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Author Archives: stevetomlin
Willow chair seating
I wanted to learn how to weave the willow seat that I had found on the chairs made by David Drew. They had aged beautifully during their time in the Castle Drogo cafe and worn extremely well so I knew … Continue reading
Posted in chair making, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged black and white chair, chair, David Drew, green wood, oak, pickled, willow seat
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Scythe Course dates 2012
My course dates and prices for 2012 are finally set, more details on the courses page: Learn to Mow with an Austrian Scythe 26 May, 30 June, 9 Sept 2012 – £60 Scythe Improvers 11 Aug – £70 Improve your … Continue reading
Posted in scythe courses, Scytherspace
Tagged beginners, course, cumbria, improve, learn to mow, learn to scythe, north west, peening, Scotland, scythe, workshop
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Pickled oak chair
So me and my Castle Drogo chair (the only furniture I owned at the time) moved to Cumbria. In time I decided that I would make this one-slat chair part of my new range of handmade green wood chairs. It … Continue reading
Posted in chair making, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged black, black and white chair, Castle Drogo, chair, David Drew, green wood, ladderback, oak, pickled, willow seat
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Ransome's lawn mower
Here is the sentence you thought you’d never read on scytherspace: I’ve got myself a lawn mower. This though, is no ordinary mower, it’s a Ransome’s Ajax push mower from the 1960’s with 12″ wide cutters, solid wood rollers and … Continue reading
Posted in Scytherspace, tools
Tagged cumbria, garden, hay, lawn, meadow, mower, push mower, ransomes ajax, scythe, training
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Rescuing the Castle Drogo chairs
In 2008, a visit to a cafe set in motion a series of connections leading to my newest chair design. I was at Castle Drogo, a National Trust property in Devon where I was living at the time. After a fairly … Continue reading
Posted in chair making, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged basket maker, black and white chair, Castle Drogo, chair, David Drew, green wood, ladderback, National Trust, oak, willow seat
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Bowl carving one-to-one workshop
A great day today teaching Sam Robinson on a one-to-one workshop at Sprint Mill. Sam is a current apprentice on the Bill Hogarth Apprenticeship scheme, now in his second year. We’d been talking about various crafts a couple of weeks … Continue reading
Posted in carved bowls, greenwood courses, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged adze, apprenticeship, Bill Hogarth, Bill Hogarth apprentice, bowl carving, carving, coppice association, course, cumbria, green wood, green woodwork, greenwood, learn, one to one, private tuition, sprint mill, trough, workshop
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Crosscut Saw Jointer & Raker Guage
A flurry of posts this week which is unusual. There’s often lots going on but I don’t always get around to posting about them. Anyway, today I got a stage further with my project to start properly using my two … Continue reading
Posted in SteveTomlinCrafts, tools
Tagged atkins, crosscut saw, jointer, raker guage, saw, sharpening, two man saw
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Blue spindleback dining chair
In between everything else I’m spending quite a bit of time at the moment on designing a series of chairs. I’ve been making green wood chairs since I did a course with Mike Abbott in Herefordshire in 2003. I did … Continue reading
Posted in chair making, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged chair, contemporary, egg, green wood, Mike Abbott, paint, paper rush, rush seat, shaker, spindle back, tempera, traditional
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Saxon Peening Station
I’ve been sent some photos from Michael Stibane in Germany of his peening station which his great-grandfather, who was a cartwright, produced and sold. Peening is done on a flat anvil and by altering the string on the upright pole, the … Continue reading
Posted in peening & sharpening, Scytherspace
Tagged anvil, bench, Germany, peening, Saxon, scythe, station
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Adze, bowl knife and other handles
Anyone getting tired yet of seeing photos of my tools post-fire? Fear not dear reader, I’m nearly at the end now. Later this week I’m teaching a 1-to-1 course on green wood bowl carving for Sam Robinson, one of the … Continue reading
Posted in SteveTomlinCrafts, tools
Tagged adze, Bill Hogarth apprentice, bowl carving, green wood, hand carved, handle, hook knife, workshop fire
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