Green Woodwork Spoon Carving

Description

Touchwood Glasgow is pleased to offer a fully immersive visiting, mobile, travelling green wood carving workshop to community groups, organisations, and businesses throughout Central Scotland. This is a full-day travelling workshop designed specifically for groups of up to 10 people, where we bring everything to you - our tools and equipment, materials, expert knowledge, and our positive creative energy. The visiting workshop is especially suited to communities and businesses who would benefit from a truly hands-on heritage craft experience. Our workshops foster team-building, therapy through craft, connection to trees and natural resources, dexterity and skill development, and sustainability practices for a sustainable future. Our travelling workshop is only bookable provided that your group, organisation, or business can accommodate the workshop - a suitable space to run the event is essential. A suitable space might be a large outdoor communal area, a barn, a community hall, a large utility room, etc, have access to toilet facilities, and ideally provide shelter from the elements. Any booking made would need to meet these basic criteria before we would accept the request. Our workshops can be tailored to your individual needs on request, and we are happy to offer our workshop events to corporate groups in liaison with their appointed wellbeing officer. This is a very nature-based heritage craft using traditional hand tools and equipment. We aim to connect participants to nature and to each other in a practical way through carving together as group using materials from our local bio-region.

What's included in the price?

So what’s on offer for the price? Up to a maximum of 10 participants led by 2 friendly tutors - 2 experienced expert tutors will guide the group through the whole process. Beginning with a blank piece of locally & sustainably sourced tree, you will be guided through these 10 basic steps as follows: • Selecting a suitable wood-blank for spoon carving - wood types and their qualities  • Introduction to the tools and how to use them safely - hewing axe, carving knife, hook-knife, draw-knife, and the shave-horse. • Splitting/creating a spoon billet using an axe • Axe-work - effective strategic waste wood removal • Marking out and carving wood using a variety of specialist/traditional knife-hold techniques  • Finishing the spoon - final touches  • Preserving your wooden spoon  • Advice on tool maintenance & sharpening • Advice on what tools to buy, and where to buy them  • Some tools may also be available for purchase on the day Each participant will take away with them a unique hand carved spoon, but more importantly, you’ll take with you the basic knowledge to carve wood safely and creatively in your own time. Tea/coffee & snacks will be provided throughout the day. 

Cancellation policy

Easy - Cancellation and a full refund can be obtained up to 2 weeks before the course starts

Maker

Touchwood Glasgow

with Craft Courses since 2022

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