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Woodland Candlesticks

A Course to introduce you to Green wood craft and using a Pole Lathe to make a Woodland Candlestick.   Have you ever wanted to make something amazing but lacked the confidence to have a go? This is the course for you: turning green wood on a pole lathe, preparing timber to make useful materials for hand crafts, tool choice and maintenance, and safe tool use. Developing a hobby which connects you with the environment can be profoundly satisfying. Our Tutor is a skilled woodsman who makes greenwood craft for a living and is keen to enthuse new converts to green woodworking

Aims:

The course introduces students to basic pole lathe turning using greenwood.  Make a woodland candlestick

The course covers:

• Health and Safety
• Consider different types of wood and what you can make from it.
• What sort of tools used in Greenwood Craft, and how to use them.
• Cleaving greenwood logs into large billets ready for turning, using a Froe or Axe.
• Cleaving breaks and shaving horses. What they are and how you can use them.
• Creating a 'Woodland Candlestick' by turning using a Pole Lathe and simple hand tools.

Students will cleave harvested wood, and shape it with axes and drawknives to prepare billets for spindle turning . Using simple traditional tools, the materials can be transformed into a beautiful candlestick.

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