Traditional Woodcraft Week w/ Roy – Start With a Tree
For five days we’ll explore the techniques of both the countryman and the builder. We’ll fell a tree, haul it out 
and then rive, hew, adz and pit saw it while the wood is still fresh and easy to work. While the larger timbers will go for log building and timber framing, we’ll see how smaller stock works up into dough bowls, shoulder yokes, hay rakes and the like—changing tools and techniques as the wood seasons and changes character.
Sometimes called green woodworking, this course will enable you to use wood in all states of seasoning to your advantage. We’ll steam, we’ll bend, we’ll chop til we drop, cramming in every bit of traditional woodcraft (up to where the plane begins) that we can. We’ll approach the more dangerous work through group learning and taking turns, but we’ll still have plenty of time for individual hands-on exercise. During the week, you’ll work with riven, hewn, and sawn stock to build a shaving horse to take with you.
This will be our first class conducted at the woodland campus of The Woodwright’s School at McBane Mill on Cane Creek near Saxapahaw, NC. Catered lunch included while we're at the mill – you’ll definitely work up an appetite!
Monday Morning
The Faller
What trees? What wood?
Axe and Helve
Felling
Monday Afternoon
Crosscut Saw
Buck and Sharpen
Log Handling
Hauling Out
Monday's Work
Cross cut and rive legs for shaving horse.
Tuesday Morning
The Cleaver & Countryman
Riving with Beetle and Wedge
Froe and Hand Axe
Mortising and Post Axe
Adze and Bowl Adze
Buck saw
Tuesday Afternoon
Knife and Crooked Knife
Shaving Horse & Draw Knife
Spokeshaves, Wood and Iron
The Devil, the Travisher & the Forkstaff Plane
Boring with Augers, Brace & Bits, Drills, and Gimlets
Tuesday's Work
Bore and mortise planks for legs and dumbhead.
Wednesday Morning
The Hewer
Spike Dogs, Plumb and Snapline
Notch and Split
Broad Axe & Adz
Wednesday Afternoon
Peg & Dowel Plate
Tenon Cutter and Spoke Pointer
Taper Auger & Rounder plane
Chair Building
Steam Bending
Spring Pole Turning
Sharpening with Grindstone & Whetstone
Wednesday's Work
Hew out dumbheads.
Thursday Morning
The Log Builder
Saddle Notches
V Notches
Dovetail Notching
Thursday Afternoon
The Sawyer
Pit Saws
Rip Teeth
Lining Out
Sawing
Thursday's Work
Attach riser and block with wedged pegs.
Friday Morning
The Frame Carpenter
Scribe and Square
Lap Joints and Gauges
Chisels, Slicks and Besaiguë
Saw Horse and Square
Miter Lap
Dovetail Lap
Dovetail Tenon and Bridle joint
Mortise & Tenon
Friday Afternoon
Boring Machine
Corner Chisel
Draw Boring
Beams and Tusk Tenons
Trait du Jupiter Scarf
Spanish Windlass
Block & Fall
Friday's Work
Complete shaving horse with tread and head.
Materials fee $35.
Five days, 9AM - 5:30PM
$695
• Monday, April 02, 2012 9:00 AM - Friday, April 06, 2012
• Monday, June 04, 2012 9:00 AM - Friday, June 08, 2012