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The Boleyn Workshop
One bloke, one workshop. He just wants some peace and quiet, three points for the Hammers or a decent cup run.
Now twinned with the Zakwood Workshop in Embu, Kenya
And featuring Julian Harrisons Workshop dedicated to vintage machine restoration.
For reasonably up to date maroon and red goings-on instead of trawling the whole website for something new please go direct to Inside the Boleyn 2024
Welcome to a website dedicated to machinery from the Coronet Tool Co which was founded in Derby by the late Charles Parker in the 1940s. I restore, use and maintain several of these machines with an ever changing workshop inventory. I have a pair of helping hands in the shape of the trusty AC who is learning the trade and eating my biscuits. Update: AC has been largely replaced by his younger brother the trusty RC who also enjoys eating biscuits but specialises in starting fires. Most of the photos are of my machines but pictures of machines owned by the sites visitors are also featured in Readers Machines. I am not an expert and have no formal training unless you can count CSE woodwork. I am just a bloke with a workshop with a keen interest in these well designed machines built in a time when British engineering was the best in the world. I have learnt from my own experience, other site visitors who have become friends, site visitors who have offered their own knowledge and the legendary Derek Pyatt from www.coronetwoodworking.co.uk. I have sent instruction manuals all over the UK and Europe, as far as South Africa not to mention Australia and New Zealand but I don't think I can beat Derek Pyatt's enquiry from the Seychelles. Spare parts have gone the same places including Malta and I recently donated Coronet Minor spares to a carpenter and joiner called Zak Muchina in Kenya. The Boleyn Workshop is now twinned with his workshop in the spirit of international woodworking and friendship.
Also featured are some American machines from the also defunct Walker Turner factory and a pre 1914 Tyzack table saw.
Instruction manuals:
Coronet Major- Derek Pyatt www.coronetwoodworking.co.uk email: derekpyatt23@gmail.com
Coronet Minor and Minorette - Derek Pyatt see above
Coronet Elf only available in pdf-£6 or Derek Pyatt see above
Coronet Consort red and blue models- Derek Pyatt see above
Brook Gryphon 1hp motor diagram- free. Email dorsethammer@hotmail.co.uk
The Coronet Major.
The Coronet Majorette
The Coronet Minor
The Coronet Minorette
The Coronet Elf
The Coronet Imp
The Coronet Consort
The Coronet International Woodworker
The Coronet Capitol
The Coronet Diamond
I'm not going to pretend that I know anything about this classic and rarely found machine except that it is a Coronet and that it is a jewellers or watchmakers lathe. On sale on *bay right now, price recently dropped from £500 to £350. Another two hundred and fifty quid and I'd be interested. Along with ten million other people. It is featured out of interest.
Always wanted are old Coronet adverts, magazine pictures or articles and manuals. How about loaning them to be scanned and uploaded to the site for general interest before returning? All postage paid. Please contact me at dorsethammer@hotmail.co.uk Thanks.
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- FOR SALE
- About the Boleyn
- Home
- Zakwood Workshop Embu KENYA
- Julian Harrisons Workshop
- Inside the Boleyn (2005-2012)
- Inside the Boleyn 2013
- Inside the Boleyn 2014
- Inside the Boleyn 2015
- Inside the Boleyn 2016
- Inside the Boleyn 2017
- Inside the Boleyn 2018
- Inside the Boleyn 2019
- Inside the Boleyn 2020
- Inside the Boleyn 2021
- Inside the Boleyn 2022
- Inside the Boleyn 2023
- Inside the Boleyn 2024
- Technical Stuff
- Speed reduction gearbox fitting and operating instructionss
- An Interview with Derek Pyatt
- Apollo no1 stove
- Coronet Imp bandsaw-blade-setting-advice
- Coronet Imp official hints on using
- Brook Gryphon 1hp motor connection diagram
- Charles Parker
- Coronet advertising etc
- Coronet Woodworking Machines catalogue
- Coronet Capitol planer
- Coronet Sovereign planer
- Coronet Classic 10 bandsaw
- Coronet Imp bandsaw
- Coronet Consort
- Coronet Elf
- Coronet Hobby lathe
- Coronet Home Cabinetmaker
- Coronet International Woodworker
- Coronet Major
- Coronet Majorette
- Coronet Major General
- Coronet Minor
- Coronet Minor paperwork
- Coronet Minorette
- Ernest's Coronet Minor
- Readers Machines
- More Readers Machines
- Even More Readers Machines
- Yet More Readers Machines
- MILFs
- Guestbook and comments