About the Little Orchard Workshop
My Idea
My Expertise
My Expertise
The
Little Orchard Workshop
is my little happy place where I can shut out the world and work on projects that bring me peace and joy to those I produce work for.
It is only me and occasionally Pennie the dog.
My Expertise
My Expertise
My Expertise
My skill set could be summed up as 'updated old school'
I have the regular skill set of of a typical useful fella from a generation or so ago. With the addition of a lifetime of tinkering with computers and machines.
And a never used Degree in Industrial Design (Eng.)
My Equipment
My Expertise
My Equipment
I use a protectional level CNC machine. Purchaced in 2025
Its a very capable machine that can produce the carving for the map in about 3 hours of machine time.
Of course that is only a part of the process of producing the map.
Commission a specially made historic map carving.
It can be where you live or where your business is located. Or a location that is significant to you.
Using historical maps, I create carvings in wooden panels that show how an area once looked, each one centred on a place that holds meaning for you. Every piece is made in my small workshop here in the Black Country, where I use modern software and professional CNC machinery to carve these maps into hardwood panels. The result is a detailed, lasting reminder of how towns, villages, and landscapes once were. I’ve always loved old maps and the and stories they spark, especially in older generations who remember how things used to be. I capture a little of that history in each carving, turning a piece of the past into something you can hold and keep.
Very easy to order, just provide your location, a simple post code will do it or even a particular Village town or district of a city. That’s all you need to do. Ill do all the rest.
When I have the location your interested in ill send you some examples of the maps available for that location through time and send them to you in an email or WhatsApp. Just pic your preferred map and that’s it.
I will carve the map and send it out to you in the post.
The maps are not glass fronted so they are post-able but I pack them very well anyway.
Although they are wood rather than canvas they hang in the normal way like any other picture or painting, and they come with hanging fitting pre-installed so any nail will do just fine.
How it works as a step by step guide
Tell us your special address
We find and send you map options
We find and send you map options
Enter a UK Post code with the address that holds meaning to you - this could be your childhood home, your grandparents' house, or any address from your past.
We find and send you map options
We find and send you map options
We find and send you map options
We'll research and create 3 to 5 detailed maps of your chosen location.
You chose the one that you love the most and tell me which it is.
We Carve and Ship it
We find and send you map options
We Carve and Ship it
We carve your selected map into high-quality far eastern solid core hard ply wood sheet. Frame it and send it to your door.
AI designs Carved in Hardwood
This is why I started with CNC machines. Two things came to me over time. One that AI could create wonderful abstract images. And CNC machines are capable of reproducing very complex patterns. When those two things are put together which is not at all straightforward, you can get something quite mesmerising.