Bristol Design tool shop
14 Perry Rd
Bristol BS1 5BG
England
+44 (0)117 929 1740
Woodworking Tools used and vintage plus many others
14 Perry Rd, Bristol BS1 5BG, England
Our phone number is back, ported over to VOIP. It’s been yet another day trying to get things to work but think its now working. Can call us again on 0117 929 1740 as always. Now does need the dialing prefex 0117 to work. These changes in phones from old copper wires to internet VOIP systems is happening everywhere. Some of our experiences and hints.Will elaborate latter on another page.
Normally We are OPEN the full 6 days of week Mon through Sat 9:30 to 5:30
Partly dependent on train and bus services, if disrupted could be late opening. Call to check.
Best to phone 0117 929 1740 just to check if traveling long distance.
Bristol Design sells tools, old tools, second hand tools, nearly new tools and even some new tools. OK, we are a tool shop but also can sharpen tools chisels, plane irons, knives, axes for customers. Our aim is to have some of every tool ever made, OK, silly aim we fall well short of but do have a wide selection.
Woodworking in its numerous guises is catered for as can be seen in some of the photos while metal working and craft tools are also here.
Not our sort of tools for sale but ones that can be useful and in some cases one of the most important safety feature in any workshop – computers and phones.
We were pushed into the phone scenario with eminent demise of landlines, but I’ve been aware of the safety aspect since starting working on my own.
Inside the shop
We are a rather uncommon type of tool shop, one specializing in older hand tools and specially woodworking ones though all other types can be found here..
We have the standard Stanley, Record planes, but also Norris, Spiers, Matheson, Preston, etc. Plough, rebate, bullnose, mitre jointer’s to block planes all here.
Green woodworking tools like froes, side axes, adze, spoon knives. Sharpening stones, chisels, squares and more.
Many of our tools are hard to find elsewhere, the older tools that have a quality now hard to find in new ones made down to a price, the ones no longer in production. Add to this with new tools we make or commission for less usual tasks in woodworking or where the highest quality is wanted.
Yes, the way some jobs are now done have made many tools nearly redundant so we are catering for a small minority market with much of our stock. It’s still work needed.
We also have a very wide range of more common second hand tools.
Tools to sell
Yes we buy tools (and accept donations). Our customers are buying tools to use on the whole so we like tools in good condition. Age isn’t necessarily a big thing (in tools or people) so grandfathers rusty, broken plane from 1930’s isn’t a valuable antique but it might still be of use to someone. If you want to bring them to the shop give us a call first so Charles is here. We can travel to collect tools as well, again give a call and a date and time can be arranged.
More written about us in the local paper. See our About Us page.
Caution - Clean Air Zone Started 28 Nov 2022. Active Now
Bristol has introduced a “Clean Air Zone” covering virtually all of central Bristol. We are in the zone.
If you drive anything other than a relatively new vehicle it could hit you with a fairly hefty charge. A Map of the area covered is at Map
More info on our Visit Bristol page.
The cycle lane “plastic wands” are along both side of our road but a proper loading bay is now functional just opposite the shop with another on our side up along the road. Parking or even stopping is restricted or difficult in the whole area with Trenchard Street Car Park now the best option.
Left turns up St Michael’s hill or right turns down St Michael’s hill are in place. Need to do the extra driving down to St James Barton roundabout (Bear Pit) and back up. OK, it adds congestion, traffic fumes, time and mileage but that is what Bristol wants it seems.
We’ve been here over 40 years and hope that these road changes don’t tip us over the edge of survival. It does seem to damage a lot of patients and visitors to our adjacent multiple hospitals, but the council refused extra patient parking and a bus hub for them. Political dogma overrides any empathy.
Now the legal stuff:
The small print
Bristol Design® is a trademark of Charles Stirling and Bristol Design, and is registered with the Trademark Offices in the UK.
Website and photographs are copyright and not to be reused without written permission.
Cookies, an essential food item but not to be consumed in excess. At the moment here only used occasionally and still mainly as a food item. We have found building a website so many web building apps put cookies in that we can’t do without completely, but shouldn’t be a problem if turned off. We may sometime will start selling items on the site and having all the sign in types of requirements but not there yet.
We have put on Google analytics to see if anyone actually visits and this does put down cookies but if you turn them off no problem.