Fire Breathing Dragons
I can’t remember where I first heard firesteels (Ferrocerium rods) described as ‘Dragon Sneezes’ but I always like the mental picture of baby dragons with colds surprising themselves with … Continue Reading →
Tag: Carving
15 Things To Make With Elder at Forest School
THE ELDER TREE I hold it needless to write any description of this, since every boy that plays with a pop-gun will not mistake another tree instead of elder: Culpepers … Continue Reading →
Make a Gypsy Flower Pony
This is a rudimentary jig that I made to ease the process of making Gypsy Flowers with a knife or shave … Continue Reading →
Mushrooms #2 – the minizine
Here is the follow up to last week’s stop motion mushroom carving film. It’s a book and its free to download (but it is very small and you have to … Continue Reading →
Make Room for the Mushrooms
I’ve been making these little wooden mushrooms for quite a while now and they are a really good project to introduce people to whittling.I finally got round to setting up … Continue Reading →
Course Review by natureworkshops.co.uk
Jane and Jennie from Nature Workshops drove all the way up from the far end of Cornwall in May to attend a course called ‘Whittling Thingamajigs and Whatsits’ in the … Continue Reading →
Whittling Hens and Roosters
On Monday, Tom B on the Forest Education Initiative facebook page asked for a bit of help with his growing stick and twig collection: Help! since becoming a FS practitioner … Continue Reading →
Kiwi Spoons bound for Oz
I was asked by a customer to make a couple of my kiwi spoons which are specially designed (by the kiwi marketing board of New Zealand) for the eating of … Continue Reading →
Vicky’s case of spoons
Vicky was a participant on a Forest School Training Course at the end of September and we discovered we shared a similar obsession for the shaping of green wood with … Continue Reading →
Spoon Carving Course 16th October
An Introduction to Spoon Carving. Sunday 16th October 10.00am to 4.00pm Learn how to safely use a minimum of hand tools to carve your own practical and beautiful kitchen utensils … Continue Reading →