Christmas decoration wood carving
Spend a day carving your own special Christmas decorations, a wooden star bauble, a wood and copper candle and a wooden tree Spanbaum.
This course is a great way to get started with woodworking, covering choosing materials, using tools safely, carving techniques, and drying and finishing.
You’ll leave with the skills and knowledge needed to start carving, and with your own hand made decoration or three!
This course covers everything you need to know and do to create stylish wooden decorations to take away with you. It will give you the skills and confidence to start carving at home – a great way to unwind and to create your own unique, low impact gifts, ornaments and functional items.
This course is for anyone who would like to be able to carve wooden decorations from start to finish. Ideal for complete beginners or budding green wood workers looking to develop their skills.
The course is more than learning to carve decorations, it’s a chance to reconnect with the outdoors and switch off from all of life’s little stresses.
What to bring
All tools and materials will be provided, but do wear closed toe footwear, practical and warm clothes, and a packed lunch.
Refreshments, tea, coffee and biscuits, will be provided.
What you will learn
- Wood sources, types and forms for decoration carving
- Tools, their care and use
- Safe saw use
- Safe knife cutting techniques
- Copper wire shaping
- Discussions about, drying and finishes
Tutor: Neil Hopkins of Forge Ways is the tutor for this course.
Neil moved to the Dyfi Valley in 2007 near Machynlleth to work as a Renewable Engineering Project Manager and to live a more sustainable way of life on a smallholding, nestled in the foothills of the Cambrian Mountains. He has a passion for traditional skills and low impact ways of living, combined with a wealth of experience instructing in the outdoors. Neil has diverse qualifications and experience of arboriculture and green woodworking. He can often be found amongst the mountains as a member of his local mountain rescue team.
He has developed his skills using traditional methods and hand tools such as shave horse, pole lathe, froe, axe, crook knife and creates both beautiful and practical items from wood gathered locally.
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