How to use some of the tools…

Thanks to all those craftsmen whose videos I have included here.

The Twybill – cutting a mortice

The adze – a timber framing essential

The Froe – Splitting a log

The Pole Lathe – and its chisels.

Augers and gouges – making a shrink pot

The bark-peeling ‘spud’ – Kath Morgan demonstrates…

Peeling Oak Bark – Bill Hogarth at work

The side axe – hewing an oak log with a Lincolnshire side-axe

Using the Billhook

A visit to the Greenwood Bodger’s Ball

Make a chair in a day – with the Kent Bodgers

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