We’re pleased to release our course programme for Spring 2019.
All courses will be supported by our new dedicated Teaching Barn, and overseen by our newly appointed Head of Wood School, Joe Bray.
| Guitar maintenance & repair – with local luthier Steve Kendall
Learn how to perform guitar ‘set-ups’ so that your guitar sounds and plays at its best. Saturday 26th January 2019, 9:30am – 4:00pm. Cost £100.
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 Steve Kendall guitar course |
| Make a canoe paddle – with award-winning boat builder Colin Henwood
During this two-day course you will learn how to shape a single canoe paddle from Ash using hand tools. Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd February, 2019, 9.00am to 5.00pm. Cost £225.
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 Colin Henwood with students making a canoe paddle at the Sylva Wood Centre |
| Make a green wood stool – with green woodworker Peter Wood
Working with green wood using simple hand tools, by the end of this two-day course you will make a three-legged stool. Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th February, 2019, 9:30am – 4:00pm. Cost £225.
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 Green stool making course at Sylva Wood Centre |
| Pole lathe course – with green woodworker Peter Wood
A two-day course to learn how to work with green wood using simple hand tools, and a pole lathe, to create a stool with turned legs. Saturday 9th and Sunday 10th March, 2019, 9:30am – 4:00pm. Cost £225.
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 Pole lathe course |
| Saxon Building Woodwork, or ‘Treewrighting’ – with Damian Goodburn
Learn about Anglo-Saxon building woodwork, based mainly on the study of surviving wooden remains, including a review of relatively new evidence, with live demonstrations of tools and techniques, and opportunities to watch treewrighting in action. Led by leading archaeological woodwork specialist Damian Goodburn BA PhD. Saturday 23rd March 2019, 10.00am-4.00pm Cost £75.
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 Saxon broad axe work |
| Treewighting and timber-framing – with the Carpenters Fellowship – £100
During this unique one day treewrighting course you will learn and develop skills and knowledge in the making of a timber-frame using traditional tools and techniques. Five one-day courses available which can also be booked as a block. Available on 20th,21st,22nd 23rd & 24th March 2019, 9.00am-5.00pm. Cost £100 per day.
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 Carpenters’ Fellowship training at the Sylva Wood Centre |
| Hurdle making – with coppice worker and craftsman Simon Farndon
Students will be taught hazel splitting and how to make hurdles on the Saturday and then will practise making hurdles on the Sunday. Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th March 2019, 10.00am-4.00pm. Cost £200.
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 Hurdle-making with Simon Farndon |
| Make a canoe paddle – with award-winning boat builder Colin Henwood
During this two-day course you will learn how to shape a single canoe paddle from ash using hand tools. Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th April, 2019, 9.00am to 5.00pm. Cost £225.
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Colin Henwood with students making a canoe paddle at the Sylva Wood Centre |
Full terms and conditions available at www.sylva.org.uk/courses
