Sloyd Cast
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A podcast featuring spoon carvers, green woodworkers, blacksmiths and all those movers and shakers in the handcraft world.
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Jun 28, 2022
BONUS – Solstice Sloyd Shindig
Mike & I hosted a small informal gathering here in Sedalia, VA the weekend before the summer solstice. A great group of local sloyd enthusiasts gathered and we carved, cooked, swam, and pole lathe turned for a couple days. This is a short bonus episode introducing everyone who was there. Enjoy!
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Jun 9, 2022
Episode 16 – Julia Kalthoff
Join us for this chat with crafty axe maker Julia Kalthoff. We learn about her lifelong craft journey from her mother’s fabric store to working for Wetterlings. We get into all of the the details of the inception and production of the axes she makes–from the long process of refining each aspect of the design […]
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May 3, 2022
Episode 15 – Zed Shah
Join us for this lively conversation with none other than Zed Shah. We get into a wide range of topics, learning about Zed’s inroad to bushcraft, spooncarving and the broader sloyd world from his background in social work and marketing. We explore how the geographical & cultural distinctions influence craft in different parts of the […]
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Feb 15, 2022
Episode 14 – Mark Krawczyk
Join us for this engaging chat with Mark Krawczyk—Renaissance man of permaculture, wood craft, and agroforestry. We delve into his journey from college to study permaculture with Bill Mollison in the early 2000’s which eventually lead him to the UK to learn from the likes of Ben Law, Mike Abbott, and back to the states […]
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Jan 31, 2022
Episode 13 – Rosie Rendell
Join us for this chat with the amazingly talented coppice and green woodworker Rosie Rendell. We learn about her journey from gardener to coppice woodworker and the burgeoning businesses she has built since. She gives us a lesson in what coppicing is, what hedgelaying is, and some of the basic principles and practices that define […]
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Nov 22, 2021
Episode 12 – Lee Stoffer
Join us for this chat with the multi-talented craftsman Lee Stoffer. We get into Lee’s first introduction to green woodworking and sloyd via the illustrious Mike Abbott, how he went from the pole lathe to spoon carving to tool making and leather work. We learn about how he came to develop his now celebrated spoon […]
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Aug 21, 2021
Episode 11 – Magnus Sundelin
Join us for this wonderful chat with the one and only, Magnus Sundelin aka Sloyd Magnus. We get into the lifelong journey of sloyd for Magnus, starting with whittling in the woods alongside his grandfather, and the long circuitous path that lead him to where he is today as part crafts teacher, green woodworker and […]
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May 24, 2021
Episode 10 — Fred Livesay
Join us for a lovely chat with the savvy sloyder, Fred Livesay. We learn about his journey through the realms of handcraft starting from the ripe young age of 7, and the decades of exploration and experience he’s embarked on since. We chat about the deep influence of Scandinavian wood working tradition in his work, […]
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Mar 17, 2021
Episode 09 — Reid Schwartz
Join us fo this information packed chat with the maestro of metal, Reid Schwartz. We learn about his journey from art school to cabinet shop and his passion for metal working that was sparked early on, the video of a Russian ladle carver that blew his mind, his experience learning to make birch bark canoes, […]
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Feb 21, 2021
Episode 08 — Mike Abbott
Join us for a lovely chat with the Godfather of Green Woodworking in the UK, none other than Mike Abbott. We hear about Mike’s journey to the craft starting in the early 1980’s and the long winding road that led him to establishing Living Woods Training in 1985. He shares countless stories of all the […]
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