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Another successful program completed. Recently I'd had the privilege of facilitating another woodworking program at the Stirling Men's Shed, bringing together grandparents or parents and their grand kids or kids. The last one of these was conducted in 2013, where we made tables. This time we set out primarily to make chairs and stools. The nice change this time was this program also being open to women. The Stirling Men's Shed facilities are made available every second Saturday afternoon to the women's recreational woodworking group, "Women Working with Wood".    This opened up the possibility for the program to be both inter-generational and inter-gender! Unfortunately, I did not get many photos along the way - nor did I get pics of every pair or their completed projects, sadly. However, the few I did capture are shown amid the text below. Dermot and his Grandad Bert together made a stool to match some others they had at home. The Process. We started looki...

While picking up some nice WA Blackbutt timber recently from Derek Doak The Timber Bloke , I came away with a bonus - a big chunk of Camphor Laurel. Thanks, Derek! The two crotch sections about to be cut from the log. The crotch from the end of the log Derek would be able to use. The next crotch in was less useful to him to recover timber, as it was a bit complicated being a four way fork. I reckoned it would be worth seeing what I could recover from this big crotch, even if it was only spoon material! Big and VERY heavy - loaded by the forklift. Normally, for green woodworking, we want nice straight grained log sections. These are more likely to split evenly. This big piece of Camphor Laurel was anything but straight! It was going to be a gamble, and a bit of an adventure... I had to use levers to manoeuvre the stump off the back of the ute. THUMP!  Once off the back of the ute, the big chunk was sitting in my driveway. Totally unmovable, it was time to make it much smaller. ...