The Cherry Wood Project

 

• basic green woodwork
• intermediate green woodwork
• advanced green woodwork
• earth oven building
• build a pole lathe or shave horse
• tool sharpening
• harvest & weave Elm bark
• coppice weekend
• bowmaking
• arrowmaking
• charcoal burning
• hurdle making
• spoon carving
• project week
• parents & children activity day
• family woodland weekend
• corporate/individual programmes

Bowmaking

Make your own longbow or shortbow in Ash or Wych Elm. Includes an introduction to arrow making.

Skills introduced:

• Selection of timber for bows and arrows
• Cleaving and side axe
• Use of the froe
• Using draw knife and shave horse