Meet the people
behind the craft.

Daniel is the hands-on maker behind Spindles Woodturning and Stairs Parts. He began learning woodcraft in 1995, serving his apprenticeship with a respected Yorkshire wood-turning company before building a workshop around traditional turning, careful matching and made-to-measure pieces.

Every Spindles commission is shaped by Daniel’s standards: practical advice, honest materials and a first sample piece where the work needs signing off before a larger run begins.

Traditional wood turning is an increasingly rare trade. Daniel sees part of his role as protecting that knowledge — keeping the lathe work precise, repeatable and rooted in the craft he learned as an apprentice.

Kai joined the connected Honley workshop as an apprentice and has grown into a fully trained, skilled member of the team. Today, as Workshop Manager, he helps keep the wider workshop moving with the care, pace and consistency bespoke work demands.

His role reaches across handmade furniture, kitchens, wardrobes, fitting, finishing, restoration, stripping and fine paint spraying — the practical disciplines that sit alongside Daniel’s specialist woodturning work.

Kai also supports the apprentices coming through behind him, sharing the habits and workshop discipline that turn raw skill into dependable craftsmanship.