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Author Archives: stevetomlin
Spoon carving workshop in Northumberland
I have been invited to teach a weekend of Spoon Carving at Catton, near Hexham in Northumberland on 21-22 Feb 2015. The cost is £145 which includes all materials and lunch each day, to book please email me steve-tomlin[at]hotmail.co.uk The … Continue reading
Posted in greenwood courses, spoon carving, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged 2015, course, UK, workshop
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Scythe Poetry
A scythe poem with some lovely imagery for a grey winters day.
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'Out of the Woods' exhibition at Farfield Mill
The ‘Out of the Woods’ exhibition at Farfield Mill will be first chance to see my new range of work in the flesh. You are invited to the preview.. Continue reading
Carving eating spoons
A few photos from the last week taken as I’ve been carving my eating spoons. They’ve proven very popular and I’m especially pleased to have got so many orders from other woodworkers and spoon carvers. The cherry wood is carving … Continue reading
Posted in spoon carving, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged carved, cherry, eating spoon, handmade, wooden
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New Cherry Eating Spoons
I’m so pleased with my latest eating spoons, freshly-carved from Cumbrian cherry. They not only look and work great but they’re a special price, just for my blog readers. Continue reading
Posted in spoon carving, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged cherry, christmas, cumbria, eating spoon, handmade, Sizergh, UK, wooden
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Medlar Jam
Jam from partly-rotten fruit? Well, everyone said it would work so I had to try… Continue reading
Wooden birds and brushes for Lancashire Woodcarvers
What do you do when you’re invited to give a demonstration and teach an afternoon workshop for 15 hobby woodcarvers? I was asked to do just that for the Lancashire branch of the Woodcarvers Association and decided to give them some carving they’d never seen before. Continue reading
Posted in fan birds, greenwood events, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged association, brush, fan bird, greenwood, lancashire, woodcarving
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Peening scythe repairs for lost tension
What do you do when the organiser of the UK’s biggest scythe event wants to make a bet over whether or not you can repair his favourite antique scythe blade? Why, hammer it of course! Continue reading
Posted in peening & sharpening, Scytherspace
Tagged peening, repair, scythe, tension
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Learn to peen a scythe workshop
I’ve just taught the second of two Learn to Peen workshops for the Yorkshire Dales National Park. I’ve been teaching people how to mow with scythes in the park for a couple of years so it was thought that some specific peening courses would be useful to give some of those people confidence in peening which they could then pass on and spread through the networks we’re hoping to build here in the NW. Continue reading
Posted in peening & sharpening, scythe courses, Scytherspace
Tagged Austrian, course, jig, peening, scythe, UK, workshop
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In The Flow at Sprint Mill
As well as two weeks of art and craftwork on display, our C-Art Open Studio exhibition hosted a fantastic night of spoken word with some fantastic pieces inspired by Sprint Mill.
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