Log to Chair course

The course will be run over 6 days, during which you will learn how to turn a log into a chair using traditional green woodworking tools and techniques!  We will be making a framed chair with either a ladder back or spindles, and a woven seat.  You will be introduced to the following skills and green woodworking techniques:

• Wood selection
• Cleaving wood using wedges and/or a froe
• Removing unwanted wood using a side axe
• Shaving wood using a shaving horse and draw knife & spoke shave
• Steam bending & setting jigs
• Making tennons
• Drilling mortices with hand brace and bit
• Drying chair components
• Chair Assembly
• Weaving a seat (hemp rope, kamba, bark, there is an additional charge for seat materials)
  Sharpening tools.

There is also a pole lathe set up outside the workshop, where you will be able to grasp the basics of pole lathe turning, provided your chair is on course to completion!

Next course:

• 11 - 16 JUNE 2016

• 1 - 6 JULY 2016

£395 plus the cost of seating material (£20-£50)