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Category Archives: SteveTomlinCrafts
6ft two man saw
I’ve just bought another two man crosscut saw, this one is 6ft long and looks like it has Champion teeth. I love the reason for selling: One rare vintage two man cross cut saw about 6foot long could be resharpened … Continue reading
New tool handles and sheaths
Eight months after the fire and I’m still getting my tool kit back together. It’s interesting to see which have been the first to be repaired and which have waited longer. Partly this is down to what I’ve been making … Continue reading
Posted in SteveTomlinCrafts, tools
Tagged carving axe, gransfors, green, leather, sheath, wood, work
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Transylvanian milking stool
A quick post to share a picture I found from the trip Christiane and I made to Gyimes in Transylvania this summer for a Haymaking Festival. One morning we got up early and walked up the hill to where our … Continue reading
Two new saws
Over the winter, when there’s not doing so much scything I’ve been organising the NW Scythe group (“The Gang” as Edward calls us) in coppicing some neglected hazel at Haybridge Nature Reserve. When you’re cutting in amongst the stems, a … Continue reading
Posted in SteveTomlinCrafts, tools
Tagged coppice, coppicing, haybridge nature reserve, hazel, pruning saw, silky, two man saw
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New cherry spoons
A few more new kitchenware designs and ladles photographed and online now. To order, please send an email or use my order form. Swedish eating spoon This is a special spoon for me anyway, you can read why here and my … Continue reading
Curach builders' meeting
This week I met with Ian & Edward to discuss our currach building project. I’ve been thinking about another boat project since I finished the recovery kayak and I was attracted to the curach as another lightweight skin-on-frame boat. The … Continue reading
Posted in kayaks & boats, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged boat, coppice, curach, currach, curragh, hazel, skin on frame
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Spoons, birds and baskets at Brantwood
I had a lot of fun at the weekend running my stall at Brantwood House. It was a beautiful weekend and something of a shame to spend it indoors but we were fortunately in a brilliant location in the Studio … Continue reading
Posted in greenwood events, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged brantwood, spoon carving, trug, winter fair
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Robin's fan bird
It’s a nice feeling anytime someone buys something I’ve made: the idea that the person likes my work enough to want to swap some of their own time, skills and labour (through the exchange medium of money) for some of … Continue reading
Damson Ladles
I seem to have been so engrossed in making fan birds lately that I haven’t done much spoon carving but there’s a few spoons that I carved during the summer that haven’t yet made it onto the web and I … Continue reading
Posted in spoon carving, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged branch, carving, cruck, damson, ladle, spoon, spooncarving
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