Author: Michael Stibane
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781508593317
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
In this book you will learn how to set up your own greenwood workshop. After a short introduction of the craft and some wood species you will read which tools you need, where you can get them and you will learn from step by step instructions with annotated pictures and sketches how to make and build your own machines and devices. Included are instructions for shavehorse, bowl horse, workbench and pole lathe among other useful things. For each device you'll also find a little project inside. It is the compiled knowledge of three years of trial and error while setting up the authors workshop.
Living Wood
Author: Mike Abbott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780954234560
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First published in 2002, Living Wood is both a practical manual and an inspirational guide, updating much of the information included in Mike's best-selling book Green Woodwork. Living Wood covers: • Becoming a green woodworke--Mike's story, from playing in the woodlands to owning a share in a woodland in Herefordshire • Buying, managing, and harvesting a woodland; • Developing woodland facilities, including tracks, steps, huts, a barn, a kitchen, and a compost toilet • Setting up a woodland workshop--plans for a shelter and updated designs for a shaving horse, a pole lathe, and other green wood-working tools and devices • Making ladder-back chairs, including cleaving, steam-bending, and techniques for ultra-tight joints without glue • Seating chairs with bark and with cord • A comprehensive list of suppliers, woodland organizations, and books Now in its fourth edition, Living Wood includes a selection of photographs of Mike’s latest workshop at Brookhouse Wood.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780954234560
Category : House & Home
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
First published in 2002, Living Wood is both a practical manual and an inspirational guide, updating much of the information included in Mike's best-selling book Green Woodwork. Living Wood covers: • Becoming a green woodworke--Mike's story, from playing in the woodlands to owning a share in a woodland in Herefordshire • Buying, managing, and harvesting a woodland; • Developing woodland facilities, including tracks, steps, huts, a barn, a kitchen, and a compost toilet • Setting up a woodland workshop--plans for a shelter and updated designs for a shaving horse, a pole lathe, and other green wood-working tools and devices • Making ladder-back chairs, including cleaving, steam-bending, and techniques for ultra-tight joints without glue • Seating chairs with bark and with cord • A comprehensive list of suppliers, woodland organizations, and books Now in its fourth edition, Living Wood includes a selection of photographs of Mike’s latest workshop at Brookhouse Wood.
Green Wood Chairs
Author: Alison Ospina
Publisher: Stobart Davies Limited
ISBN: 9780854421510
Category : Chairs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
RURAL CRAFTS. Alison Ospina worked previously as a Furniture Maker and Woodwork Teacher. She formed Green Wood Chairs 10 years ago and since then has been designing and creating chairs of all shapes and sizes for a variety of customers and homes. Alison also teaches chair-making courses at her workshop in Skibbereen Co.Cork.
Publisher: Stobart Davies Limited
ISBN: 9780854421510
Category : Chairs
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
RURAL CRAFTS. Alison Ospina worked previously as a Furniture Maker and Woodwork Teacher. She formed Green Wood Chairs 10 years ago and since then has been designing and creating chairs of all shapes and sizes for a variety of customers and homes. Alison also teaches chair-making courses at her workshop in Skibbereen Co.Cork.
Greenwood Crafts
Author: Edward Mills
Publisher: Crowood
ISBN: 1847977251
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Britain has a long and rich tradition of woodcrafts and what, since about the 1970s, have been called the 'greenwood crafts'. Greenwood crafts focus on using wood that contains sap and that is easy to work with simple hand tools to produce beautiful and useful products.Discusses all you need to know to get started, including tools, workshops, sourcing wood, making some of your own devices and the characteristics of the various woods. Covers a wide variety of turned and carved items for the house and garden, including kitchen treen and sports equipment. Examines a wide range of greenwood chairs, describes how they are made and highlights the talent and creativity of a number of expert craftspeople in the field. Examines a number of basket-making techniques involving a range of raw materials, form willow to oak via hazel and other hedgerow plants. Considers a range of items for the garden and for agricultural use such as rustic furniture, wood store, shakes, shelters, fences and basic timber framing. Explores the future of greenwood working, takes a look at some of the new ideas emerging from the sector and includes handy hints on running a greenwood business. Few books have been published on the greenwood crafts and this present volume will be welcomed by all those with an interest in country crafts, trees, woodland, woodworking and all matters rural. Superbly illustrated with 380 colour photographs and clear step-by step instructions.
Publisher: Crowood
ISBN: 1847977251
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Britain has a long and rich tradition of woodcrafts and what, since about the 1970s, have been called the 'greenwood crafts'. Greenwood crafts focus on using wood that contains sap and that is easy to work with simple hand tools to produce beautiful and useful products.Discusses all you need to know to get started, including tools, workshops, sourcing wood, making some of your own devices and the characteristics of the various woods. Covers a wide variety of turned and carved items for the house and garden, including kitchen treen and sports equipment. Examines a wide range of greenwood chairs, describes how they are made and highlights the talent and creativity of a number of expert craftspeople in the field. Examines a number of basket-making techniques involving a range of raw materials, form willow to oak via hazel and other hedgerow plants. Considers a range of items for the garden and for agricultural use such as rustic furniture, wood store, shakes, shelters, fences and basic timber framing. Explores the future of greenwood working, takes a look at some of the new ideas emerging from the sector and includes handy hints on running a greenwood business. Few books have been published on the greenwood crafts and this present volume will be welcomed by all those with an interest in country crafts, trees, woodland, woodworking and all matters rural. Superbly illustrated with 380 colour photographs and clear step-by step instructions.
Green Woodwork
Author: Mike Abbott
Publisher: GMC Publications
ISBN:
Category : Lumber
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Green woodwork is creative and inexpensive to learn. The beauty of working green (or unseasoned) wood is that by using traditional skills and a few simple tools you can make anything from a tent peg to a Windsor chair, without needing power machinary.
Publisher: GMC Publications
ISBN:
Category : Lumber
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Green woodwork is creative and inexpensive to learn. The beauty of working green (or unseasoned) wood is that by using traditional skills and a few simple tools you can make anything from a tent peg to a Windsor chair, without needing power machinary.