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residential
weekend course (camping)
making rustic furniture |
Learn how to make unique, beautiful, natural items of furniture, crafted by your own hands and straight from the woodland. On this course you will discover how to read trees, learn about their different characteristics and uses, how to get the best from your tools, working with the grain and elegant ways to join wood. Whether a chair for your home or a bench for the garden, every finished work is as unique as the tree it came from.
During the weekend, you will be working on a couple of medium-sized projects, such as outdoor seating. You will learn:
- basic green woodworking skills
- how to use your green woodworking tools safely and effectively (all tools provided)
- where to buy your own tools and what to look for
- which types of wood are good for which purposes
- round mortice and tenon jointing
- how to construct various pieces of rustic furniture
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It is best to arrive on Friday night to set up tents, get comfortable and be able to have a relaxed start in the morning. If there is no way for you to get here Friday night, come as early as you can Saturday morning. The course starts after breakfast on Saturday morning - 9.30. Note, food will not be provided on Friday night; hot drinks on arrival |
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The course will finish around 4pm on Sunday afternoon to allow time to travel home. You can of course leave earlier if you have to. |
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normal camping gear: waterproofs, warm layers, boots, gloves etc; tent; sleeping bag & mat; knife, fork, spoon, plate, bowl, mug; wate bottle; torch with spare batteries; whistle; wash kit & towel; personal toiletries & medication; notebook & pen; small day sac; strong work gloves; one good story or joke for the campfire.
Meals are provided except Friday evening
NO DOGS ALLOWED ON SITE, as it is a SSSI, with ground-nesting birds, badgers, deer & sheep.
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accommodation: |
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camping - contact us if you'd like to hire a tent |
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£130 skint; £150 comfortable; £190 affluent
Refundable up to two weeks prior to course (minus £30
admin fee)
No refunds for cancellations within two weeks of course
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using a side-axe to pare down a piece of wood before shaping it using a shave horse and draw-knife
course tutor Adrian (left) sitting at a home-made breakfast trestle table and benches made from local ash, chestnut and hazel and finished with tung (a type of nut) oil
using a froe to split / cleave wood along its grain to produce smaller-dimension lengths for chair legs
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