Green Woodworking & Coppice Craft Workshops

Green Woodworking is the term used for working wood in it's green state, when it's freshly cut and still in the round and full of moisture. This makes it more forgiving to work with sharp edged tools.
Green woodworking goes way back to before there were sawmills and mechanised tools. Timber was worked in the woods removing the need to transport it as large logs for the milling process. Using various tools logs would be split into 'billets' and 'cleaved' into 'staves' and so on to make the components for a multitude of items and products. Lathes would be used to turn wood into bowls and cylinders for legs for furniture or anything which required a cylinder. Lathes have been around for thousands of years and have all had much the same components. We use pole lathes which are leg powered. Bowls can be carved or turned using simple but clever contraptions to hold them. In fact all the tools are simple and clever, though we do introduce contemporary tools into some of the work too.

Our Courses
Woodland Escape Green Woodworking Week
Stick Chair Making Day
2 Day Axe Workshop
Pole Lathe Learning Day 
Rustic Stool Making Day
Spoon Carving Day
Family Green Woodworking Day
Stick Chair Making Day

If you don't see a course here that you'd like please get in touch with your thoughts and we'll see what we can do contact us
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