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Tag Archives: greenwood
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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Milk Paint Recipe
I’m a big fan of painted woodenware and have been experimenting for a while now with different recipes of homemade paint. The egg based tempera I used on my spindleback chair was lovely but takes several weeks to dry properly … Continue reading
Posted in chair making, materials, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged chair, earth pigments, greenwood, homemade, milk paint, recipe, spindle back, traditional, windsor
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Mastering the skew chisel
Like lots of turners, whether on a pole-lathe or powered lathe, it’s the skew chisel that’s always caused me headaches. With a life of it’s own and seemingly no other intention than to mess up details at the last moment … Continue reading
Posted in SteveTomlinCrafts, tools
Tagged greenwood, pole lathe, skew chisel, turning
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Shrink Pots
As wood dries, it shrinks and often changes shape as a result. This is a major concern for most woodworkers and they go to great lengths to dry timber and keep it dry before starting work. With greenwood work I … Continue reading
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Tagged container, greenwood, kitchen, kitchenware, shrink pot, storage, UK, wooden
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Spooncarving Workshop
Spoonfest was a really exciting and inspiring weekend so I’ve been carving a few more spoons since coming home and trying out new ideas. One of the most interesting talks was by Terence McSweeney, a professional osteopath who gave a … Continue reading
Posted in greenwood courses, spoon carving, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged course, cumbria, greenwood, spoonfest, UK
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Keeping busy through the summer
June went by in a flash and I realised I hadn’t written anything here all month. It’s mowing season so a lot of my time at the moment is taken up with scythes – find out about it on Scytherspace, … Continue reading
Posted in chair making, SteveTomlinCrafts, wooden rakes
Tagged CANW, chisel, green wood, greenwood, hay rakes, hayrake, rake, rake making, sheath, wooden, wooden rakes
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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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Spooncarving course with Fritiof Runhall
Last week I spent 3 days in Edale as a student on a spooncarving course organised by Robin Wood and taught by Swedish carver Fritiof Runhall. I’ve been carving spoons from green wood for 8 years, so when I first … Continue reading
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Tagged course, fritiof runhall, greenwood, Robin Wood, spoon, spooncarving, sweden
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