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Working with green wood is a tradition that goes back hundreds of years. This book is filled with techniques and tips that used to be commonly known
Our mission
We inspire people to experience the old skills. We work in nature and with nature so that people reconnect with their surroundings, with the trees. We try to increase people’s ‘forest awareness’. We open up working with green wood to everyone, from children to pensioners, from experienced DIYers to clumsy people. We make people enjoy their own possibilities and creativity.
Working with green wood is a traditional craft: from harvesting a tree to oiling your chair or spoon, there is no machine or electrical plug in sight
Green wood as a craft, or green woodworking, is a combination of several crafts that all use freshly harvested logs as a raw material. In the UK, this craft has been growing in popularity since the 1990s. Knowledge and experience have been passed down from older generations. In the UK, there is more interest in maintaining knowledge and experience; it is more appreciated. Green woodworking is still done on a professional basis. Mike Abbott, Ray Tabor and Ben Law are one of the leading men in this field.
In England, the following crafts are included in the green woodworking movement: making chairs, tools (handles), clogs, fences, charcoal, baskets and timber-frame structures. Apart from this UK tradition, we also follow the Scandinavian spoon-carving tradition.
Learn all about the properties of green wood, their uses and techniques for working with green wood
Green wood, background information
What makes wood so unique? To find out, we have to take a good look at a tree. A tree is a strong construction. Just look at that big tree outside your window. So many heavy branches with leaves attached to one single trunk. The trunk has to carry the weight of the branches and leaves, and keep it all balanced. It has to be strong enough to withstand a heavy storm. When we look at the tree, it seems to be connected to the earth at a relatively narrow point.
Trees, wood and their use
Certain types of wood have specific uses, following tradition or experience. In this chapter you will find characteristics for each type of tree and wood. Herbert L. Edlin’s book Know Your Broadleaves provides a lot of information on many tree species. If you need a more precise identification, you can use determination guides.
Greenwood techniques
• Cleaving • using an axe • Sawing discs • mortise and tenon joints for a chair or stool with rungs • different techniques • making a tenon on a leg • wedging a joint • Drying legs, rungs and tenons • making your piece level • wood-carving knife grips • grips for the spoon knife.
Information on craft tools and how to maintain and sharpen them
Including Axes, Drills, Saws, Hammer/club and mallet, Chopping block, Wood-carving knife, Clamping tools and Measuring tools.
Tools: Wooden Hammer
The wooden hammer/club is essential in greenwood craft. It is used especially to hit the froe or wedges. With a wooden hammer you will not damage your froe, and no metal splinters will fly around. This makes the work safer, and your froe and wedges will last a lot longer. Wooden hammers take a lot of beating and therefore have a short life expectancy, so you will have to make a new one every now and then. And that is not at all a bad thing.
Objects: Stool
A stool is one of the simplest pieces of furniture to make. Stools have been around for millennia; keeping humans away from the cold, damp floor, without having to sit cross-legged or crouch. And they are multifunctional: you can use the stool as a table too, even for modern things like laptops. Making something to sit on can seem daunting at first, but a stool is an easy project to start with.
Diving Deeper: A Chair
You may be sitting on one right now. Chairs are often taken for granted. But if you take a good look at one, it usually is a fine piece of craftsmanship, especially if it is made of wood. In this chapter, we show you how much fun it is to make your own chair. A comfortable chair that can last a century.
Carving Projects: Spactula
The spatula is a great and simple object. A tool to help you stir onions and flip pancakes. You can make one in an hour. A spatula is, in fact, just a thin paddle with a flat handle. A round handle is for wooden spoons, but a flat handle will not turn in your hand, which is good when you are flipping pancakes. Maple is ideal because it does not absorb smells or give off a scent; birch is good too. Oak and other woods that contain tannic acid will affect the taste of the food. Wood with big pores (like oak) absorbs too much moisture and food, which can be unhygienic.
Our motto is: ‘Your first piece will not be perfect, but your thousandth will be!’ Nevertheless, good luck with your first
The day will start differently when you eat your breakfast with a homemade spoon, from a homemade bowl while sitting on a chair you made from a log of green wood. In the best scenario you yourself have felled the tree where these items all came from. It is possible and actually very easy.
Publisher : Search Press; Illustrated edition (August 13, 2019)
Language : English
Hardcover : 176 pages
ISBN-10 : 1782217363
ISBN-13 : 978-1782217367
Item Weight : 1.64 pounds
Dimensions : 7.81 x 0.69 x 10.19 inches
