Log to Chair course

The course will be run over 6 days, during which you will learn how to turn a log into a chair using traditional green woodworking tools and techniques!  We will be making a 3 slat ladder back side chair with a woven seat.  You will be introduced to the following skills and green woodworking techniques:

• Wood selection
• Cleaving wood using wedges and/or a froe
• Removing unwanted wood using a side axe
• Shaving wood using a shaving horse and draw knife & spoke shave
• Steam bending & setting jigs
• Making tennons
• Drilling mortices with hand brace and bit
• Drying chair components
• Chair Assembly
• Weaving a seat (hemp rope, kamba, bark, there is an additional charge for seat materials)
  Sharpening tools.

There is also a pole lathe set up outside the workshop, where you will be able to grasp the basics of pole lathe turning, provided your chair is on course to completion!  There will be a maximum of 4 people attending the course.