Duration: 2 1/2 Days
Location: The Little Surrenden Workshops and local woodlands

General Course Content
Kent is well known as a county with a tradition for growing coppice timber. This course has been designed for students who wish to build furniture using locally grown timber from a sustainable source. Part of the course will be held in the purpose built green woodworking barn at Little Surrenden in addition to the main workshops and on location in local coppices and woodland.

Many of the traditional ways to make stick furniture involve the use of lathes, rounders or other expensive tooling. This fresh approach to construction allows beginners to quickly make joints which are as good if not better.

Students will have the opportunity to choose a design for either a stool, chair or occasional table. After selection, they will be shown how to make a list of the components needed for the construction. These components will then be selected from a stock of timber at the school or taken directly from local coppices and woodland. After instruction, each student will have time to complete at least one item of stick furniture (weaving chair seats and backs would have to be completed at home).

The course fee includes the loan of a tool kit necessary to make mortices and tenons, clamp, cut and plane timber. All materials necessary for the construction (with the exception of seating materials). Course notes. A light lunch each full day. Tea and coffee.

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