Inside the Reeve & Co workshop, where 2D and 3D CAD, precision CNC machining and traditional hand craftsmanship meet to make bespoke joinery and kitchens to furniture standard, designed and finished in Suffolk.
Where craft meets precision engineering
The best bespoke joinery is not a choice between the hand and the machine — it is the marriage of the two. Every commission is designed in CAD, cut to fractions of a millimetre, then finished by hand by makers who have spent their lives at the bench.
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Precision where it counts, the hand where it shows
Machinery does not replace the cabinet maker — it frees them.
By letting precision tools do the repetitive, high-tolerance work, our makers spend their hours where they matter most: on the joints, the surfaces and the fit a client actually touches. The result is joinery that is dimensionally exact across a long run of panelling or a whole-house package, yet still carries the depth of a hand-applied finish. The machine raises the floor; the maker raises the ceiling.
Design
It starts in 2D and 3D CAD
Every project is drawn before it is made. We work in 2D and 3D CAD throughout, producing full setting-out and production drawings that let you — and your architect or designer — sign off the detail before a single component is cut. Junctions, reveals, mouldings and finishes are resolved on screen, so what is approved on paper is what arrives on site.
Machining
Cut to the fraction of a millimetre
From the approved drawings, components are machined to exact, repeatable tolerances — every shelf, every face frame, every profile identical to the last. In March 2026 we added a Felder spindle moulder, letting us produce bespoke mouldings and match historic profiles in-house: invaluable in period and listed interiors where new joinery must sit faultlessly beside old.
From drawing to site
One model, one team, every stage
Design in CAD
Drawn in 2D and 3D CAD and approved on screen before anything is cut. What you sign off is what you receive.
Precision machining
Components machined to exact, repeatable tolerances, so a whole-house package reads as one considered piece.
In-house profiling
Our Felder spindle moulder reproduces bespoke and historic mouldings in-house, for period and listed work.
The bench
Assembled, fitted and finished by hand by makers who read the timber and adjust to it. The craftsmanship no machine can automate.
Finishing
Painted and lacquered in our own spray booth, under controlled conditions, to a furniture-grade standard.
One accountable team
The same information flows from CAD to machine to bench to installation — nothing re-drawn or lost between suppliers.
Made responsibly
Made to last, made responsibly
The most sustainable joinery is joinery that lasts a lifetime and can be maintained rather than replaced — the standard we build to. Around that, our Suffolk workshop runs on solar generation, with EV charging on site and biomass heating fuelled by our own timber offcuts, so waste from one job helps heat the workshop that makes the next.
Common questions
How we make it
Do you use CNC machinery or is everything hand-made?
Both, by design. We machine components to exact tolerances using CNC and our own moulding machinery, then assemble and finish by hand at the bench. Technology gives precision; our makers give the work its quality.
Does machinery make the work less bespoke?
No — it makes bespoke achievable to a higher standard. Every piece is still designed from scratch to your project; the machine simply executes the maker’s drawing more precisely than hand-cutting alone could.
Can you match existing or historic mouldings?
Yes. With our spindle moulder we reproduce bespoke and historic profiles in-house, so new joinery matches original fabric in period and listed interiors.
Do you finish the work yourselves?
Yes. All painting and lacquering is done in our own spray booth, to a furniture-grade standard — we never sub-let finishing.
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See the difference precision makes
Talk to us about your project and we’ll show you how it is drawn, made and finished.