Green woodworking

Unlock the secrets of carving green wood for your woodworking projects! 🌿 Whether you're a beginner or seasoned woodworker, understanding the differences between green and dry wood carving is essential. Discover tips and techniques to make the most out of found wood in your creations. #WoodworkingTips #GreenWoodCarving #DIYProjects

How to Make a Froe - a Green Woodworking Tool: I have always loved working with wood. Green woodworking, as the name implies, is working with wood that has recently been cut down or has fallen down. I had a few oak trees get blown over and thought I would make a few things with them. You migh…

This live edge branch bowl is a quick and easy project that can also be a great introduction to green woodworking. Yoav Liberman shows you the steps.

You don't have to be an expert woodworker or own specialty tools to take on one of these 40 outdoor woodworking projects for beginners. Every one of the simple projects included here features step-by-step plans and tips for success.

How to Make a Froe - a Green Woodworking Tool: I have always loved working with wood. Green woodworking, as the name implies, is working with wood that has recently been cut down or has fallen down. I had a few oak trees get blown over and thought I would make a few things with them. You migh…

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Traditional Green Woodworking workshop

A complete guide to mastering the versatile (and sustainable) art of green wood turning: learn foundational techniques while building your skills on 10 step-by-step projects, including shelf sitters, vases, and live-edge bowls Rich in moisture and character, green wood is an ideal material for woodturning—but newcomers to the craft may need a helping hand to get started. With this all-encompassing guide by longtime woodworker, author, and instructor Christian Zeppetzauer, you’ll learn…

Portable Shaving Horse Bring your shop to the woods. In the modern workshop, the tablesaw is the central tool. A few centuries ago, for coopers (barrel makers), bodgers (chairmakers), and carpenters, the shaving horse was indispensable. Woodworkers use them for, among other things, making chair parts with a drawknife and spokeshave. Often these craftspeople brought...

David Fisher puts together a collection of his favorite gouges, suggesting which sizes are most useful and explaining what each is best used for.

This Old Man is a True Genius

For beginners, this can be a little overwhelming. You can narrow down your selection with the following sweeping statements. Don’t use softwoods (e.g. pines and spruces), don’t use ring porous species (e.g. oaks and ashes). Of course, you can carve a spoon from any wood but diffuse-porous wood tends

Learn the secrets to drying green wood without a kiln for your carving projects. Our blog post reveals natural methods and tips to prepare your wood, ensuring it's ready for crafting without cracks. Perfect for woodworkers of all levels. #WoodDrying #GreenWood #WoodCarvingTips #NoKilnNeeded

If you want to get started in woodworking on the lowest possible budget, I recommend what's called “green woodworking” or sometimes “greenwoodworking”. I've talked a little about this already, in this entry about the chairmaking class I took at Country Workshops last summer, and this entry about gathering some ash for my next chair. One thing you will find handy if you want to start carving spoons and/or bowls from green wood is a chopping block, so you'll have a stable surface for shaping…

There’s a branch of the woodworking family tree that begins, well, with a tree. Log sections are split and shaped into rough blanks while the wood still contains a good amount of moisture. Working “green wood” with hand tools is easier than hard, dried wood. Green woodworkers shape the parts into chairs, stools, spoons, bowls, and more. Working with parts that aren’t flat, straight, and square requires a different mindset and employs some tools you may not be familiar with. One of those is a…

Green woodworking courses in Scotland

Meet Fritiof Runhall one of Sweden’s best spooncarvers. Sweden is known amongst green woodworkers for spooncarving largely through the writing of Wille Sundqvist and teaching of his son Jogge. There are very few professional spooncarvers though and Fritiof is one of the best. Here is some of his work. salad servers The top eating spoon is made from spruce and…

Unlike in the BBC Countryfile Magazine office where the day starts with a scramble of emails, phonecalls and meetings, I don’t immediately dive intothe hard graft of bodging on a bitter December day deep in the National Forest. Here on the border of Leicestershire and Derbyshire, a blackened kettle steams over a welcome open fire and tea is the civilised order of the day. Of all the lessons I learn over the next six hours, taking my time, breathing slowly and keeping my body relaxed are the…

I attended Spoontown which is the largest Spoon Carving gathering in the South of EnglandSpoontown Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/spoontown...

Learn green woodworking practices to create eco-friendly and sustainable projects. Reduce waste and make a positive impact – read the full guide now! #GreenWoodworking #SustainableDIY #EcoFriendlyProjects #WoodworkingTips #Sustainabilit