Posted in Crafts, Natural Materials, Trees, tagged alder, bur, carving, hatchet, kuksa, spoon gouge, tree on 20/12/2009 | 8 Comments »
I’ve wanted to try and make a large kasa for some time and after an area of trees had been cleared on one of our reserves I found a large bur on an Alder (Alnus glutinosa) stump, which I removed with a chainsaw.
I removed the outer bark and using my Fiskars hatchet cut cut away [...]
Posted in Crafts, Equipment, Tools, tagged carving, kuksa, spoon, spoon gouge, Tools, wooden cup on 20/11/2009 | 1 Comment »
My third recent purchase was a set of interchangeable carving tools made by Flexcut. I bought their quick connect palm handle and then from their range of tools selected four that I thought would be most useful.
Three are from their #6 sweeps and one from their spoon gouges range.
The handle is comfortable to hold and [...]
Posted in Food and Drink, Natural Materials, Trees, tagged carving, crusader cup, drink, fire, food on 05/08/2009 | Leave a Comment »
I have been experimenting and adapting the design of the cup stand over the last couple of days but as Boomer said in his comment “the simplest ones are often the best” and I have decided to stop and just keep it simple, but thought I would show you where I progressed to.
This design fits [...]
Posted in Food and Drink, Hygiene, Natural Materials, Trees, tagged carving, crusader cup, drink, fire, food, Hazel on 02/08/2009 | 5 Comments »
An idea I worked at developing in Lapland was a cooking stand for my Crusader cup. It needed to be a simple design and quick to construct from natural materials. This was my simplest design but works very well.
I cut a piece of Hazel with a branch coming from it, pointed the bottom of the [...]
Posted in Crafts, Natural Materials, Primitive skills, Stone, Tools, Trees, tagged Ash, Bucksaw, carving, flint, hemp on 26/04/2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was keen to test out my new axe so I decided to make a “bucksaw”. My first task was to split a piece of Ash in half
Then I carved the two halves into the required dimensions
and cut the pieces to length beginning with the two uprights
and then a horizontal piece
I used a mortise and [...]
Posted in Crafts, Food and Drink, Natural Materials, Trees, tagged Birch, Bone, carving, kuksa, spoon on 15/04/2009 | 12 Comments »
During the process of constructing the livestock handling facility I had to fell some trees, including this Birch
Using wood from this particular tree I have been busy carving
Notice in the picture above that I use my axe as a “bench stop” to carve against and I have a piece of Hawthorn as a mallet.
I have [...]
Posted in Crafts, Meetups and gatherings, Shelter, Trees, tagged Birch, carving, kuksa, pole bed on 19/08/2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last weekend I was at an annual gathering of green woodworkers at a private woodland in Essex. I arrived Saturday evening and set up my bed.
and was fortunate enough to arrive just in time for the evening meal
The rest of the evening was spent eating, drinking and chatting. It rained heavily Saturday night [...]
Posted in Crafts, Trees, tagged carving, cherry, kuksa on 21/07/2008 | 3 Comments »
You may recall in the past that I have made several items from Cherry wood. Unfortunately there is always a significant risk with Cherry and it’s not one I’m willing to take any more.
I roughed out four of these Cherry cups over the weekend (about 2 hours work for each)
and all four have split!
In [...]
