Price £110 (plus blade as required)

Maximum number of places 6

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Course Details

On this course you will learn the process behind handle making for slöjd knives.

Adam will guide you through the selection and preparation of the right timber, the design of your handle and then step by step, making your own handle using seasoned birch from Ellekers Wood, utilising lap shaves, bench vices and a range of tools and techniques that you can then use again at home for future projects. Tools will be provided for use on the day.

If you already have one of Adam’s slöjd blades (or something very similar) please bring it along to use.  Adam’s new laser sloyd blades can be supplied for an extra cost ranging from £23-£27 depending on which size you prefer.

Later in the day, the course will then explore how to decorate and customise the handle, really making it personal and unique.

Please do get in touch with Adam if you’d like to check your blade is suitable.

Catering:

For all courses, a hearty, healthy lunch is provided (please let your tutor know of any dietary requirements when booking), along with tea, coffee and water.

We also provide firewood, brew-kit, washing up and cooking facilities, crockery and cutlery. 

Facilities:

Facilities include covered work spaces, an undercover outdoor cooking set-up, comfortable compost loo, and handwashing. A good stone track leads to the parking area within the wood, this is suitable for cars, please keep speed under 10mph.

Tutor Bio

After starting in green wood working, Adam quickly progressed to forging his own tools in his garden, a passion took hold, and his business Ash and Iron rapidly grew from there!

Adam is a highly skilled blacksmith whose attention to detail and understanding of his market has earned his tools a firm place in many a green woodworkers toolbox.  He now fabricates a range of great quality woodworking tools from his forge workshop in Yorkshire.

Adam also has a keen interest in the medieval, and may be found studying the detail and craft of artefacts at the Royal Armouries in Leeds, painstakingly recreating replica swords, armour, arrowheads and other exciting weaponry!