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Roger Romagosa

Wildwood Craftsman

Roger's home and stu­dio are in Sant Marti Vell, among fields and forests, where his in­ter­nal call to the wilder­ness guides him in ex­plor­ing and en­joy­ing the gifts of na­ture that have led him to start his “Slow­Fusta” pro­ject. He ded­i­cates his time partly to his cre­ations and also to hold­ing work­shops for those who want to enter the world of wood­work­ing.

What he calls wild­wood-work­ing is a trans­la­tion from Ger­man and is a con­cept a lit­tle dif­fi­cult to de­fine. The tim­ber he uses is in its nat­ural state and he is the only per­son who ac­com­pa­nies it on its voy­age to the final prod­uct. Noth­ing he uses has been ma­nip­u­lated or “worked” be­fore­hand. Wood is a sim­ple and com­plex world as it never ceases being a tree. It is al­ways dif­fer­ent and this pro­vides a lot of lee­way. He likes keep­ing his mind or­ganic, true to na­ture and re­minds us that what comes from na­ture con­veys beauty through sim­plic­ity.

1. Drawknife (in his hands): This tool is very use­ful for peel­ing and prun­ing the lower branches when they are green.

2. Ther­mos: A hot cup of tea is es­sen­tial in the cold months and a good ex­cuse to stop oc­ca­sion­ally.

3. Japan­ese saw: One of the tools that is al­ways pre­sent on the work­bench. The han­dle is longer and the blade is more flex­i­ble and ver­sa­tile than oth­ers.

4. Ma­chete: An­other ver­sa­tile tool for the prepa­ra­tion of the branches.

5. Branches: One of the ma­te­ri­als that I work with most along­side lum­ber and logs I find in the for­est.

6. Bark and kin­dling: this piles up on the work­shop floor after days of peel­ing branches. After clean­ing up, it makes great fire­wood at home.

7.​Wooden mal­let: This was my first cre­ation with wood and de­spite my in­ex­pe­ri­ence it never ceases to amaze me that it is still in one piece.

8. Knife: my jack-of-all-trades for a mil­lion uses in the work­shop and the for­est.

9. Stool:  made from one piece cut from a fir trunk. One of my favourite pieces of fur­ni­ture to make.

10. Scale: made from poplar branches, the scale is one of the things I teach oth­ers to make in  the work­shops in the wild wood car­pen­try work­shops I or­gan­ise. I de­signed it my­self.

11. Chain­saw: apart from hand tools I also use power tools; I use a chain­saw to fash­ion more sculp­tured pieces from trunks.

12. Fire: I work out­doors, so in win­ter a fire is very im­por­tant.

For more in­for­ma­tion about wild­wood work­ing, visit www.​slowfusta.​com

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