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Triton Tools and Furniture & Cabinetmaking know that there’s some great stuff being made in garages, sheds and purpose-built workshops all over the UK, and we want to see it. To lure the best into the daylight Triton is offering a prize pot of £5,000. The competition is composed of three categories: Students and first-year graduates, Amateurs and Professionals. Each winner will receive £1,000 worth of tools with the second place winner in each being awarded £250 worth. In addition, the entrant judged to be the Triton Woodworker of the Year winner will receive an additional £1000 worth of tools. That leaves £250 to be awarded at the discretion of the judges, F&C editor Derek Jones, sister title Woodworking Plans & Projects’ editor Matt Long and two Triton-nominated judges.

To enter all you need do is submit good-quality digital photographs showing front, back, left-, right-hand side and top views if possible, plus detail views, by 9 September 2010 and then sit back and bite your nails. The judges will draw up a shortlist from the entry photos and then will be touring the country to get a first-hand look at your work. Finally, a winner – the Triton Woodworker of the Year – and category winners and second places will be determined and the prizes awarded at a special ceremony.

How to enter

To enter, all you have to do is send us on a CD the stipulated photographs of your work, along with the name of the category you are entering, your name, address, daytime phone number and email address. Closing date is 9 September 2010 but we would of course like to see entries as soon as possible in order to feature them in the magazine in the run up to the final. Enclose a description of the work including timber, dimensions, your inspiration and how long the piece or structure tool to make. We would also like to hear about any woodworking or related training and qualifications you may have.