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Scything and Peening

Course details

Mowing the natural way

Environmentally friendly and offering a full-body workout, scything is enjoying a revival today. More and more hobby gardeners appreciate the scent of freshly cut grass when mown in this traditional way. However, using a scythe properly is a skill that needs to be learned. This course introduces you to peening the blade using either an anvil or a peening jig, sharpening with a whetstone, and setting the snath (the swing arm), before concluding with practical mowing exercises. We work with high-quality scythes by Schröckenfux, although you are welcome to bring your own and use it during the course.

Instructor

Ernst Schoiswohl

As we all know, the best scythes are manufactured in Austria. In the town of Rossleithen in the Upper Austrian Kremstal valley the company Schröckenfux, which has a long tradition, has manufactured tailor-made scythes for 450 years. Who else could teach our participants better how to sharpen and grind scythes and sickles than the qualified foreman Ernst Schoiswohl, who has been working in the worlds most famous scythe smithy for more than 30 years?

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Course locations

A haven for traditional crafts!

A mere 10 minutes drive from our company headquarters in Plattling, it is situated idyllically between the river Danube and the Natural Reserve Bavarian Forest and offers ideal conditions for undisturbed creative work.

The former stable of the Monastery Niederalteich is optimally equipped with

  • Bench room,
  • Turning workshop,
  • Sharpening room,
  • Machine room,
  • Kitchen and Sanitary rooms.

 


DICTUM-Kurswerkstatt
St. Ursulaweg 19
94557 Niederalteich



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Niederalteich

St. Ursula-Weg 19, 94557 Niederalteich,

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