Make a Shave Horse Course ~ 3 - 4 October 2020 | |
 Will, Nick, Rebecca, Neil and Chris at the end of the course with their completed shave horses. | |
 Turning frame components on the pole lathes. | |
 Cleaving an Ash log in the cleaving brake with a fro. The cloven log forms the sides of the frame. | |
 The cloven Ash log forming the frame with turned components being fitted. | |
 Legs fitted to two of the bodies. |  Using one of the finished shave horses. |
Introduction to Green Woodwork Course ~ 2 October 2020 | |
 Richard , Chris, Davina and Michael at the end of the course with their products. | |
Chair-making Course ~ 19 - 24 September 2020 | |
 Course participants Gill, Catherine and Mark with their finished chairs. | |
 View along the workshop shelter. |  Fixing rockers to one of the chairs. |
 Chair frames completed and ready for weaving the seating. | |
Make a Shave Horse Course ~ 6 - 7 September 2020 | |
 Mark, Martin, Helen, Alison, Leaf and Seth at the end of the course with their completed shave horses. | |
 Natural light filtering through the workshop. |  Drilling a mortice for a shave horse leg. |
Introduction to Green Woodwork Course ~ 5 September 2020 | |
 Leaf, Seth, Rachel, Alison, Tanya, and Chris at the end of the course with their products. | |
 Tanya working with a draw-knife. |  Chris working on his mallet. |
 Leaf and Seth working on their spatulas. |  Alison and Rachel working on the pole lathes. |
Introduction to Green Woodwork Course ~ 25 August 2020 | |
 Juliet, Peter, Carole, Asa and Charissa at the end of the course with their mallets, rolling pins and spatulas. | |
Make a Shave Horse Course ~ 22 - 23 August 2020 | |
 Alison, William, Ian, Ashley, Rob and Paul at the end of the course with their completed shave horses. | |
 Shaping the leg tenons with a draw-knife. |  Drilling mortices for the legs. |
 Turning frame components on the pole lathes. |  Assembling a frame. |
 Lunch is ready; Jane supervising. | |
 Turning frame components on the pole lathes. | |
Stool-making Course ~ 16 - 18 August 2020 | |
 Richard and Tricia at the end of the course with their completed stools. | |
 Completing the frame assembly. |  Applying the Elm bark seating. |
 Assembling the frame components. |  One side assembled. |
 Elm bark strips ready to use as seating. | |
 Removing the outer bark from an Elm log. |  Cutting strips of inner bark for the seating. |
Kuksa Carving Course ~ 13 - 14 August 2020 | |
 Annie, Jill, Greteli, and Dick at the end of the course with their kuksas. | |
 Annie, Jill, Greteli, and Dick's kuksas at the end of the course. | |
 Bowl carving almost complete. |  Carving the handle. |
 Carving the bowl interior. |  Time for some lunch! |
 Andy demonstrating the bowl carving process. | |
 Working on the shave horses with draw-knives. | |
 Trimming the block to form the handle. |  Handle and bowl sections ready for carving. |
 Trimming a cleaved section. |  Squaring up the cleaved section |
 Cleaving the Alder log to give sections for the kuksas. | |
 Sawing an Alder log to length with a two-person cross-cut saw. | |
Summer 2020 | |
 A new dining shelter, giving additional light and airy dining capacity during the COVID-19 restrictions and beyond. | |
 Assembling the shelter |  Lashing the poles together. |
 Clearing an area to provide a new dining shelter for course participants during the COVID-19 restrictions. | |
 Well, someone has to look after the fire! |  Preparing Ash poles for the dining shelter. |
 Ash poles for the dining shelter. A good example of social-distancing in the workplace? | |
Artists' Charcoal making using Sallow and Hornbeam ~ June 2020 | |
 Stripping the bark from the twigs. |  Cleaving the larger twigs. |
 The stripped twigs in a biscuit tin ready for firing. |  Firing the twigs in the clay oven. |
 The finished Artists' Charcoal. |  Testing the charcoal. |
Summer 2020 | |
 Stools and teacher's chair made for Bere Alston Primary School Forest School. | |
Spring 2020 | |
 Thomas by a Chestnut trees planted in his birth year. |  A rope structure for climbing excercise. |
 Regrowth on a Hazel coppice stool protected from deer by a brushwood fence. | |
 A new plantation of Wild Cherry with existing Hazel coppice stools protected from deer by brushwood fences. | |
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| Modifications to the clay oven to provide a horizontal flue that can be used as an additional hob. | |
 Forming the hob at the end of the flue. |  The finished job. |
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| Re-planting in a woodland clearing. | |
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| A circular logstack for seasoning firewood. | |
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| Oak pegs made for timber-framed buildings. | |
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| Painting in the woods with home-made brushes and paints made from natural pigments and egg. | |
Winter 2019/2020 | |
 A set of stools made for Bere Alston Primary Academy Forest School from Sallerton Wood Larch. | |
| The following photos show some winter activities at Sallerton Wood, mainly in an area cleared of Ash and Sycamore, ready for re-planting with Sweet Chestnut and Oak. Much of the felled timber is being converted to firewood, but some of it put aside for green woodworking courses. | |
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Craft and Conservation Day ~ 12 November 2019 | |
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| Steps before and after clearing and re-levelling. | |
 Hazel coppicing. |  Brash sorted into piles; smaller pieces to be left as habitat piles, larger pieces to be used for protection from deer around newly-cut coppice stools. |