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Author Archives: stevetomlin
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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Curach frame building
The curach project is underway. Yesterday Edward, Ian and I spent a terrific day working together at Sprint Mill to build the frame from spruce. A local carpenter had machined the pieces to size for us and Edward’s son kindly … Continue reading
Posted in kayaks & boats, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged boat, building, curach, currach, curragh, gunwales, irish, sprint mill
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Peening hammer
The first stage of sharpening a scythe is to peen the blade, drawing out the edge to thin it and give the right bevel angle. When you start out, the peening jig designed and made by Schroeckenfux along with Peter … Continue reading
Posted in peening & sharpening, Scytherspace
Tagged blade, hammer, peen, peening, riveting hammer, scythe, sharpen
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Transylvania Haymaking Festival dates & Scythe royalty
I’ve just been sent the dates for this year’s International Haymaking Festival in Transylvania. The fourth festival will take place on 19-26 August 2012 in Gyimes, Transylvania. Last year’s festival was a wonderful week and the event grows and improves year. … Continue reading
Posted in scythe festivals & events, Scytherspace
Tagged festival, hay, haymaking, mowing, prince charles, romania, scythe, transylvania
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