TomDysonwoodworking

16/09/2026

I am a maker.

26/08/2026

I make things and people like them. These are my Etsy reviews in August. I am very proud of how my work is received.

Thank you for ordering from me,
Tom.

20/08/2026

12/08/2026

14/06/2026

Yew is my favourite wood to make buttons from. With a careful touch you can complete the whole button at 4000rpm (which is not always the case!) and the buttons and shavings fly off of the work. But its also fickle, if you linger or offer up a tool that isn't freshly sharpened and it will chatter or burn rapidly.

More so than any other button Yew feels like the wood you can capture the most of the trees story, the variations of spaces between those rings are literally history. Years where the tree grew faster or slower.

All the wood I use is sourced with care. But this Yew is one of the few woods I have collected directly from a local tree surgeon. This tree had to come down from a private garden and this work saved it from becoming chip or firewood.

I'm a maker not a writer, these are my unedited words.
Tom.

01/06/2026

Pune your followers.