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A few pictures from day #1 of the Tir Coed green woodworking course.

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Using the roundhouse and shave horses built by previous courses, the objective of this course is to build a series of pole lathes similar to the “viking” pattern.


See link below for more info on Tir Coed.

http://tircoed.org.uk/
 
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Five day green woodworking/pole lathe course finished yesterday.

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Four traditional lathes built and although there was not enough time to get anything like proficient it is easy to see how wood turning can become addictive.

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I think you're a lucky man scoring a course like that :)

There are a lot of traditional furniture pieces that are made from pole lathe worked timbers. Needs practice and skill to get symmetry right across the bits, but 'rustic' is still very sound :)

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