Book Fresh Wood by Sjors van der Meer & Job Suijker

About making chairs, spoons and tools out of freshly harvested round wood.

Working with fresh wood, the natural way Sjors van der Meer & Job Suijker takes you into the rich and magical world of trees, wood and crafts. They will show you how you can make unique pieces of work from freshly harvested round wood using simple tools and age-old techniques. Your workshop is the garden, the living room or, best of all, the forest.

The logs or branches you need for freshwood crafting are available everywhere. Not only in forested areas, but also in the city you can find logs and prunings. The authors describe the techniques for working fresh wood, using hand tools such as the axe, the splitting iron, the fetching knife and the auger. Step by step they show how to use these to make utensils such as a spoon, a stool, chair, a wooden hammer or a planing buck.

Sjors van der Meer and Job Suijker give woodworking workshops in the middle of the forest with their company VersHout. The students work with fresh wood and in nature. And so they experience how stimulating and uplifting it is to make something with your own hands.

Working with your hands makes you smarter!