Introduction to Green Woodworking: Spoon Carving

This workshop is only available to Students, Staff and Faculty currently enrolled or working at the University of Waterloo.

People have been working with wood for at least 1000s of years creating tools to help them with work and art to seek to understand what it is to be human.

In this workshop we will start with building a relationship to and respect for trees and wood, and then learn the basics for working with green (unseasoned or freshly harvested) wood and hand tools to create a useful but beautiful tool- the kayak eating spoon.

You will learn how and where to source wood and how to continue your own spoon-carving practice.

No experience is necessary and all tools are provided.

This event will be held outdoors on the University campus. An indoor option fwill be available in the event of bad weather.

In respect of others and the limited number of places we have on these courses, PLEASE DO NOT BOOK UNLESS YOU ABSOLUTELY INTEND TO COME. If for some reason you cannot attend, please let us know as soon as possible so we can give the place to someone on the waiting list.

If a workshop is full, please email the organiser to be added to the waiting list.

Your instructor will be Jim Jones. Jim has been carving spoons and teaching spoon carving for about 5 years. He is the manager of the LSWS project and co-ordinator of the Ontario Land Skills Network