Kuksa from greenCherry wood.

[Baggy]

I have been looking at kuksa's, Swedish traditional drinking cups, many of these hand made kuksa's are very beautiful, inspired I carved my first Kuksa from Cherry wood.The Kusa is quite small the bowl being only four inches on the long side, the whole Kuksa is seven inches long. Holds a good amount of brandy :-)

 

 

The wood was a joy to carve with the colours suited to the Kuksa, the lines of the Kuksa were easily found in the wood. Here is the Kusa before being oiled.

 

 

The wood was first reduced and rough shaped by hand axe, then I worked with two wonderful carving tools from Dorset Woodland Blades, the blades are easy to sharpen to very, very sharp allowing me to concentrate on the carving.

 

 

Mark

[toprotter]

Nothing 'baggy' with your work !

[Baggy]

Nothing 'baggy' with your work !

 

 

Ta muchly

[Gav_A]

Lovely piece of carving. Last time I tried to carve a kuksa, i severed the tendon on the back of my thumb. Have been too scared to try again. You may have inspired me to give it another go. Nice work.

[Chris Sheppard]

Nice work.

 

Always fancied having a go at doing one of those but never got round to it.

[slack ma girdle]

That is a thing of beauty.

[Baggy]

Hiya

 

Lovely piece of carving. Last time I tried to carve a kuksa, i severed the tendon on the back of my thumb. Have been too scared to try again. You may have inspired me to give it another go. Nice work.

Ouch, nasty.

 

I think that the key to safety is to be afraid of pain!

use a green wood like birch and use very sharp tools :-)

 

I get my blades fron FGYT (Duncan) at Dorset woodland blades, he can be found on the British Blades forum.

 

I know a guy that wears a kevlar carving glove but as a lot of my carving around camp fires the glove seems not to fit the mood.

 

I would suggest patience, go slow, plan each cut and look for the line thatf the blade will take if you overshoot, as you would with the axe.

 

ATB

Mark

[Dave D]

very good work baggy.

[Gav_A]

Thanks for the advice Baggy. I will try and look up that guy and purchase some good quality knives and give the kuksa another go.

 

Cheers again and here's hoping i'm more successful this time, Ha

[Beardie]

Very impressive, Baggy. What sort of oil do you use and how do you apply it? Someone of my acquaintance immersed his totally in molten beeswax and found he'd overdone it slightly.