This is Mike shaping a spatula on a "shave horse", using a hand tool called a draw knife. The shave horse is like a medieval "Black & Decker work mate. It allows you to secure wood in a stable place while you work and shape it. All of our regular group members can now use the shave horse with confidence.
The Worcestershire Woodland Project (WWP) offers participants an opportunity to experience working in an outdoor woodland setting, learning new skills, building social skills and raising levels of confidence. The project aims to equip participants with vocational skills to use in the workplace whilst also involving people in conservation work and improving levels of physical and mental health and wellbeing through the use of social forestry. Activities range from coppicing, weaving fences, pole lathe wood turning, cooking on camp fires to walking through the woodland learning the history and dynamics of the woodland environment. Our base camp is in Churchill Wood, Spetchley. Materials are sourced from the wood itself.
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Thursday, 1 December 2011
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