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Category Archives: SteveTomlinCrafts
Curach progress
We’ve had a couple more meetings together to work on the curach project which is coming along nicely. To bend the hazel couples into shape for the ribs we discussed the use of steam and bending formers. As the width … Continue reading
Posted in kayaks & boats, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged boat, building, curach, currach, curragh, irish
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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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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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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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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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