Windsor chair-making at Greenwood Days, 7-days

Description

Come and enjoy a week (7-days) in the woodland workshop learning how to make your own chair with Peter Wood. Suitable for all levels of experience. You will take home the chair you’ve made! We are offering you the choice of five different chairs to make. Please choose from either, Continuous Windsor armchair Welsh/high backed style chair. Child’s chair Steam bent side chair Comb back side chair Each chair will take you through a range of different chairmaking skills. Each student will start by making their chair legs using green wood, you will cleave wood, axe and drawknife before either turning your legs on the pole lathe or finishing their shaping with a drawknife and spokeshave. Spindles will be shaped with a spokeshave and the backs of your chairs will be steam-bent or split and shaped from a fresh log. The heart of each chair is it’s beautifully sculpted seat. You will shape this using a variety of tools including adze, inshave, travisher and scrapers.

What's included in the price?

Copious amounts of tea, coffee and biscuits. A lovely lunch with fresh home-made bread, soup of the day followed by fresh fruit. All meals are vegetarian but do let us know if you have any other dietary requirements. The course fee includes all materials required to complete the projects and use of tools and specialist equipment associated with each course. Instruction will be given for the safe use of tools.  The minimum age for standard courses is 18.

Cancellation policy

Medium - Cancellation and a full refund can be obtained up to 4 weeks before the course starts

Maker

Greenwood Days

with Craft Courses since 2014

Message the tutor

Greenwood Days have been running woodland craft courses since 1998, from a beautiful 90 acre wood in the National Forest on the Leicestershire/Derbyshire border. We offer day, weekend, midweek and week-long courses ranging from traditional Windsor chair-making to contemporary willow sculpture, longbow making to spoon carving. Our tutors are all highly skilled professional craft workers who share our passion for preserving, promoting and passing on these crafts and techniques.