Advanced Green Woodwork. (9 days)
A longer course to give students time to complete a demanding project such as a chair with arms. This course covers most chair making techniques including advanced lathe work, complex steam-bending and chair assembly.
Skills:
- Selection of timber
- Green woodwork tools and safety
- Cleaving using froe and axe
- Side axe
- Draw knife / shave-horse
- Pole-lathe
- Adze
- Travisher / inshave / spoke shave
- Advanced steam-bending
- Bark preparation and weaving
- Knife work
- Finishing technique
- Sharpening
Additional
skills:
- Cooking over an open fire
- Using an earth oven
Project:
- Chair with arms
