Richard Platt

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Richard started working with Lawrence in May 2018. Before that he studied music at the University of Manchester until he graduated in 2016. He had always been drawn to making things right from the beginning, spending most of his childhood playing with K'Nex, Lego, and Mechano - he got his first coping saw at the age of 4; a birthday present from his dad.

Since then, he decided music was the way forward choosing the Classical guitar as his instrument of choice. Whilst he undertook his studies, kept woodworking as a hobby; most notably earning a BTEC in fine furniture along side his degree and volunteering with Mike Abbott in 2015, where he discovered a love of greenwood working and started the path of chairmaking. In his spare time he enjoys making instruments, mostly guitars as well as bowl turning and as many other crafts as he can fit in with his remaining time!

 
 
 
Nice shot by @coopercarvings of me planing the joint up for the hilariously long table we just finished.
Back when Pepper fit in the mixing bowl. She no longer fits in the mixing bowl.
I really did enjoy getting the pizza oven up and running for just 15 minutes of actually cooking some naan breads. I find it's easy to feel like it's too much effort to light sometimes and have thought about getting an @oonihq to fill the gaps when I
📷 @coopercarvings
Finally got the bridge on this guitar. It's been a fairly long journey to get to this point. I won't go into the details of it all but it seems that even when you have all the lockdown time in the world you still need the creative energy available to
In her favouritest place - under the lathe on the shavings bed.
This chair has been a pleasure to work on. You can bid on it over on @qestcraft, have a look at the link in their bio. @themarchmontworkshop . . . #chairmaking #artisan #rushseat #furniture #finewoodwork #gilding #gold #howtospendit #madeinscotland
It's a nice place to be (when it's not foggier than a foggy thing) . . . #scotland #borders #landscape #sunrise