Craft and Conservation Day ~ 12 November 2019 | |
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| Steps before and after clearing and re-levelling. | |
 Hazel coppicing. |  Brash sorted into piles; smaller pieces to be left as habitat piles, larger pieces to be used for protection from deer around newly-cut coppice stools. |
Craft and Conservation Day ~ 26 September 2019 | |
 A pair of shutters made for the compost loo windows. | |
 Hazel wands coppiced and trimmed. |  Sawing the Hazel to 30” lengths, ready for cleaving in two. |
 Cleaving the Hazel using a billhook. |  Using a rounding plane to size the shutter frame tenons. |
 Weaving the cleft Hazel into the frames and trimming the ends. |  Mike and Robert with the completed shutters. |
A set of small chairs for children - a recent commission | |
 Three completed child chairs | |
 More child chairs under constrution. | |
Forest School Family Day ~ 21 September 2019 | |
 Cooking dough twisters over the fire to have with local Devonshire honey and Elderberry jam. | |
 Dough twisters cooking over the fire. |  Autumnal fruits and nuts gathered for identification. |
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| Natural works of art using our autumnal finds using the woodland floor as our canvas. | |
Stool-making Course ~ 18 - 20 September 2019 | |
 Bob, Dick, Graham, Alan, and Carol at the end of the course with their finished stools. | |
 A stool seat in woven Kamba. |  A stool seat in woven Sea-grass. |
Kuksa Carving Course ~ 14 - 15 September 2019 | |
 Joe, Nathan, Andy, Deb, and Mick at the end of the course with their kuksas. | |
 Some kuksas made previously. |  The finished kuksas at the end of the course. |
Make a Shave Horse Course ~ 9 - 10 September 2019 | |
 Course participants Brian, Sue, Gavin, Steve, Elliot, Jayne, and Amanda with their finished shave horses. | |
Some Recent Awards for Sallerton Wood | |
 CraftCourses.com Platinum Award for receiving more than 50 Five-Star Reviews. |  Woodlands.co.uk Best Woodland Courses Award. |
Make a Shave Horse Course ~ 31 August - 1 September 2019 | |
 Course participants John, Ian, Paul, and Steve with their finished shave horses. | |
 Turning components on pole lathes. |  Cutting a leg tenon with a rounder. |
 Trimming a leg with a draw-knife. | |
Drawn to the Valley Open Studio at Sallerton Wood ~ 26 - 29 August 2019 | |
 Andy talking to visitors about his peg-makling activities. | |
 Some of the items for sale at the Open Studio. | |
Chair Making Course ~ 20 - 25 July 2019 | |
 Course participants Chris, Mark, John, and John with their finished spindle-back and ladder-back chairs. | |
Make a Shave Horse Course ~ 6 - 7 July 2019 | |
 Course participants Iori, Nick, Les, and Seb with their finished shave horses. | |
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| Turning frame components on the pole lathes. | |
 Marking drilling positions on the frame. |  A completed frame. |
 A completed Shave Horse. | |
Make a Shave Horse Course ~ 15 - 16 June 2019 | |
 Course participants Mike, Bobby, Glenn, Sam and Mark with their finished shave horses. | |
 Turning a frame pivot on the pole lathe. |  Trimming a frame component. |
 Drilling through the seat for the frame pivot. |  Drilling through the frame. |
 Trimming the seat. |  Trimming the seat. |
 A completed shave horse. |  A completed shave horse. |
Introduction to Green Woodwork Course ~ 13 June 2019 | |
 Glenn, Gary, Bobby, Alice and Mike at the end of the course with their products. | |
 Shaping with an axe. |  Working on a shave horse. |
 Working on the pole lathes. | |
Chair-making Course ~ 25 - 30 May 2019 | |
 Shaping a chair leg with a draw-knife. |  Bending the back laths in a former. |
 Bending the back laths in a former. |  Steaming the legs ready for bending. |
 Components in the drying box. |  Squeezing a chair frame together. |
 Assembling a back panel. |  Assembling a chair frame. |
 An Elm log for bark stripping. |  Instruction in Elm bark seating. |
 Weaving an Elm bark seat. |  Maxine's completed spindle-back chair. |
Bere Alston and Horrabridge Scout Groups Woodcraft Day ~ 19 May 2019 | |
 Local Scouts with mallets that they made in the woods. | |
 Sawing lengths of log for mallet-making. |  Trimming a mallet handle. |
 Splitting out the mallet handle. | |
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| Removing Ivy from trees selected for timber utilization. | |
 Woggle-making by the stream in the woods. | |
Kuksa Carving Course ~ 14 - 15 May 2019 | |
 Eunhye, Freddy, Clive, Ben and Dave at the end of the course with their kuksas. | |
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Course participants working with their kuksas in the woodland workshop shelter. | |
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Scooping out the kuksa bowl with a gouge. | |
 Scooping out the kuksa bowl with a gouge. |  Drilling a hole for the handle. |
 Shaping the exterior. |  Carving the handle. |
 The completed kuksas in a variety of styles. All made from Alder grown in Sallerton Wood. | |
Introduction to Green Woodwork Course ~ 11 May 2019 | |
 James, Trevor and Karen at the end of the course with their products. | |
 Sawing a green Ash log to length. |  A selection of mallets made on the course. |
 Cleaving a mallet handle. | |
 Shaping with a drawknife and shave horse. |  The workshop shelter with pole lathes at the end. |
 Karen using a pole lathe. |  Trevor and James using the pole lathes. |
Construction of a new improved workshop shelter for the green woodworking courses | |
 The completed new workshop shelter. | |
 A new work bench and cupboard for housing tools during courses in the new workshop shelter. | |
 Drawknives and spoke shaves hanging in the cupboard. |  The new work bench and tool cupboard. |
 The new workshop shelter with its roof. | |
 The new workshop shelter with its roof. |  A Sallerton Wood Larch back panel fitted to one bay. |
 The new workshop shelter frame sitting nicely in the woodland. Constructed on site from locally-grown Redwood and Sallerton Wood Sweet Chestnut. | |
 Main frame erection completed. Purlins to be added soon. |  The erection team; Jane, John, Andy, Justin, and Ben plus David (not in photo). |
 Andy working in the mornng mist. |  Main frame erection completed. |
 Cross frame ready for lifting. |  Assembling a cross frame in situ. |
 Timbers jointed for the front and rear frames. |  Front frame nearly complete. |
 Preparing naturally curved chestnut braces ready for framing. |  Cross frame complete (one of five). |
 Temporary tarp shelter for the framing work for the new workshop. |  Pegs for the timber frame in the drying box. |
 Timber ready for the framing work. | |
 Ash logs cleared for the workshop; ideal for this years courses! |  Cleared Alder logs. |
Winter 2018/2019 | |
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Forest School Family Day - 3 February 2019. The origins of basket-making? | |
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Winter returns to the woods for the first Forest School session of 2019! | |
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A second solar panel fitted for generating power for lighting, water-pumping and charging tools. | |
 The southern roof of the utility shelter completed with Sweet Chestnut shakes
Shakes are produced by cleaving, whereas shingles are produced by sawing.
. The shakes have been hand-made by Andy and volunteers from Sweet Chestnut grown and processed within the woodland. | |
 The northern roof of the utility shelter nearing completion. | |
 The washroom annex to the utility shelter. |  The new roof on the north side of the utility shelter. |
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The pottery kiln in use to fire bricks made from clay dug in the woodland. The kiln itself was also made from woodland clay during Forest School sessions earlier in the year. | |
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The bricks being used for an arch to line and support the doorway of the clay oven. | |
Forest School Family Day ~ 25 November 2018 | |
 The start of the Forest School Family Day decorative felt-making session. | |
 Greteli Morton demonstrating the process. |  Felting underway. |
 Kids getting stuck in. |  Mums having a go. |
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Everyone at it. | |
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Things taking shape. | |
 The finished felts. | |
 Some of the proud workers. | |
 Story time around the camp fire. | |