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Table Making
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Table Making

Witherslack
Introductory
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Multiple dates available Short Course In person

Overview

This one-day course enables you to learn all the traditional skills used to produce a useful and practical table. All the materials are sourced from the woodland on the estate, you’ll split the wood by hand and turn the legs and joints on the pole lathe. The final stage involves fitting and wedging the through-tenons on the legs. Our house is full of these handy tables, you can never have too many.

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Table Making

No previous experience is needed, and all levels of ability are welcome. All courses are held at the workshop on the Witherslack Estate, which is the largest ancient woodland in Cumbria.

At a glance

  • The piece you will create on this course is traditional to the woodland heritage of the Lake District
  • You will learn to select green Ash timber, sustainably felled in the surrounding woodland. You will then be taken through the process of splitting the logs using wedges and mallets to produce the material needed
  • Once this is done, using traditional hand tools, the froe, axe, drawknife and spokeshave, on a shave horse, you will create the components needed
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