A lifelong woodworker and extremely active member of the Woodworkers Association of Pretoria since 1992, Neville Comins recently retired from the position of Director of Material Sciences at the CSIR and founding CEO of The Innovation Hub.
In issue #22 of The Woodworker Sessions, we are extremely grateful to Neville for welcoming us into his workshop and his woodworking world!
I am constantly fascinated by the historical methods of furniture construction, the unsurpassed beautiful lines of pre-industrial furniture and the tools that were used.
I love designing, building and teaching. I believe that I am a good student of the craft and the more I learn, the more I realise just how little I know! For me, it is a constant process of challenging myself. I always use traditional joinery methods, proportioning methods and hand tools wherever I can.
