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Bodged chairs or other bespoke items made to order. To discuss styles, prices, production times etc email me or call 01594 836546
Ash
chair with kambaa (palm leaf) seating.
Bodge Rock, the sounds of bodging, 2 mins.
I really like the wych elm seating, but wych elms and permission to skin them are hard to find. I like the kambaa too but it's a bit African, so I've tried this bendy slat seating style. It allows for a pleasing buttock roll. (Guide price �325).
Ash
chairs with lime and wych elm bark seating, made by Jazz at Mike Abott
workshops.
Our version of bodging is the building of furniture/items from a log, without
using glue or nails, using mainly hand or foot powered tools - shaving horse and
pole lathe. The tools are sharp, but
relatively safe to use compared to power tools. Different tools suit different
age groups. Jazz who led our interest in bodging has been bodging since the age
of 9, five years ago. Children having nimble minds seem to pick up the skills
quicker than adults. Pole lathing is a fantastic exercise in foot/hand/eye
co-ordination. Splitting logs accuratly engenders an appreciation of materials
strengths and weaknesses and how to exploit them. The educational gains are
huge.
If you're interested in workshops let us know. We're hoping to be setting up a bodge workshop zone in our newly opening local iron age village in summer 2012.
email me or call 01594 836546
Stockwood,
located in the scowles opposite Clearwell Caves, Forest of Dean.
Jazz
has also learnt how to make baskets and been showing small groups and
individuals how to make them.
Artist
David Behar put out a call for volunteers to help build some medieval
scaffolding outside Gloucester Cathedral so Jazz and me went and lent a hand.
Great fun building it, and it looked superb, but the scaffolding behind us did
go up a bit higher a faster.
