Introduction to Greenwood Craft - £225.00

Friday 2nd - Sunday 4th October 2015

A 3 day Course to introduce you to Green wood craft, using a Pole Lathe, basic craft tools and making simple Rustic furniture.  

Over the course, you will  cover the following:

1. Consider different types of native timbers [wood] and what you can make from it.

2. Be introduced to the various types of tools used in Greenwood Craft, and how to use them.

3. Learn the art of 'Cleaving or Reaving' from Hazel rods to large billets of timber..

4. Use of Cleaving breaks and shaving horses. What they are and how they can be of use.

5. Preparing to make  a 'Rustic Garden Stool'  having mastered the various equipment & tools used in greenwood craft, and will look at the basics of pole lathe turning techniques to make a rustic stool.

Students will cleave harvested wood, and shape it with axes and drawknives to prepare billets for spindle turning . By using simple traditional tools, the materials can be transformed into a range of useful and decorative items.

Your objective will be to make a 'Jointed' Rustic Stool using greenwood working techniques. What is Green Wood? Green Wood is freshly felled, still sappy wood.

 To work it requires a set of simple techniques based on an understanding of how wood reacts - both to the tools, and to the dry and shrinking process. Because it is green, the wood is soft and easy to work with hand tools, and because of this, green woodwork creates little waste, and can utilise small trees and logs. It is therefore green in all senses of the word. Rustic stools are made from cleft timber [Ash or Sycamore]. with legs of Ash in its natural form. This makes a very simple stool, and is a great course to develop your greenwood craft skills, either as a hobby, or the first steps on a new craft career!

Arrive:   15 minutes prior to a 9:30am start

Depart:   4pm, although this is approximate.

Directions:   Please look at the map featured on the website.

What to bring:  warm work clothes, pen and notebook, packed lunch

Let us know: if you have any special needs  

Price:   £225.00

Refundable up to two weeks prior to course (minus £30 admin fee)
No refunds for cancellations within two weeks of course

What’s included:  All timber and tool use.   Refreshment and biscuits throughout the day.

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