“Miller’s Of Sedgemoor” The home of blogs & interests of Mark Miller
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Storfront: Dustys attic currently contains seconhand items, antiques and hand crafted furniture and wood turning items; I will be soon adding a new section for items of interest to peole with boats wheter costal or inland waterways there will be items crafted and created for your boating pleasure.
Sailing: The recently added section on boats and sailing I hope will interest and encourage some welcome interaction with like minded people. There will be sections on sailing and boating in general, blog spot on our Lytton Tornado a 24Ft twin keel sloop, plus a few pages of local history of harbours ports and shipbuilders here in Somerset.
Weston-super-Mare Tide Times
Others: As well as new stuff and updates to existing stuff, there are some great stories and interesting projects from other talented people, Ive been slightly sidetracked by their adventures of late, not only would I love to share these but Id love for those interested to get involved where possible.
Other places of interest
Tally Ho – Built by Albert Strange 1910
I’ve been following a project with great interest and decided to be a Patron along with many others; Leo Golden apprenticed in a few of my past haunts including Polruen on the Fowey river, he also spent a lot of his time in his early days at R&B in Bristol Harbour. Now an extremely talented & Knowledgable sailor but he is an amazing puzzle solving shipwright; well worth visiting his current mamoth project on U Tube.
Leo is in the states rebuilding a beautiful 1910 Bristol Channel Piolet Cutter called “Tally Ho”, a ship that comes with a fascinating pedigree and history. She is quite simply a massive undertaking and my hats off to Leo and those who have ventured to the US to help him. I’ve spent the best part of a year following his progress & so proud to support Leo; if I was fit enough I would be out there for a few weeks and lending a hand in this amazing part of history.
Once completed Leo plans to bring her back across the Atlantic and down the river Avon into Bristol once more, my hope is I’ll have “Latte” shipshape and be able to sail in with her from the bristBristol channel.
Follow Leo’s U Tube channel and dont feel shy of starting at Cpt1 and catching up; you wont be dissapointed.
Tally Ho I’ll be adding a full dedicated page to Leo and “Tally Ho” with contacts and links to Leo’s pages and videos here “The Sampson Boat Co” The website is also linked WEBSITE
Woodwork & Turning: So back to us and my wooden pasttimes, where i create and craft items from bowls to furniture and make to order bespoke maritine items such as Sheet pins, Tillers, Handles and ornimental items.
Furniture
Undershelf Coffee Table
Furniture is a small portion of what I make now, being restricted with health but I do still make the odd piece. I will always consider commissioned pieces or requested for anything required.
Most of the furniture, clocks & household items I make are produced with traditional methods, joinery & hand tools some of which are themselves restored and over a hundred years old.
I always try and source timbers from a sustainable resource, I also enjoy using reclaimed timber, especially for clocks and frames.
From time to time I also have some beautiful old furniture in for restoration, see Furniture restoration where you can follow some transformations and purchase some from the store.
Clocks
Pine Wall Clock
A range of clocks to suit your home or office are all made by hand from various timber types including recycled woods. The mechanisms are generally fitted with a reliable quartz movement and can be ticking or silent as an option Casement clocks and Wall clocks are my favourites to make, I’ve got a very strong personal like for Art Deco / Nevo and Arts & Crafts but I can design and make from a guideline to suit a personal requirement. I do some restorations on old-time pieces, clock movements I hand to a professional clockmaker so I know things leave here right.
Homewares
Silhouette Blackboards
A range of items including Bread & Cheese boards – Chalkboards – Cutlery box’s – Display units – Bookshelves – Dress mirror’s
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Painting and Artwork
I still create my artwork from time to time and these can be seen by following the link below. I may well add some more soon, I’ve not painted or drawn for some time due to eyesight and shoulder issues due to surgery; I’m starting to get the itch to try once more, I’ve really missed this part of my life and really hope I can create something soon.
Ron’s Harley
As most of you know I began to favour digital, I really enjoy it each painting is created stroke by stroke using digital brushes & tablet. The painting is built up with hand-mixed colours and each brushmark is done separately.
I’m happy to create a portrait or painting from a favourite photograph. The finished item comes as a high-quality digital image and or printed onto a canvas, framed or unframed.
My only requirement is that you supply a high-quality image to work from, the final painting will be to a degree influenced by the quality of the photograph where I am unfamiliar with the subject to be emulated.
Contact me for further details.
Website creation and Hosting still available: We use GreenGeeks as our server provider the green option. 
The association of Woodturners of Great Britain
AWGB
A member of AWGB (Association of Woodturners of Great Britain) if you fancy trying wood-turning you may want to give them a try? Young or old AWGB have instructors who would be happy to give the opportunity: Learning from each other is always a good thing
Best regards
Mark Miller
(Make like a sponge, soak it up for later).