, we train many beginners every year, and we know what you need and what you should avoid. If you have enrolled for one of our courses, you will be able to try many of the tools that we have for sale, during the course, which avoids the unnecessary expense of buying tools that may prove to be inappropriate.

EXPERIENCED WOODWORKERS

If you are an experienced woodworker and would like the opinion of a professional furniture maker, on the uses or benefits of a particular tool, or which tool would be appropriate for a particular job, we can give that advice, because we use the tools to make furniture ourselves.

TEST TOOLS

Finally, if you don’t live too far away from us and would like to have a play before making your purchase, you are invited to make an appointment to visit our workshops and make some shavings with some of our test tools.

We look forward to hearing from you!

JOHN LLOYD