At the end of June, I had the pleasure of running another Green Woodworking workshop. This time we used the Vic Park Arts Centre as the venue. On a nice sunny day, it was great to be able to work out in the garden and on the verandah.
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| Front side of the info flyer for the June workshop. |
Calling it
"A Taste of Green Woodworking", the ten participants had a choice of either bowl carving or spoon carving. The wood we had to play with was Cape Lilac and Camphor Laurel.
Here are a few pics from the day:
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| That's me doing a demo on cleaving some Cape Lilac with froe and beetle. |
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| Another lovely spoon taking shape. |
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| Doing a demo on hollowing out the bowl shape with an adze. |
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| A Camphor Laurel Bowl in the making. |
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| The Shaving Horse is a joy to use! |
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| The small bowl carving adze is a beauty. |
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| A moment of contemplation... |
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| Working on the verandah. |
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| There were an assortment of hatchets and adzes to try out. |
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| Shaping the outside of a Camphor Laurel bowl with a hatchet. |
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| Using a Hook Knife to hollow the bowl of a spoon. |
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| It's a very relaxing pastime carving spoons together. |
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| While not every creation was completely finished, it was a great day working green wood together. |
Pre-industrial woodworking. What a hoot! So interesting - and such fun!
The next Green Woodworking Workshop will be a 2 day affair, on two consecutive Sundays in September. We will be making both a three-legged stool and a spoon over that time.
Here is the front side of the flyer:
