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Underwood: New spoons for sale
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Tuesday, 10 March 2015. New spoons for sale. Well it's been a while since I've posted on here! The move down to Kent to start working in the woodlands down here has been keeping me busy. I've also been busy making more wooden spoons in my spare time and have made too many to fit in our utensil draw at home! So here's a few that are up for sale. Please send me an email or leave a comment if you're interested in buying one. 15-01 Beech Crook - SORRY, NOW SOLD. Serving / cooking spoon. SORRY, NOW SOLD.
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Underwood: WitchHalse Coppice Crafts
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In 2013 during my traineeship as a Heritage Landscape Management Trainee at Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse, I decided to set up my own coppice business; WitchHalse Coppice Crafts. Originally, I specialised in hazel products, hence the name WitchHalse; which is an old English name for Hazel ( Corylus avellana. Originating from the west country. I now make other products from other species including fencing materials from sweet chestnut ( Castenea sativa. And silver birch ( Betula pendula. If you're intere...
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Underwood: A Hazel Bender
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Wednesday, 26 August 2015. Well it's been a while since my last post! It's been a busy year so far, I've been able to get out to quite a few coppice and craft related events so I thought I'd write up a few posts to summarise the year so far. The biggest project I've been involved in so far this year is the building of a traditional hazel 'bender'. Now, we've heard all the jokes. a bender in this sense is a traditional, simple shelter made using flexible withies or rods; often of hazel. At this point I sh...
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Underwood: A Woven Winter
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Monday, 11 April 2016. The end of the felling season arrived just a few weeks ago at the end of March, and it turned out to be a pretty busy felling season this year! Now the birds are singing, the sun is shining (sometimes) and winter is at last over. So I thought I'd post a few pictures to show the jobs I've been working on over the winter. A small area of willow that we harvested in early October. The willow harvested woven into the finished fence, from Forest to Fence! Woven gate mid-way along fence.
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Underwood: September 2015
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Tuesday, 1 September 2015. This was a post that I started back in March 2014 but never got around to publishing. I finally got around to finishing it off, here it is, enjoy! I was looking for an oak tree with a relatively straight stem, of about 15cm in diameter. I was working on my own so an axe and bow saw was used to fell the tree, which is nice as it means no power tools were used in the production of the handrail. The first stage of the process was to strip the bark from the tree with a drawknife.
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Underwood: August 2014
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Wednesday, 20 August 2014. Rooted' Pole Lathe Pt 1. Over the past few weeks I've been helping the guys at Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk build a pole lathe. But one with a bit of a difference; the legs are rooted into the ground! Here's a few pictures of Oxburgh's first addition to their new green woodworking area. The 'rooted' ash pole lathe legs. Cutting out the lathe bed, ash again. Measuring up the tenons on the top of the legs. Splitting the stocks or 'poppets' from a large oak log. Rooted Pole Lathe Pt 1.
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Underwood: Green Oak Handrail
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Tuesday, 1 September 2015. This was a post that I started back in March 2014 but never got around to publishing. I finally got around to finishing it off, here it is, enjoy! I was looking for an oak tree with a relatively straight stem, of about 15cm in diameter. I was working on my own so an axe and bow saw was used to fell the tree, which is nice as it means no power tools were used in the production of the handrail. The first stage of the process was to strip the bark from the tree with a drawknife.
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Underwood: Hedge Laying
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Sunday, 4 October 2015. The winter cutting season is finally here! The first job for me this cutting season has been a hedge laying job on a community green in Watlington, near Kings Lynn in Norfolk. First section of laid hedge. Hawthorn pleachers; the aim is to get the stem to 'lie down' without. Shearing it from the stump of the shrub. a proportion of the. Outer bark, inner bark, cambium and the sapwood layers remain. Attached. This way new growth will shoot from the pleacher and. The Eastern Daily Pre...
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Underwood: July 2014
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Monday, 7 July 2014. It's that time of year; the grass is long, the sun is shining and it's time to make hay! It's not coppicing, but I thought that it may be of interest to people. This year we had the opportunity to cut the grass in the orchard at work using scythes, turn it by hand and collect it by horse. Scything is something that I have never been involved with before, though after a training course last week and a week of scything I'm absolutely hooked. A bunch of enthusiastic trainee-scythers.
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