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Rustic Chair Making
Learn to make and take home a rustic chair made in green wood
Two day course
Experience the wonder and skills of the early 'Rustic Chair Maker' by making your own rustic chair over 2 days.
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 utilize small trees and logs. It is therefore green in all senses of the word.
Rustic chairs are made from rounds of Hazel wood in its natural form. Ash seats are made from slats, using Green wood. This is a great course that anyone can do - with little or no experience.
Aims:
The course introduces students to greenwood craft and the basic skill required to make and take away a rustic chair.
The course covers: