The course program this year features several one day workshops, starting this coming Monday, 13th May with the Make Your Own Bucksaw and Canvas Case Workshop and there’s still a spare place!
Location – Wiltshire, near Salisbury
Price - £120
Get in touch to book.
The bucksaw is a collapsible, lightweight wooden frame saw used for sectioning larger timber and light felling – the perfect companion for a good quality axe.
The clever mortice and tenon construction all held firm by the tensioning cord, comes apart quickly and easily when not in use and fits inside a narrow canvas sleeve so it can be carried in a rucksack for heavy duty camp building and woodland crafts.
This workshop will show you how to plan out and cut the mortice and tenon joints using hand tools and your bucksaws will be made from planed seasoned oak, sealed with Danish oil.
The canvas carry case complete with QR buckle and strap can either be hand stitched here in the woods or cut out and tacked for finishing at home on a sewing machine. Blade, wing nuts, strong cord and all tools and equipment are provided.
Hot drinks and snacks are available all day but please bring along your own lunch.
There are several other one day workshops with availability...
One day workshops can also be booked as a stag or hen day out or a team building exercise featuring skills such as navigation, survival shelters, improvised fire lighting, wild foods and campfire cooking.
I’ll even come to you!
Celtic Harmony (pictured below) booked me to visit their amazing village of Iron Age roundhouses last month, to show the staff how to weave fish traps from willow.
The list of subjects that can be demonstrated and taught in a day is pretty extensive – wild foods, campfire cooking, spoon carving, hide working, weaving, bark crafts, fire lighting by friction, making primitive hunting weapons and traps, wild game preparation, make a three legged stool from a log...get in touch to discuss your plans and ideas.
