A few photos from a Basic Woodwork course back in July and a few new ideas we've been playing with at Inverquiech.
It's always brilliant helping beginners to make something from scratch they can take home. We've been using more greenwood, hazel, willow, sycamore and oak, it's fun exploring ways of jointing it and combining it with plywood and other machined wood.
A big part of my sustainable living philosophy is thinking up ways to produce the things we need with what's growing or lying unused locally. Learning the skills for that makes us more resilient - and it's fun too :-)
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| A brilliant wee spice rack from machined wood |
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| Sometimes a tree will have a natural tripod structure - which makes for great stability |
This stool is a great practice piece a few people have made on courses - the legs are fitted into holes that go right through the top and are fixed in tight with wedges
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| Dreaming up ways for supporting large bits of tree that look in keeping with the whole thing - one idea we have is for making Trees for All Seasons... more about that soon... |
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| That's all for now folks... |
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