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Bench Making Weekend Workshop
Sat & Sun | 10-6pm
Make a beautiful bench from recycled timber, using classic woodworking techniques. All exclusively with the use of hand tools, complete with pegged joints and tapered mortise and tenons. Suitable for absolute beginners.
Over the weekend you will shape your legs, form solid joints and use a scorching technique to take a recycled scaffold plank to a gorgeous burnt finish. Leaving with a completed bench, without the need for nails or power tools.
Joinery is a core aspect of woodwork – to the extent that it may be the only aspect that the average person is aware of. At the Green Wood Guild we know that this is not the case, but we hugely value the role joinery plays in our craft. In this class you will learn to use shavehorses and drawknives, tapered tenon cutters, and reamers, as well as how to drill with accuracy, and how to use drawbore joints, one of our favourite joints here at the Green Wood Guild.
If classes have to be cancelled due to Covid-19, we will get you booked on a suitable date as soon as possible.
Otherwise, all course bookings are non refundable, and class dates cannot be transferred once booked.
Intro Day
10am-6pm
An introductory day consisting of 2 satisfying projects – that together cover a range of essential skills in traditional woodwork.
This is perfect for those that would like to try their hand at everything, or want to lay a solid groundwork for the more in-depth workshops they’ve got their eye on.
Wood Turning Intro –
Covering the basics of turning on a treadle lathe. Starting with a log, you will prepare your billet by splitting it out using axe, froe and mallet, shaping it on a shavehorse using a drawknife, before turning it on the lathe to make a traditional potato masher. This workshop will immerse you into a time honored craft, as you learn the rhythm of the lathe and how to use 3 types of chisels and gouges effectively. This introductory class is a great way to get a taste for treadle lathe work.
Making a Chopping Board –
A perfect introduction to the use of traditional hand planes, used in almost any joinery or furniture making project. This workshop will teach you the elusive art of taking a rough surface and planing it perfectly smooth and flat, as you make a simple, beautiful chopping board for your kitchen.
You’ll learn the use of 3 varieties of hand plane, some important theory and a brief introduction into Framesaws and knife carving techniques.
If classes have to be cancelled due to Covid-19, we will get you booked on a suitable date as soon as possible.
Otherwise, all course bookings are non refundable, and class dates cannot be transferred once booked.
Knife Forging Day Workshop
One day workshop 9am to 5pm
These knife forging classes taught by Tom at the Green Wood Guild guide you through making your very own carving knife. Being able to take a rough bit of stock steel and turn it into a beautifully functioning edge tool is extremely satisfying, and very empowering!
On this one-day class you will learn how to make a ‘straight’ knife, the perfect wood carving tool used for everything from spoons to shrink pots, as well as being useful in many other larger projects. This class is suitable for people with no tool making experience. You will forge and sharpen your own blade, as well as carving the handle, and weaving a bark sheath to protect it, walking away with a beautiful new tool!
If classes have to be cancelled due to Covid-19, we will get you booked on a suitable date as soon as possible.
Otherwise, all course bookings are non refundable, and class dates cannot be transferred once booked.
Bowl Carving Day Class
A one day introduction to bowl carving
10am to 6pm
Learn to make a beautiful wooden bowl from native green hardwood using ancient hand tools. The adze, used to hollow out the bowl, has been in our culture since the stone age and is a wonderful introduction to the other traditional edge tools used to create your bowl. Over the course of the day you will use an axe, drawknife and pushknife to shape the outside of the bowl, and a gouge, scorp and hook knife to refine the inside.
In addition to giving you an introduction to a variety of hand tools, this course will give you a real insight into the three dimensional functionality of an object which has been used by humans for thousands of years.
Our bowl carving course runs from 10:00 to 18:00, during which time you will learn many different carving techniques, learn about how green wood differs from seasoned wood, and of course, at the end of the day you will take home a beautiful, functional wooden bowl.
If classes have to be cancelled due to Covid-19, we will get you booked on a suitable date as soon as possible.
Otherwise, all course bookings are non refundable, and class dates cannot be transferred once booked.