The UK’S favourite Tool Show is back and set to be even bigger and better. FFX have yet again brought together all the biggest manufacturers to give you the best hands on tool show for the professional and DIYer. Building on the success of the previous shows, 2015 is set to be twice the size and moving to the brand new Maidstone Exhibition Hall in Kent.
Axminster Tools & Machinery is expanding the retail side of its business once again. With representation already in the home counties, Midlands and north west, the tool retailer is now planning to open a store in the north east at North Shields, which is located about eight miles from the region’s major city, Newcastle.
The summer of 2014 will be remembered amongst certain woodworkers as the year that brought the classic English tool chest home. A design that has been transported around the globe for centuries, it has become the symbolic emblem of a true craftsman. Light weight and built to withstand the rigors of a typical journeyman, the hand tools inside have quite literally shaped our world.
