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Apr 2, 20221 min read

Meet the Teacher - Jack Ritson - gatemaking

We would like to welcome Jack Ritson to our team of tutors this year. Jack will be teaching two four-day cleft oak gate making courses in...

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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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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 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 4, 20191 min read

Cleft oak gate

It would probably have been a lot simpler to go and buy a gate but we had a lot of fun making this one with cleft green oak. Hopefully...

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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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