Mastercrafts part 1 of 6 - Green Woodcraft 

The look on Charles's face when the green wood expert said "You won't do that again!" was priceless.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching this. Not only as a hobbies woodworking but as a good all around educational show.

the comment the host made about the feeling of seeing something all the way from the tree being cut down to the finished object made me think of how in the last year ive been learning how to forage plants from the woods behind my house. i personally am not that interested in woodworking, but i learned how harvest stinging nettle to make twine, which was a really cool experience. or, since i live in the US there's this invasive edible plant called garlic mustard that i taught myself how to cook last spring and it was an indescribable feeling to be able to walk out into the woods and come back with a core ingredient of my meal. i think people who don't have the opportunity to take something from living plant to finished object they've made are seriously missing out

Anyone who has enjoyed this video would probably enjoy 'The Woodwright's Shop'. Produced years ago by an American PBS station, the range of woodworking skills shownin that series was amazing. Only simple handtools were used, similar to what was used in this episode of Mastercrafts.

I love the fact that the expert and judge shows up in a homespun shirt covered in stains! :D

What an excellent show. Of course having an interest in woodworking helps. I have always held an interest in those that make chairs appear from a green log. Amazing show where others learn as much about themselves as they do about the craft.

I am so glad that I found these back. Great stuff on youtube

I started working with green wood because dry wood is too expensive to buy and cut trees I always see left on streets or people just happy to get rid of them. Started making spoons, then shrink pots, clothes hangers, workbench, so many things you can do

Made some of my own furniture before without powertools, including a bookrack, bamboo stem table, and standard table from scratch. I always recycle any wood I have or find dumped... 2 home made pergolas in the garden too, something about working wood I find quite relaxing.. these pieces are very artsy though, mine are merely functional, no detail, no nic-nacs... I've always been amazed by medieval toy-making and stuff as I worked in achaeology where I unearthed combs made from bone, skates made from bone, tools made from wood, toys made from wood... I miss this sort of craftiness by our own hands in this world. I didn't know Monty had another amazing show series aside of "around the world in 80 gardens and gardeners world". Awesome , will enjoy the next parts tomorrow, loooking forward to blacksmithing in particular

when we make particularly furniture we put some of ourselves into it. its tactile living thing wood. I see it as art & therapy never STOP loving xx

Good stuff! I learned so much from watching this!

That's was awesome,,,, keep up the good work

Pole lathe... new project to try!

Thanks for the upload :)

Awesome!!! From China

Beautiful craft.

This is a great show. I wish 'Murica would produce shows like this.

amazing lathe!

When Sarah made her tenon too small,a real bodger could have wedged it in the mortise and shown another skill. Throwing it in the fire -ugh. There is a tool like a large pencil sharpener for making tapered round tenons. I don’t think the bodgers around High Wycombe had vernier calipers. Turning to 17.5mm ain’t going to work for any absolute beginner. The art of teaching includes not overfacing the pupil.

Very nice film (y)

Monty wanted to do all the crafts but greenwood working was his most sought n

56:07 At this point i THOUGHT he was gunna say to Charles : "This says FIRE WOOD"

Function over Form!

its a shame no one wants to pass on the trade.

All hand tools...and then out comes the power drill ????

Interesting, however the guy that uses "Traditional Methods" to manage the woodlands with his horse seemed like he was using maybe a 17th Century "Olde Worlde Stihl Saw" - bit pointless blathering about the horse part!

What about the one that got away ? That was huge !

Hello, first of all sorry for my translation Spanish - English (Google Translate) Video 8:49 minutes played, the teacher takes a seat on a bench where will revajar a timber. My question is: how is called the workbench? Hola, ante todo perdón por mi traducción español - inglés (Google Traductor) En el minuto 8:49 del vídeo, el maestro toma asiento en un banco donde va a revajar una madera. Mi pregunta es: ¿como se llama el banco de trabajo?

So Greenwood Craft is basically furniture making with no modern tools?

then fells a tree with a chainsaw

What was the special tenon cutting tool?

and nowadays our joiners being turned out by the local colleges can't even sharpen their own saws !!!!

Guys, it's too easy to be critical these days. A simple video, yes indeed. I liked it.

Anyone know the end credit music?

If you view the films of the bodgers, they worked their pole lathes much higher. I wonder why. No point in making Greenwood parallel tenons to 0.1mm as they will shrink. Setting a novice against a professional woodworker is just a tv gimmick. A woodwork teacher wearing a tie. Not health and safety. Chair design is full of complicated angles and maybe curves, which were not covered. Bodgers only roughly turned out Windsor chair parts. They were factory finished in High Wycombe. Tenons were often tapered and maybe wedged.

Judge

4 guys and a woman. guess who has to be bad at it

This could do without the drama and tears...They wanted equality, as long as hard work isn't involved !

I don't like that nature has to die though for us... Wish we could use dead trees for building but indeed, logic says their wood isn't strong anymore...

I find it difficult to believe that Sarah is so out of touch with working greenwood.Normally people gets interested in works where they instinctly knows this is something for me!?It is about salting the video,giving some flavour to the program.

he may be a good workwooder but he seems a poor teacher the way he treated the woman

Don't worry Sarah love. The smug git obviously hasn't realised that he's a crap teacher.. I know where I would have been shoving those sticks and it wouldn't have been on the fire..

WHAT IS THE BLOODY POINT IN WATCHING ANY MORE ?!?! Sarah goes from making firewood and tears one day , to building a full chair the next !!! Yeah, Right ...How Stupid do they think we are 🦧

Yeah I also felt bad for the girl but she was a very good sport about it I didn’t like the criticism they gave her I absolutely understand it I just didn’t like it

That women better find a new career then. She has children for crying out loud.