This week we had a “developers” carving course. Thanks to a great bunch of folk we had a fun time and carved some lovely work. My daughter Jojo has just done her basic food hygiene training so she can work in the village cafe so she was in charge of catering for the first time. Phil and Peter having…
I have just finished a very enjoyable 3 day bowl carving course. These 8 bowls were carved by 4 course participants. This was only the second bowl course I have run, the first was a great success with students making 2 bowls each and a fantastic standard of work. I was unsure though whether we were just lucky with a…
Would you like to see some beautiful wooden bowls? These are not my work but carved by students on a most enjoyable course this week. Having been offering spoon carving courses for some years now it was a natural progression to offer a bowl carving course but I was not quite happy with any of the techniques or particularly…
We have just uploaded course dates for next year and for the first time are running bowl carving courses. This will be Swedish style bowlcarving so we will be using axes and adzes carving green wood bowls like these.We will also be doing one course on shrink pots which should be fun. The courses last year were very popular and…
Having been running spoon carving courses for several years now this is the first where we managed three days without a single cut. Carving with knives is perfectly safe if you are careful and learn a specific set of safe efficient cuts. This weekend we ran a developers spooncarving course for folk who had some experience or had been on…
Last week we had a very enjoyable developers spooncarving course which turned into more of a kuksa carving course. After the first 2 days covering the basics of spoon design and carving spoons from crooks or bent pieces of wood to get a strong but light spoon I always offer a range of projects for the last day. Everyone chose…
I have just been reviewing course bookings for the year and am delighted to see that our developers courses are filling up rapidly with folk wanting to come back after doing a foundation course last year. Our June developers course has only 1 place left and October is already half full. I have always said I would like to judge…
We had a most enjoyable weekend. Our spooncarving group were just a great fun bunch of people and we all had a fun time. We all went through the various processes of learning to use an axe and knife safely but efficiently and then how to get the best designs out of various bits of wood. Nicola cooks home made…
Tomorrow is the first day of our first spooncarving course of the year. We are fully booked again which is nice and I am looking forward to meeting 8 new folks and sharing time carving together. Yesterday I sharpened 8 knives, 8 axes and 8 hook knives. I spent today collecting wood, first a trip to meet with a past…
As someone who plans few things more than a week or two away it takes quite an effort to sort our course dates out months in advance. We have been very pleased then to already have a good number of bookings even for courses into June and October and only have one place left on our February course. This does…
