But life has been a bit hectic around my house because of a woodworking-related accident. Life has a way of throwing me curveballs. I talked of the sudden need to remove two large pear trees from my yard in my last post.

A blog of my green woodwork carvings and photographs. Sunday, 12 April 2015. A couple of weeks ago I had a lady and now friend come on one of my spoon carving courses wanting to refine her spoon carving skills. There were a couple of things she wanted to look at, one was to achieve a thinner neck and the other was to add a natural curve and flow from a flat piece of timber rather than a crook. This makes them more focused and the course can be tailored around their needs.

I make a few spoons now and then, but I also try many different projects, from knitting to carving, and everything in between. This is my journey, if you can even call it that. Thoughts, ideas, failures and successes for all to see. Friday, June 12, 2015. She keeps her eye rolls to a minimum and at least feigns interest when I start rambling on and on about the merits of brown sugar over plain old white sugar. how about we talk about Ribs today, shall we? I wrapped them at the 2.

Green Woodworking using hand tools and freshly felled timber. Tuesday, 13 August 2013. Tuesday, 23 July 2013. A very nice little event. Many rural craft skills being demonstrated plus, obviously, barges. Thursday, 13 June 2013. Come on - give them a break or WE are going to bee in big trouble.

The Grass is Ris! I wonder where my English blade is? May 28, 2015 by woodlandantics. The Grass is Ris! And the mowing season is suddenly upon us. When I am not attacking the bracken on the commons I am working around the edges of the meadows to control the invading bracken, nettles and thistles. Hard work but very satisfying in the spring sunshine. On their own the blades can look quite reasonable but when you put a bunch together on a flat metal surface things can.

A nice email and a couple of queries. Thanks for the idea! .

Like many turners, I have previously used a recess in the bottom of the bowl to hold the wood in the chuck to hollow the inside. More recently, I have been using a tenon on the bottom, and then removing it afterward to leave a flat bottom. I think it looks pretty good.

Time lapse of the first few days of the Saxon hall build. Tuesday, 30 June 2015. Weald and Downland Woodfair and a Saxon Hall. Summer solstice weekend saw me at the Weald and Downland Museum in Sussex. There was a fantastic horsedrawn timber forwarder which has been made for the museum recently. I used my small for.