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Tag Archives: green woodwork
Fan bird carving course in Co Durham
A day carving and folding wood to make fan birds. Continue reading
Posted in fan birds, greenwood courses, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged 2017, carving, course, Durham, fan bird, green woodwork, workshop
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New spoon carving, big spoon carving
A spoony group and a special soupy spoon on a recent course. Continue reading
Posted in greenwood courses, spoon carving, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged 2016, course, green woodwork, learn, UK, workshop
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Ladderback chair heritage
I have received two interesting emails lately which add more detail about the background to the Castle Drogo and Jennie chairs. They tie in beautifully with discussions I’ve been having elsewhere on the web about crediting your craft references and … Continue reading
Posted in chair making, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged Alexander, black and white chair, Castle Drogo, chair, David Drew, dining, green woodwork, greenwood, handmade, ladderback, Langsner, shaker, UK
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Jennie Chair frame complete
I’ve just finished assembling the frame for the Jennie Alexander side chair. I altered the rungs slightly, to give this chair the same seat size as my other dining chairs and put in just 4 rungs with different postitions. I … Continue reading
Posted in chair making, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged Alexander, ash, chair, dining, green woodwork, greenwood, handmade, ladderback, Langsner, UK
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Jennie's legs
Back to post-and-rung ladderback chairs this week, steam bending the back legs for a new design of chair. The ash was lovely to shave down with the drawknife and bent very easily after about an hour in my steamer. Actually, … Continue reading
Posted in chair making, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged Alexander, ash, chair, green woodwork, greenwood, handmade, ladderback, Langsner, Mike Abbott, Philip Clisset, steam bending, UK
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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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A well used spoon
Nearly everything I make is designed to be used, whether it’s a chair, spoon, bowl or rake. I especially like it when someone meets me at a show and tells me how they’ve been using something they’ve bought from me. … Continue reading
Posted in spoon carving, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged birch, charlie whinney, green woodwork, spoon, spooncarving
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Back from the Bodgers Ball 2011
The Bodger’s Ball was a great weekend; plenty of interesting demos, folk to talk to and time for to relax with a beer. A wonderful setting too at Lower Brockhampton in Herefordshire. Too many things to write now so here’s … Continue reading
Posted in greenwood events, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged 2011, APT, bodgers ball, carving, crosscut saw, fan bird, green woodwork, hewing, rake making, wooden rakes
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