Description
An opportunity to learn or hone your green woodworking skills, using hand tools and a shave horse to build a sustainably sourced shave horse. Using green wood to create your own unique shave horse to take home. There's plenty of elements to it to keep you busy for the weekend. Using your skills you'll build your own shave horse, enabling you to pursue your green woodworking interest on your own turf. Along the way you'll learn about the properties of green wood and about relevant hand tools and how to use them safely and effectively. Tools used will include chisels, saws, auger and brace, draw knife, spoke shave, and others. Differing abilities will be catered for as much as possible.
What's included in the price?
Tools are provided for use throughout the course. Wood is also provided but if you have a piece of wood that you'd like to use, you're welcome to bring this and we'll work out how to incorporate it, if possible.
Duration
16 hours
Cancellation policy
Medium - Cancellation and a full refund can be obtained up to 4 weeks before the course starts
Maker
Coppice Collective is a Community Interest Company (CIC) based in Bradford West Yorkshire, passionate about bringing Community cohesion, personal development and positive mental health, and building healthy habitats. We do this through Woodcrafts, Restoring woodlands, Group work and Occupational therapy. After covering the running costs, proceeds from classes go toward supporting those with Mental health needs in areas high in deprivation.
Suitable for
- Adults
- Seniors
- Teenagers
- Parking provided
- Suitable for beginners
- Christmas
- Intermediate level
FAQs
8 hours with a prompt 9.30am start and 5.30pm finish and time for lunch and breaks
The course is run in grounds of The Lodge Café where there are toilets and a café available to use during it's opening hours.
The course can be suitable to most abilities and strengths. You will need to be able to sit astride a bench (shave horse), use your feet to operate the clamp, grip tools to work the tools and a basic level of strength to work the tools.
Lewis can accommodate for different ability levels and will work with you to ensure that you have a stool to take home at the end of the day.
We source our wood from Leeds Coppice workers who manage woodlands in Leeds using traditional coppicing techniques that maintain the woodlands in a gentle and sustainable way. Lewis will be happy to tell you more and what wood you are working with.
