Baggy
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Hi all A friend of a friend heard that I was after green wood and dropped a log off while I was out, so could anyone tell me what wood this is please? It has reddish bark and is sitting on a wheelir bin for scale.
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Hi all Anyone here built a timber work area? if yes any pics? I want to build a pole lathe, which means that I need to do something about my working space. I have an area about 10ft by 12ft which I could build some kind of shelter, it needs to be cheap but robust, I am thinking of a frame covered by tarp. Any woood (maybe fence posts) will have to be purchased as I do not anything here. I wondered if anyone here has built something similar and has pics that I can use for inspiration? Where I currently work... where I can build a shelter ATB
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Hiya The Chestnut log came from a friend and split easily into leg size bits, the top was "chainsaw milled" as you see it from an Oak trunk.
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Hiya Sorry, eggs, sucking and granny come to mind :-( I have only found bark locally that is suitable for combustion or making small knife sheaths There are probably plenty but experience is only with chestnut, used for bench and stool legs. All the best Mark
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Hiya Sadly the birch bark here is not up to canoe building :-( The Canadian (and maybe the scandanavian) is thicker, more flexible than ours (UK) with less faults. Chestnut?
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Hiya The oils in birch bark burn well, scrape some birch bark with the back of a knife until you have a pile of powder/scrapings them throw a spark at it from a fire steel and it flares up beautifully, even if wet. I would guess that the same oils in the bark be a good waterproofer for it. I friend of mine is building a garden shed with wood (looks like a minature tudor building) and using oak shingles from oak. Mark
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Hiya A shame indeed :-( Nice, could you roll it down to me, it is down hill Best wishes Mark
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Hi all I have a business that has pretty much slid down the toilet, customers going bust, customers not paying, customers not spending. So I am trying t see this as an opprtunity to do what I really want to do which is working with green wood. I have joined the Association of polelathe turners and greenwood workers and I am already carving wood. Hand carved from wood My real problem is finding greenwood, I am looking for wood from approx eight inches in diameter up to what I can lift and transport in an estate car. I am happy to collect. The wood I am using most is silver birch but I would love to have some cherry, sycamore, maple, fruitwoods, lime, eucalyptus, holly, beech, ash Can anyone help please? All the best Mark
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Hi Sorry, When I start carving it is with very green wood, I get the carving to as near finished shape as I can, as soon as I can, to stop splitting. A Kuksa I will rough out including the bowl within a day. I then pop it in a carrier bag full of the chipings and leave it in my shed for a few days. Next I start the finishing, which takes me ages, in short sessions over up to a week. I then oil it and when dry I keep it on my desk. A week or two later I sand it with a 400grit paper and re oil. This has worked for me so far Have I missed anything?
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Hi If a carving is for me I use walnut oil as it really works with the wood, I also use sunflower oil. I heat the oil and then immerse the carving in it until the oil cools Ouch
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Just a thought I found that I tended to get cuts when nearing the end of a carving as I was speeding up, keen to see the finished item. Also take breaks tired hands = cut hands. Mark
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Hiya here is a pic of a kuksa that I made Mark
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Hiya So a simple shaped kuksa, as rustic as this or with a smoother finish?
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Hiya 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
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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
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Ta muchly
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Hiya Thanks, the wood was about a week old, I usually carve green wood. Mark Hand carved from wood
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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
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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
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The bloody things are bad new for thatched cottage owners !
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Hiya Fantastic, I can use you as a "worse than me" example
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Some of my favourite trees, part 2 Mark
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Hi All Some of my favourite trees, part 1 Mark
