Carved by Tom

Carved by Tom Custom made carved signs, peg rails, coat racks and other hand made wooden products made in my workshop in Harbertonford, England

Hand carved house sign, Oxfordshire-bound.
30/04/2026

Hand carved house sign, Oxfordshire-bound.

Great to have some photos from a project I supplied a load of peg rails for last year for refurbished rooms at the 📸: ...
17/02/2026

Great to have some photos from a project I supplied a load of peg rails for last year for refurbished rooms at the

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Sixteen hand carved signs off to the departure lounge, destined for Windermere Island, Bahamas 🇧🇸 It’s been a monumental...
22/10/2025

Sixteen hand carved signs off to the departure lounge, destined for Windermere Island, Bahamas 🇧🇸

It’s been a monumental amount of work, but when you get a chance to carve sapele, it’s also very rewarding.

If my maths is correct, 2025 marks twenty years since my first carvings.I’d lost my late Dad’s workshop in a fire and re...
15/10/2025

If my maths is correct, 2025 marks twenty years since my first carvings.

I’d lost my late Dad’s workshop in a fire and rebuilt it from the charred foundations upwards.

I spent many days sifting through the stinking, horrible remains of his old workshop, looking for anything that could be reused, from boxes of old screws to hammer heads and any timber that hadn’t burnt.

During this exhaustive and often sad process, I finally came across a small, blackened chest of drawers. In one of the drawers, miraculously unscathed, lay my Dad’s carving chisels.

To mark the resurrection of the workshop I carved ‘2005’ for one gable end and ‘Resurgam’ for the other.

When Sir Christopher Wren re-designed St Paul’s Cathedral after a slightly more famous fire in 1666, he sent a labourer off to find him a lump of stone to use as centre point to set out the dome perimeter. Legend has it, that the stone he hurriedly found in the ruins had the word ‘Resurgam’ carved into it, a Latin word meaning ‘I shall rise again’ which adorns St Paul’s to this day.

So, although I wasn’t topping out St Paul’s Cathedral, it seemed a fitting word to try my hand at carving, using my Dad’s tools.

Looking at the amateurish, slightly furred characters now, I never imagined twenty years ago I’d be making a living from carving today, but from something bad came something cathartic - and good.

Gulp… time to get cracking on this set of signs destined for Windermere Island, Bahamas 🇧🇸
22/09/2025

Gulp… time to get cracking on this set of signs destined for Windermere Island, Bahamas 🇧🇸

Hand carved house sign with chamfered edges off to Cambridgeshire.
09/09/2025

Hand carved house sign with chamfered edges off to Cambridgeshire.

Hand carved oak house sign, Staffordshire bound.
08/08/2025

Hand carved oak house sign, Staffordshire bound.

Cornwall bound, hand carved oak house sign.
15/07/2025

Cornwall bound, hand carved oak house sign.

A glorious afternoon for installing a new sign in the village I spent half my childhood in.
02/07/2025

A glorious afternoon for installing a new sign in the village I spent half my childhood in.

Bath bound, hand carved oak house sign.
07/05/2025

Bath bound, hand carved oak house sign.

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