Making a woodland Wand at Hallr Wood Forest School, Somerset
by Angus, 3 June, 2018, 1 comments
"When you make a wand," explains Arthur, "you should describe it by the wood that it's made from, its length and then its core (if it has one). This one's a hawthorn 11-inch and I got the wood from Hallr wood, where we run Wilder Woods Forest School." Arthur made his first wands when he was 17 including one lovely long dark wand which he was carrying with him when we met - "it's an 'Ebony 12-and-three-quarter-inch" . Arthur turns wands on a lathe and finishes them with shaping and applying a finish.
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