Back in February we pledged to help our friend Jodi reach the World Para Ice Hockey Finals in Norway next month by donating from every purchase on our website in that month. You can read…

Always striving to add the absolute best products to our portfolio, Martin and Les have recently completed a series of beginner woodturning refresher videos for those students past and present who have attended our Woodturning…

The Hampshire Sheen Finishing Academy celebrates its first anniversary today. The platform has attracted over a thousand users who have enjoyed comprehensive lessons in various languages, enhancing their product use.

Have a read about our visit to the US for demonstrations at SWAT and lessons in Dallas.

Hampshire Sheen was started in 2015. The company listens to customer feedback and collaborates with experienced manufacturers to develop professional standard products. Find out how our products are devised in this post.

Our friend Jodi, is a Paralympic hero. She competed at London 2012 in sitting volleyball and is now a World Champion Para Ice Hockey player. We are committed to helping her fund her attendance at…

Woodturning means different things to different people. To some, woodturning is ‘just’ a hobby that gets them out, creative and active with their hands. To others it is a means of escape, and a chance…

Remember our Christmas competition to raise charity for Mind, the mental health charity? The competition was won by Andrew Slack who retired just the week before the live draw on our social media channels on…

To help our customers save some money this month, we are discounting all orders placed between 5th and 19th January 2024 by 10% If you are not already a customer, you can benefit from the…

Natalja and I send you our very best wishes for the festive season and for a peaceful, healthy and prosperous new year. We also thank you for your custom and support throughout 2023, Even with…

After over a month of headaches and problems, we finally finished our website restructuring. Before I go into the new site’s features, I’d like to thank you for your patience if you have been waiting…

Les Thorne is a name synonymous with woodturning excellence. He brings many years of experience and passion to the craft. These years of experience as a production turner, demonstrator and teacher ultimately led to the…

I am presenting a demonstration Live from 2pm UK time on Friday 27th January. Although it is a technical demonstration rather than one involving finishing, I though you may be interested in finding out about…

I’m joining a worldwide group of 21 great woodturners this weekend for a fantastic event – Meet The Woodturner LIVE! I am presenting my demonstration Live from 2pm on Friday 27th January at 2pm UK…

Find out easy ways to show us your pieces finished with Hampshire Sheen

New world tour of Axminster Stores starting 21st January

After a three year forced break, we are starting a new tour of Axminster Tools stores.

Phase One of our content creation project is complete! Have a read to see what we’ve done so far.

Martin has been filming as much as possible to produce brand new videos demonstrating the recommended basic methods of using our core products.

This range has been months in development and we are over the moon that these professional standard products are now available.

We’re always looking for ways to improve our products, and the latest move to get better is the introduction of QR codes on most of our product range. A QR code is a two-dimensional image…

I’m off to Denmark again on the first weekend of September to demonstrate for the Hampshire Sheen distributor there.

Here’s a short report and some screenshots of the improvers demo on 2nd August.

I nearly fell off my chair when I was approached by the SWAT symposium to invite me to demo for the 2022 event. It’s in 3 weeks time!

Martin goes back to being a student when he visits a local pottery studio for a days tuition.

After a nightmare journey to Berkshire, I presented a contemporary ring box demonstration for this proactive club.

Had a super couple of days weekend at the Yandles Open Day. I was demonstrating woodturning techniques and the Hampshire Sheen brand.

Join Martin on 2nd August for a remote demo for beginners and intermediates to improve their bowl turning.

There are several things I love about remote demonstrations. Here are my thoughts on why I find them so enjoyable to present.

Our first free demonstration for retailers featuring both Martin Saban-Smith AND Les Thorne

For the past year or so, I’ve been concentrating my efforts on a related business but now I am refocusing some efforts on Hampshire Sheen.

Take a look at our new bottles and label design.

It has been a long, long time since I posted any video content other than live streaming, but today, 2nd February I am starting work on a new series of videos. Scheduled to start at…

I’d not done a huge amount of Live Streaming before the Coronavirus visited our shores and the country went into lock-down, but it had been on the to-do list. At the time of writing this,…

There can be no doubt in my mind that the lockdown of people during the Covid-19 pandemic will have world changing consequences. In this article, I think about the changes, both good and perhaps bad,…

There are plenty of changes coming for our little business in 2020. Here, read about new staff, product changes and a few more things besides those in the press release sent out a few weeks…

It’s hard to believe that just over 4 years ago, Hampshire Sheen was being made in the corner of my garage in a saucepan and being poured into simple aluminium pots. Now though, the company…

Back in late October or early November, I was approached by Hallmark Jewellery of Titchfield, Hampshire about whether I would be interested in making a base for a very special candelabra they were designing and…