Heartwood Magazine is the latest launch by Nick Gibbs, who has been a magazine editor all his professional life. He has launched titles as diverse as Sailing Today and The World of Photo Memories and Good Woodworking, and it is within the woodworking communities that he is best known. Founded in 2006, his Freshwood Publishing was home to British Woodworking, Smallwoods, Living Woods and Quercus. He is now launching Heartwood Magazine, with many Living Woods regulars including Le Shack, the Wood Food Guide and Kit & Courses. The magazine will be distributed as a free PDF, the first issue published in the New Year.

Meanwhile he founded Fairway Originals in 1998, wanting to pool his skills, experience and love of wood and golf. He dedicates much of his spare time producing replicas of famous and favourite golf holes, made from the finest English hardwoods, on courses anywhere in the world. Such has been the success of Nick’s craftsmanship that a Fairway Originals replica of the 8th Hole on The Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland was commissioned by The Royal & Ancient as a special tribute and gift for a retiring CEO.