Opportunities to play with wood!
The October / November 2015 public Workshops have been arranged! Here is some info about the first few: Tuesday 20th October Carve a Wooden Spoon from seasoned wood. Using seasoned wood, usually rescued from the waste stream, we will transform these pieces of wood into beautiful functional and/or decorative spoons. We will use mallets and gouges, scrapers and saws, then spokeshaves and rasps in this wonderfully creative process. By the end of the three hour workshop, we aim to each have a completed and oiled spoon. It's a heap of fun, it's tactile and sensual. What a delight! Make a Spoon Carving Scraper from an old saw blade. Curved scrapers are just the thing for cleaning out the bowls of spoons after we have carved the shape with a gouge and mallet. The steel in the sawplate of old saws is beaut for making your own scrapers - so long as the sawplate is not too pitted with rust. We make them with different radii, and straight sides. The straight sides mean the scrapers can ...