A chip off the block
Designs are emerging from these Maltese limestone blocks as our students are chipping away in the sunshine with @andrewworthingtonart...
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Aug 25, 20191 min read
A fine assembly of chairs & stools
The legs, stretchers, seats, spindles and combs were assembled to create five regal chairs and four elegant stools. #greenwood...
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Aug 24, 20191 min read
The processes of chairmaking
Over the five days of our Windsor chairmaking course, our chairmakers shaped freshly felled ash using froes, axes, draw knives,...
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Jun 13, 20191 min read
Day 4 - Timber framing course
Today the team made the first end panel of the building which involved many more complicated angles to fit the king post, braces and...
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Jun 12, 20191 min read
Day 3 - Timber framing course
Day 3 - Timber framing course. The second side of the frame was built today at a much quicker pace than the first side. It’s all looking...
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Jun 11, 20191 min read
Day 2 - Timber framing course
Today was all about laying up and marking of the side frames. Each mortice joint was cut with a chain morticer and the tenons with...
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Jun 11, 20191 min read
Day 1 - Timber framing course
Building from the sills upwards, today was learning about cutting mortice and tenon joints for the base of the building. #timberframe...
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May 13, 20191 min read
First class bodger!!
Congratulations to Ben Willis who will be running our greenwood chair making course. Both his chair and his stool won first prize at the...
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Apr 11, 20191 min read
Meet the teacher - Greenwood chair making
Ben Willis - www.benwillis-woodcraft.co.uk Ben learnt chair making while working as an assistant to the green-woodworking legend Mike...
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Apr 11, 20191 min read
Meet the teachers - Timber frame building
The first of our summer courses will be timber frame building (click here for course details), run by three members of the Farey family....
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Mar 1, 20191 min read
Handmade for Wernog Wood
We have just received this beautiful mosaic from our very clever and thoughtful friend Tess. One day we hope she will teach here....
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Jan 30, 20192 min read
Why I was so inspired by making greenwood chairs
Ben Willis will be teaching our two Windsor chair making courses here in Wernog Wood this summer - Click here to make your own chair...
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