Author Archives: stevetomlin

Willow cutting for Walter Lloyd

Posted on March 2, 2011 by stevetomlin

Walter Lloyd is a well-known figure in the South Lakes. A bow-top caravan builder, charcoal burner, fell-pony breeder and honorary chairman of the Coppice Association (NW), he can often be found demonstrating hay or straw rope making at shows around … Continue reading →

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2011: Dates for the diary

Posted on February 24, 2011 by stevetomlin

As you’ll see if you visit the courses page of Scytherspace, Steve Tomlin and I are now taking bookings for a series of teaching courses this year, in south and east Cumbria. We’ll both be teaching some beginners’ mowing courses, … Continue reading →

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Cleaving oak for signs

Posted on February 23, 2011 by stevetomlin

Yesterday I was planting oaks on a farm just north of Kendal and today Charlie Whinney & I were working with mature oaks making some new signage for the Halecat garden nursery which opens soon. To give a strong, organic … Continue reading →

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Folding paper

Posted on February 23, 2011 by stevetomlin

Since November, I’ve been enjoying folding paper. Though predominantly a woodworker, I’m interested in all sorts of crafts and making with different materials so when I was choosing a name for this site I deliberately left it open to include … Continue reading →

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Hotel Sculpture Installed

Posted on February 21, 2011 by stevetomlin

While I’ve been working on the staircase former, Charlie Whinney has been in Washington installing the sculpture we steam bent back in October. When I first saw this photo I was amazed by how small the sculpture looks.  From filling … Continue reading →

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Not out of the woods yet

Posted on February 19, 2011 by stevetomlin

Perhaps my thoughts that we had saved our national forests were a bit premature. As Mark Allery points out, this was all a bit too easy and noone is quite sure what the minister means when she says she “got … Continue reading →

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Steambent Staircase Bannister

Posted on February 18, 2011 by stevetomlin

The next project I’m working on with Charlie Whinney is a steam bent oak staircase banister. Three 200mm wide strips will curl their way up the three flights of stairs replacing the existing boring straight pine version. The model shows … Continue reading →

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Forests saved

Posted on February 17, 2011 by stevetomlin

Today I feel very proud to have been a tiny part of the campaign to stop our government from selling off more of our national assets. We get used to feeling like national policies are out of our hands and … Continue reading →

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Garden Sculpture Installed

Posted on February 11, 2011 by stevetomlin

As planned, we went down to London early in the new year to install the ‘Spirit’ garden sculpture but I’ve only just got a photo to show here. This was my first installation and I was a little bit nervous; … Continue reading →

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Britain's cutest log cabin

Posted on February 10, 2011 by stevetomlin

I’m not sure I would have used the word ‘cute’ to describe it but nonetheless it’s very satisfying to see the log cabin I worked on in 2009 getting national coverage. Over the course of 4 months I worked as … Continue reading →

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