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Rustic chair

We recently visited Woodfest Wales. It was more Forestry than Woodcraft but still had lots of stalls selling handmade furniture as well as a huge 2nd hand tool area (I had to keep my wallet firmly in my pocket whilst there!). It was family friendly and had lots of interesting things going on so we had a lovely [...]

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A larch seesaw

Here’s a quick pictorial how-to for making a rudimentary seesaw that we then put into our woodland to help keep the kids entertained. I started with two bits of larch taken from the woodpile, this viagra cheap cross piece: and this base:

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Alaskan Chainsaw Mill

After a lengthy period of consideration I finally went ahead and invested in an Alaskan chainsaw mill to use to add value (or in Permaculture parlance, obtain the maximum yield) to the small amount of timber we’ll be getting when trying to bring our derelict coppice viagra kaufen back to life; bringing in more light [...]

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Making a peening bench

My scythe needs some TLC due to the massive ding I managed to put viagra vendita in the blade when clearing out some brambles late last year and hitting a privet hedge’s stump. Ouch. I was already aware that using a combination of a file to remove the ding and a technique called peening I’d [...]

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Round Wood Timber Framing with Ben Law

Mention the name Ben Law to most people and they’ll say “Who?”. However if you follow that up by describing a certain episode of Grand Designs where a woodsman, permaculturist & author who, whilst living in a caravan in the woods, built his own home from timber sourced from his wood and there’s a good [...]

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Green Woodworking with Mike Abbott

Ever since I started my beginner’s cabinet making course I’ve been intrgiued by the differences between modern woodworking techniques and the the more traditional methods such as Green Woodworking (like chair bodging). Why use green wood? Well Mike Abbott who is, as you’ll read, the guy that ended up teaching me explains in his article [...]

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