Adrian Swinstead found his vocation in a valley in Wales when, armed with a hefty piece of wood, he first learned the art of hunting for bog oak. Bog oak, for the uninitiated, is an extraordinarily ...

The bog oak snare is the only standard size snare here and it is fabulous… at a fabulous price that extremely few can contemplate. It's worth noting, however, that classical musicians regularly take ...

‘Dancing at the Crossroads’ themed sculpture created by local master craftsman to be presented to US President Joe Biden on St Patrick’s day Jeremiah Dennehy and his son Denis with the bespoke bog oak ...

BOG OAK IS the name given to the wood from ancient trees preserved in peat bogs throughout Ireland. When dug up and exposed to air, the wood turns a jet black colour. During the 19th century, bog oak ...

It took 20 people to lift each dense bog oak plank into the specially built drying kiln Work has begun to transform a rare 5,000-year-old oak tree, unearthed in a Norfolk field, into a "breath-taking" ...

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Work has begun to transform a rare 5,000-year-old oak tree, unearthed in a Norfolk field, into a "breath-taking" work of art to be viewed by the nation. The 44ft (13.4m) Fenland Black Oak was dug out ...