Two bowls/cups from green silver birch

[Baggy]

Walking in my local nature reserve I noticed a silver birch being taken down so I had a chat with the warden and he kindly allowed me to take a branch away.

A week or so later I gathered some tools, froe, axe, large knife and a spoon knife and started work on two bowls.

 

The first step is to split the log into two halves and then start carving with the axe, the axe is used to quickly remove wood and rough out the intended shape. The shape is then refined with the large knife and the spoon knife is used to hollow the bowl.

 

Although the wood was split into two very similar halves the carving produced two very different bowls, the shape, thickness and curvature comes from working with the wood and not against it.

 

 

 

 

 

Mark

Edited June 29, 2011 by Baggy

[Treewarrior]

Brilliant work!

[Big Bolt]

neat work buddy

[geoff]

Very nice Mark,if you are interested pm me a rough price,as I would be happy to buy a couple like that,and only live up the road.

[Daniël Bos]

beautifull, did you carve them straight off the tree then, or was it seasoned first?

[Baggy]

Hiya

 

 

beautifull, did you carve them straight off the tree then, or was it seasoned first?

Thanks, the wood was about a week old, I usually carve green wood.

 

Mark

Hand carved from wood

[toprotter]

Top marks That's wicked !

[##ray##]

they are brilliant baggy , how big are they and how did you get them smooth ? knife or sand paper

[Baggy]

Thanks Ray

 

they are 7" long. I get as close as I can then sand. I am working towards achieving a smooth tooled finish in the future

 

atb

Mark

[Dave D]

fine work.