We work with a variety of groups including:
parent/child ( stool making / wilderness weekends only) friendship and coporate.
GREEN WOODWORK
Green woodwork uses newly cut, un-seasoned wood and relies on traditional skills such as foot pedalled pole lathe turning, cleaving and shaving.
Chairmaking courses
Chris Matthews has been working, designing and teaching for many years and has a vast knowledge of woodland and its produce. This will be his second season at Spinney Hollow and we are delighted to welcome him back
The course will teach you how to use traditional skills such as pole lathing , cleaving, steaming, using a shaving horse and gives you a general understanding of how to work with green wood
Choose your design on day one and by day 6 take it home with you and enjoy your new knowledge that you can set up in your own garden or shed or anywhere with a bit of space
For More information please go to http://www.thewoodlandworkshop.co.uk/
Stool making weekend workshops
Come for the Weekend and learn how to make your own stool whether for your bottom or you feet, it uses the same simple principles as the chair making but without the steambending which therefore makes it a quicker
look at the dates page for prices and availability.
A brief look at the process of making a chair/stool
Select your piece of wood to work with.
Cleave your wood into manageable parts using the cleaving break, froe and maul.
Sort your wood into pile for legs/rungs/rails/slats and any other extras you decide on.<
Use the side axe to pair your cleaved bits down so that they will fit into the shaving horse.
Using a draw knife shave your pieces down to the appropriate size and saw to the right measurement.
Then onto the pole lathe to turn your tennons which will enable your chair to piece tog
The parts that need to be kilned go in and if your making a chair the back legs need to be steam bent
When all your parts are done its a case of clamping and cranking them together ( which makes a lovely sound!)
The final stage involves seating you chair/stool -whether in sizal/sea grass or bark and then oiling to protect
and voila your very own chair/stool
