Evening Taster Sessions – Whittling Workshops
£18.00
Evening Whittling Workshops
Thursday Evenings, 7pm – 9pm
Our series of evening whittling workshops aims to introduce you to the basics of working with green wood. Perfect for anyone who wants to immerse themselves in the world of woodwork, book on one of them, or book on all of them for a thorough introduction to green wood carving.
Spatula Carving 12th January 2023
Spatulas are one of the true workhorses of the kitchen. Why not learn how to carve your own, to whatever design you want? Come and learn the basics of green wood carving, using a Mora straight knife and a piece of green wood to carve a beautiful spatula, ready to be put to use.
Butter Spreader Carving 19th January 2023
Learn how to carve a Swedish style butter spreader using basic knife grips and lovely green wood. Also perfect to use for serving condiments.
Miniature Bowl Carving 26th January 2023
Learn the basics of making hollow forms using vices and spoon knives. This course teaches you how to read and work with wood grain in hollow forms, which is transferrable to other projects such as spoons, kuksas and larger bowls. Take home a perfect salt pinch pot or jewellery dish.
All courses take place at our workshop on Stepney City Farm, Stepney Way, London, E1 3DG unless otherwise stated. 18 Years and older.
All course bookings are non refundable, and class dates cannot be transferred once booked
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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, walking away with a beautiful new tool!
All courses take place at our workshop on Stepney City Farm, Stepney Way, London, E1 3DG unless otherwise stated
All course bookings are non refundable, and class dates cannot be transferred once booked.
Furniture Making Workshops
Come for a day and make a stool or a whole weekend and take home a bench!
These workshops run concurrently – so if you’d like to book a day making a stool, you can book either day or book the whole weekend to make the bench
Perfect for absolute beginners.
Master some of the core aspects of furniture making, as you craft a simple, robust and beautiful 3-legged stool from cleft chestnut and seasoned hardwood seat. On this course you learn core skills and techniques of traditional furniture making, including using shavehorses, drawknives, and planes, and constructing solid joints with age old through and wedged round tenons.
For someone who wants to invest a little more time in creating a larger piece of furniture for the home – our tutor Tim will take you through how to make a beautiful bench over the weekend. You will learn core skills and techniques of traditional furniture making, and use the Japanese scorching technique of Shou Sugi Ban to take a recycled scaffold plank to a gorgeous finish. Leaving with a completed bench, without the need for nails.
All courses take place at our workshop on Stepney City Farm, Stepney Way, London, E1 3DG unless otherwise stated
All course bookings are non refundable, and class dates cannot be transferred once booked
Weekend Taster Sessions – Whittling Workshops
Weekend Whittling Workshops
Our whittling workshops aims to introduce you to the basics of working with green wood. Perfect for anyone who wants to immerse themselves in the world of woodwork.
Spatula & Butter Spreader Carving
25th February 10am – 1pm
Spatulas are one of the true workhorses of the kitchen. Why not learn how to carve your own, to whatever design you want? Come and learn the basics of green wood carving, using a Mora straight knife and a piece of green wood to carve a beautiful spatula, ready to be put to use. Learn how to carve a Swedish style butter spreader using basic knife grips and lovely green wood. Also perfect to use for serving condiments.
Miniature Bowl Carving
25th February 2pm – 5pm
Learn the basics of making hollow forms using vices and spoon knives. This course teaches you how to read and work with wood grain in hollow forms, which is transferrable to other projects such as spoons, kuksas and larger bowls. Take home a perfect salt pinch pot or jewellery dish.
All courses take place at our workshop on Stepney City Farm, Stepney Way, London, E1 3DG unless otherwise stated. 18 Years and older.