Green Wood Furniture Making + Steam Bending

A three-day course learning the skills and techniques of green woodworking and the magical art of steam-bending. Three days will give you more time to take on something a little more ambitious than the two-day introduction, and you will learn the basics of steaming wood to bend it into different shapes.

You will learn to make a simple stool with an elegant steam bent rail. Starting with a fresh cut log you will learn how to cleave the wood with a froe and wedges, then shape it on the shave horse with drawknife and spokeshave. You will learn to cleave and shave accurately to a given size to make a rail. This will be steam bent, and incorporated into the design. All timber supplied on this course is locally sourced. This course is suitable for beginners and intermediate learners of green woodwork wishing to take things a little further. Course dates can be found on our course calendar and all courses are held in my wonderful heated workshop near the sea. Click here for some options of places to stay locally. Click here to see reviews of my other courses.