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Horses for Courses ...

12/11/2012

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Annie, Jules, Martin and Gail put in a Big Tree shift this weeknd and made their own shave horses. Using ash and oak that our local forester on Lothian Estates had looked out for us, they made superb work stations for their own green woodworking projects. The hand skills, tool knowledge and general attitude was awesome. Two cracking frosty and bright November days  ... what a way to spend a weekend learning new technique. Well done guys !
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Mackem and Takem

22/10/2012

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Another great sunny and warm autumn day here at Buy Design Gallery. We had a great weekend of making and craic. "Repeat offenders" Dave and Gail were there making shaving horses and hedge chairs. Their work is always good and its great to see them coming on with the green wood. New boy Gavin made a fantastic chair at his first attempt on the hedge chair course. Beautiful lines and accurate construction. Let's see if he can encourage more of Scotlands architectural community to learn about timber, tools and technique - first hand. Mackem and Tackem - Make Them and Take Them coined by our Durham Dave - could be a new strap line for The Big Tree Society courses. Some new course dates up the the booking forms for 2013 folks - have a look.
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Forest Folk at Wooplaw 25

24/9/2012

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Some images of the Forest Folk that we made as part of the Wooplaw 25 celebrations this month up at Wooplaw Community Woodlands. These wee gadjies went down a treat with bairns, and adults alike. Some great colours and hair -do's don't you think. We are going to leave them in the woods to look after the trees in Axehead and Gullet Woods.
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Stool Making Course Sept 2012

24/9/2012

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Another great day making stools at Buy Design Gallery. Fiona, Callum, Dave and Annie put in a Big Tree shift and made beautiful stools on a hot sunny early Auumn day. Four gerat makers in the offing here we suspect. Keen as mustard and great craic.
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Stool Making Day 9th June 2012

11/6/2012

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Another great day with Big Tree participants managing to keep the rain away from the course day. See below for a studies in concentration. Some stool places free at end of August at Buy Design and at the Botanics, Edinburgh in October.
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Horse Logging Wooplaw Community Woods May 2012

31/5/2012

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Green woodworking Weekend at Wooplaw 2012

31/5/2012

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Willow Chairs at Wooplaw

28/3/2012

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Oh my God ! Take a look at these fantastic constructions made by a brilliant team that came to our first Willow Chair day of the year. They coppiced out some big willow, selected and measured, designed and built six beautiful chairs for their homes and gardens. all managed to get them into the transport home. The guys at Big Tree always look forward to this course at Wooplaw because its so free flowing, free form and just really inspiring for us to watch the shapes, and structures taking shape. This is their work .......  AWESOME !!!!!!
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March Shaving Horse Days

28/3/2012

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A couple of folks turned out for the weekend to make their very own shaving horses. These "repeat offenders" have been on previous Big Tree courses and were desperate to make their own work stations. There's no stopping them now. Off to Skye and Northumberland to share the knowledge and spread the word ! We look forward to seeing some of the great products produced off their backs !
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Dunbar Community Woods Shaving Horse Day

28/3/2012

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Heres the official record of the days events with the crew form Dunbar (Lochend) Community Woods. What a weekend we had ! These horses and skills learned over the two days down at Buy Design are going to be put to great use in their woodlands over the next few years. If you are in the Dunbar area go and help them out !
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