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Bushcraft Knives & Axe Course  •  Buckskin & Hide Tanning  •  Bushcraft Bow Making Course
Woodcraft & Whittling Workshop  •  Flint Knapper  •  North Woods Paddle Making
Mittens & Mukluks

Bushcraft Mastercraft Workshops


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The Mastercraft Bushcraft Workshops are designed to deliver hands-on experience of selected traditional bushcraft techniques and wilderness living skills employed throughout antiquity. They are ideal opportunities to gain focussed professional tuition of highly practical specialist skills, and examine both the historical and contemporary context concerning their usage. These workshops cater to the novice, the specialist, the curious and the escapist alike!

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Moccasins, Mittens & Mukluks



 Moccasins, Mittens & Mukluks

During this workshop you will make chopper style over-mittens with removable, separate, inner wool liners, as well as a pair of buckskin moccasin mukluks with hand-felted liners fit to wear in temperatures of -28C or more!
 Flint Knapper 
flint knapper course
 The Flint Knapper

Led by Will Lord and Werner Pfeifer, this two-day course follows the evolutionary steps in the development of different types of stone tools, and learn the basic techniques of lithic technology.
 Woodcraft & Whittling Workshop  
whittling workshop
Woodcraft & Whittling Workshop

This weekend course teaches advanced carving techniques, with the focus mainly on knife skills, covering classical Scandinavian carving project but a strong emphasis on our own traditional British heritage of greenwood carving.
 North Woods Paddle Making
 
paddle making
 North Woods Paddle Making

A paddle making master-class with renowned wilderness guide Alexandra Conover
  Axe Workshop 
Using bushcraft knives and axes
Axe Workshop

Three days learning to use bushcraft knives and axes, the tools of the backwoods.                                                                                                                                                             
 Buckskin & Hide Tanning
 
Scraping a deer hideBuckskin & Hide Tanning

A five-day workshop making bone tools, tasty venison and soft  tanned and wood smoked buckskin.
 Bowyer Course
 
Student on bow making courseThe Bowyer
    
Making a stone age flat bow, using minimal bushcraft tools.

Bushcraft Knives & Axe Course  •  Buckskin & Hide Tanning  •  Bushcraft Bow Making Course
Woodcraft & Whittling Workshop  •  Flint Knapper  •  North Woods Paddle Making
Mittens & Mukluks