But you do have to be careful what you call the table. In some churches it is a Nave Altar, in others a Holy Table and in others still a Communion Table. However the expression I like most is God's Board. After all Communion is our remembrance of Jesus' death on the Cross, the place where God did serious business.

Making domestic furniture often gives you more scope to experiment with design and I normally split my day between design and building. Sometimes a design idea instantly springs to mind, on other occasions I can struggle for weeks or months to get the design right.

I have spent many a week at Parnham College learning from master furniture maker Robert Ingham and a day a week for two years at Kingston University studying 3-dimentional design. I've practised and practised and practised and made most of the mistakes you can think of, including slicing the end off my thumb last year. (A photo of the thumb is pinned over the machine as a reminder to be more careful in the future).

In addition I read three magazines, Good Woodworking, Furniture and Cabinet Making and the American magazine Fine Woodworking. I think one of the best ways of learning about a subject is to take a popular magazine and immerse yourself in it. It's how I learnt about photography and sailing.

I recently made six bowls and two goblets and a gavel out of wood from a cedar tree that blew down in St Giles' churchyard in the 1987 storm. They raised a total of £630 in the recent auction in aid of the St George's project.

One of the nice things about my work is to think that if Jesus walked in through the workshop door he would feel at home with the vast majority of my tools, the chisels, planes, spoke-shaves and saws. But I think he'd be a bit more surprised to see the powered hand-tools like the sanders and router, the computer aided design and the laser engraving technology that I also use."