The Carpenters Fellowship is an organisation dedicated to promoting communication, training and sharing of knowledge amongst those interested in historic and contemporary timber framed structures. Every year a large proportion of the oak framed carpenters from around the country, and some from abroad, get together, and have a good time.
This year "Frame" is going to be held in St Fagans Museum near Cardiff, it's a great museum, which fits in really well with what the Fellowship does.
Every year we hold an auction to raise some funds for the fellowship. This year I'm donating a saw to the auction. It will be one of my site saws with the English beech handle.
I use Whitney sawmills on the river Wye. They are a great small sawmill that only uses home grown timber, but the quality of their timber and sawing is excellent.
I was shown to the stack of beech and let loose to rumage through till I found the one for me.
Well here it is, and I can tell that it will come up a treat when the handles are finished.
The handle for the fellowship saw is roughed out ready for shaping. You can see the contrast with a half finished American black walnut handle above.
They'll get an invite to cut the teeth themselve in my workshop, or I can cut them and post the saw on.
Frame is a great event but it does take a lot of organising.
I'm also running a demonstration on restoring old saws back to life. At some point I have to take my workshop apart and pack it up to go to Cardiff.
All the hard work will be worth it.