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Tag Archives: carving
Spooncarving Course in Scotland
I have been invited teach a spoon carving course in Dalbeattie on 25 & 26 May 2013. With my recent trip to Sweden I’m full of ideas and inspiration on spoon carving and really enjoying my own carving as well as the … Continue reading
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Tagged carving, course, green wood, Scotland, spoon, UK
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Spoon carving in Wales
I arrived back from Sweden last thursday and was straight off to the Woodland Skills Centre in North Wales to teach a spoon carving course for the weekend. They were a lovely bunch of folk and it’s always a pleasure … Continue reading
Posted in greenwood courses, spoon carving, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged beginner, carving, course, green wood, greenwoodwork course, left hand, spoon, UK, Wales, Woodland Skills Centre, workshop
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Carved spreaders
I’ve been making and selling wooden spreaders for 10 years. They’re lovely things to use in the kitchen and a perfect carving project for learning knife techniques for spooncarving. On my spooncarving courses we make a spreader together on the … Continue reading
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Tagged butter knife, carving, decoration, engraving, green wood, kolrosing, spreader
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Fan Bird video
With Christmas approaching I’ve been busy preparing fan birds which are popular as decorations and gifts this time of year. At shows during this summer, a few people have asked how they’re made and not completely believed that they’re just … Continue reading
Posted in fan birds, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged carving, christmas, course, decoration, fan bird, learn, making, video
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Fan Bird course
What a great weekend of courses, on Saturday I ran another of my Learn to Mow with a Scythe workshops on a glorious sunny day then on Sunday I was teaching a group how to carve fan birds. I’ve been … Continue reading
Posted in fan birds, greenwood courses, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged carving, course, fan bird, learn, UK, workshop
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Spooncarving at 'Weekend in the Woods' 2012
I had a brilliant weekend teaching spooncarving to students on the Coppice Association’s ‘Weekend in the Woods’. Six courses all taking place over the same weekend makes a fantastic atmosphere with lots of folk busily making and sharing ideas. When … Continue reading
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Tagged CANW, carving, coppice association, course, cumbria, learn, Weekend in the Woods, wooden spoon, workshop
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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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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
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Tagged branch, carving, cruck, damson, ladle, spoon, spooncarving
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