Osborne Restoration

Category: Fiddle rail

  • A little “Nipper” stove ready for home

    A little “Nipper” stove ready for home

    Here we have a nice little “Nipper” stove ready to head back home.  Due to their compact size these stoves were used in all sorts of place from caravans, boats, cabins and offices.  At 21″ wide they can fit almost anywhere

  • Stunning Hostess No35 for showmans van

    Stunning Hostess No35 for showmans van

    They might be a lot of work but these brilliant little Hostess range really are a thing to behold.  These ranges would have been fitted to the vast majority of travelling wagons and van for both the showmen and gypsies of the late 19th/ early 20th century.  This examples dates from circa 1920 and now restoration is complete it will be returned to its original van

  • Back cabin stove for narrowboat ‘Dane’

    Back cabin stove for narrowboat ‘Dane’

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    Here are some patterns that I have prepared this week for a back cabin stove in the narrowboat ‘Dane’ (1909). The stove is incredibly rare these days but would have once been found in most of the motor boats of the early 20th century.
    I am doing a lot of work to this range at present so further updates will follow.

  • Torwood Dover

    Here is a very nice Torwood Dover complete with brass fiddle rail and polished name plate. I have more of this type and similar in stock so visit the ‘Contact’ page above if you are interested.

  • Patterns for replica fiddle rail standards

    On the left here you can see an original fiddle rail standard from the back cabin stove of the working narrowboat ‘Dane’ dating from 1909. These rail standards were used on a huge number of working boats throughout the 19th and 20th century. On the right is the first split pattern turned from beech by Charlie Watts, a very talented Somerset based wood turner. These more to come and then we’ll be into casting the first batches of these standards for our replica Guidwife and Larbert back cabin stoves.

    If you’d like to get in touch with Charlie please visit his website here; http://www.wattsturning.co.uk/