Trade Or Custom Enquiries

We love working with restaurants, hotels, bed & breakfasts, cafes and other businesses that need bespoke products made for their premises and customers. From custom signs and branded serving boards to engraved key rings and personalised wooden award plaques – we’ve got you covered.

If you’d like to discuss your requirements directly, call us on 01252 703 196. or complete the form below and we will get right back to you.

Previous trade creations

Over the years, we’ve created a variety of bespoke products for businesses and organisations and individuals, including The National Trust, The BBC, Emma Bridgewater, Twitter, Yeo Valley, Sky, The Co-operative, Center Parcs, The Beatrix Potter Society, Penguin Books, The University of Glasgow, Dorset Cereals, Dubarry, Fareham Borough Council, Google, Watched of Switzerland, the Telegraph and even The Royal Family.

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Recent commissions

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Bespoke Walnut Knife Box with Unique Incorporated Magnetic Knife Rack

A bespoke knife rack to fit inside a bespoke wooden box. This is something you are going to want to take a moment to read thoroughly. A bespoke commission what tested our skill and craftsmanship to the limit! This is it… A solid American Black Walnut knife storage box with integrated magnetic knife stand. Let me spell this out for you… A customer rang me and said, “I have bought some very expensive Japanese Knives in London. I am going to ask the shop to send them to you, as I want you to make me a box to put them in – A very special box – can you do it?” “Yes, of course!” we said. When the knives turned…

Bespoke Engraved Oak Signs

Bespoke engraved oak made for the village of Little Berkhamsted Village in Hertford. Three of these mighty bespoke signs were made, one for each main road bringing you into the village. The handmade sign were nothing like we usually made, apart from being made from solid English Oak and feature engraved lettering, it was the sheer size that made these wooden signs breathtaking. They were made to be very heavy duty to last a good deal of time in their new home in Little Berkhamsted. The oak posts were a whopping 200mm square, that is 8 inches in old money, weighing about 30KG each. (Just the posts) From there we create the oak sign plaques that fitted into the posts…

The Samsung Bespoke Chopping Boards

It’s true, Samsung required some engraved wooden chopping boards and we were only too happy to help create them for them.

The oak chopping boards were handcrafted to order in our Surrey Hills workshop by our team of very skilled craftsmen. As always, the timber we used was hand selected to be as flawless in grain and as beautiful as possible.

David Beckham carves his turkey on a Make Me Something Special board

To all of our customers and website visitors, we hope you had a lovely Christmas and New Year! As always, it was a very busy time for the team at Make Me Something Special. However, luckily for us, we love what we do. As you will all know by now, one thing we will always stand up for at Make Me Something Special, is quality. That’s what we’re all about. Crafting by hand the most stunning and detailed personalised gifts, made only from the world’s finest timbers. Of course, maintaining a high standard of quality means we cannot mass-produce our gifts, as each one must be treated by hand with care and attention to detail. But, that’s okay. Why? Because…

A Very Special Engraved Wooden Tea Light Holder

A very special engraved wooden tea light holder – indeed! Here at MakeMeSomethingSpecial we make the very best engraved wooden tea light holders on the market. So much so, we were commissioned to make this stunning tea light holder. Larger in size and thickness than our usual personalised wooden tea light holders, in order to engrave the stunning inscription and carved motifs. An engraved rose for Rosie.

We made something special for