A great opportunity to spend a day with a master pole lathe turner, learning the basic principles and techniques to get you started.

You will learn:

- Tool selection
- Wood selection
- Forming a billet and using a shave horse
- Setting up a pole lathe
- Turning techniques to create a number of different products

Your course tutor will be Tom Dillon. Tom has been a green woodworker for over ten years, starting out as Mike Abbott’s chairmaking assistant in 2011. Since then he has been involved in woodland management and round wood timber framing projects and has worked teaching green wood crafts for a Special Education College for young adults.