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In this class

Working  from our outdoor workshop at Hackney City Farm, with just three tools, you will make your own cooking spoon from a locally grown tree. This course covers axe skills and safe knife grips. Aimed at both complete beginners and those who’ve made spoons before and would like to develop their skills and designs.

You can follow this course up with our Bowl Carving course, or Bowl Turning with our sister school (London Green Wood Turning). Or if you want to begin with something simpler, start with our Make a Spatula course. If you really catch the bug you can join the Induction to the Workshop course and become and member of our cooperative.

Low income rates available on mid-week course dates, contact us for details.

We work outdoors in all weathers, please come prepared.

Spoon Carving Workshop

Paul Greenhalgh

This course is for people who've carved spoons from wood before, a few or many. Students and tutors will all bring our spoons along for show and tell, and you to develop your designs and technique. Whether you struggle making a crank in your spoons, want to improve your knife finish, practice your axe technique to make better spoon blanks, try making scoops and ladles, or just want to stop making spoons that all look the same, this course will help you get there.

This is a private course that can be booked for up to 4 people.

Everyone will work on individual projects, tailored to help each person with their spoon dilemmas. We'll talk spoons all day long and then some more. Then we'll end the day with a spoon club (collectively making spoons, a game of consequences with knives).

Tools and wood are provided, but if you have your own tools please bring them along too. We'll advise on buying tools and if you're thinking of buying your own you can try out a range of axes and crook knives at our workshop.

Improving your Spoon Carving- private course

This is a four day course, usually taught over a long weekend Thursday-Sunday outdoors at our Hackney City Farm workshop.

This is our most in-depth course and can be adapted to all levels of experience. The aim is for you to become safe and confident with an axe and a knife. This course is designed to give participants an introduction to green woodworking using unseasoned wood straight from the log and hand tools. Suitable for all including: complete beginners, those who have carpentry experience but are new to green woodwork, and those who have done a little green woodwork and would like to learn more. We will work with locally sourced indigenous hardwoods and make a series of practice projects to give you confidence with basic green woodworking tools and techniques.

This course is also an induction to the workshop for new members of our coop (annual membership fee £50-£150, not included in the course).

Included in the price of the course is your own Mora 120 knife to use and to keep.

Low income and unwaged discounts are available for this course, please contact us for details.

In this class

Through making a series of practice projects, such as spoons and spatulas, you will learn: the principles of green woodwork, safe and confident axe techniques, knife grips from the Swedish tradition of spoon carving, tool sharpening and tool maintenance.

By the end of the course we hope participants will feel confident to continue to make things in wood, either on their own or at our regular cooperative workshop sessions. So this course should be seen as the beginning of a wood affair.

Now you can

Look after and sharpen your own tools
Continue making in wood, either at home or at the London Green Wood workshop
Give handmade presents to your friends and family
Eat with your own handmade kitchenware

Induction to the London Green Wood Workshop

Beth Ingram

The class will start off with conditioning the flowers whilst chatting about the different ingredients we have for you to choose from. The teacher will demonstrate how to create a handtied bouquet using the spiralling technique and you will then create your very own handtied bouquet! You will then be shown you how to beautifully package your bouquet for you to take home and keep or give to someone as a gift.  Enjoy a glass of bubbly whilst you create! Why not treat yourself to a fun and inspiring afternoon learning a new skill?

Summer Bouquet Masterclass

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