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Engineered bespoke cabinetry , making furniture for any room_engineered to last

14/05/2026

Safety
This could have been a lot worse !
If you’ve ever questioned whether the saw stop technology works on the TKS80 ….we can confirm it does !!
Fingers saved 💅

07/05/2026

Schools closed …means visitors to the factory

31/07/2025

Another batch of mitre fold oak legs
Using the F900M and the 45 degree mitre lock tooling also from felder ,absolutely love doing the posts this way as it gives us 4 face sides and allows us use 20mm pieces to make up the sections
Timber supplied :
Tooling :
Finish :

11/07/2025

6 months of spray room action
ORIGINS
FROM PAINT TO PRECIOUS GEM
Fordite, also known as Motor Agate, is a unique automotive enamel material with an interesting history. The original layered automotive paint slag “rough” was made incidentally, years ago, by the now extinct practice of hand spray-painting multiples of production cars in big automotive factories.
The oversprayed paint in the painting bays gradually built up on the tracks and skids that the car frames were painted on. Over time, many colorful layers built up there. These layers were hardened repeatedly in the ovens that the car bodies went into to cure the paint. Some of these deeper layers were even baked 100 times.
Eventually, the paint build-up would become obstructing, or too thick and heavy, and had to be removed. As the story goes, some crafty workers with an eye for beauty realized that this unique byproduct was worth salvaging. It was super-cured, patterned like psychedelic agate, and could be cut and polished with relative ease!
Wow! “RECYCLE IT!” seemed to be the resounding sentiment. And so it was…
As word got around about this remarkable material, it’s been said that rock hounds started showing up at auto factories, offering to help remove that problematic paint!
Sadly, the techniques that produced this great rough years ago, are no longer in practice. Cars are now painted by way of an electrostatic process that essentially magnetizes the enamels to the car bodies. This leaves little, or no overspray. The old factory methods that created this incredible material are long gone.

28/05/2025

Father and son
Great day to see one of the younger members enjoying his time in the workshop ,and very privileged to be able to share some time together and pass on the satisfaction that working in this industry brings

19/10/2022

We do love when we get visitors in the workshop….even more so when they’re prepared to do some sanding 👌🏻

14/10/2022

It was great to meet Luca this week !!!
A fantastic addition to Aarons (our chief furniture finishing expert) family !!
Another reason why we do what we do !!
A welcome added responsibility to make sure this little man is well provided for and our .thefactory_ family is able to provide a future for all their families
Congratulations and well done to Aaron and Charlotte and welcome to the world Luca 👊🏻💙

06/09/2022

A little collection of snapshots of work going through the workshop.
It’s a stressful job making furniture ,meeting deadlines at the same time trying to achieve perfection,thankfully we have a brilliant team..they’re the guys who make it all possible ….see you in the morning guys ⏰🥱👊🏻💙

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26/08/2022

A week of production
We love looking back at the end of a week to see what everyone’s efforts have achieved , the team have done it again and we hope they all enjoy their well earned rest , everyone enjoy theirs and let’s go again …Tuesday 🫡

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10/02/2022

What a piece of kit 😍
FAT300

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