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Author Archives: stevetomlin
Austrian timber
I’m just back from my week visiting Christiane in Austria. She lives in a small town in one of the national parks, a beautiful place ringed by majestic snow-capped mountains. As a woodworker, I’m always looking around me at trees … Continue reading
Kusudama Units
As well as being relaxing, folding the small units for origami kusudama is addictive and it’s taken no time at all to fold these 120 pieces for the ‘epcot ball’. There’s still 15 to do but plenty of time when … Continue reading
Willow cutting for Walter Lloyd
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
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
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
Folding paper
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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Tagged batch, david mitchell, electra, kusudama, origami, spooncarving
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Hotel Sculpture Installed
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
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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Tagged 38 degrees, Forest, rory stewart, sell-off
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Steambent Staircase Bannister
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
Forests saved
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