Baggy

Thanks again for the advice, it's now super sharp - can shave the hairs off my arm with it!!

Hiya

Thanks for looking :-)

Do not have your e-mail on display have the contact page so the customer has to submit their details to you,

I will have a go at working out how to do that.

Hiya

I quite like it, nice clean and simple design. First thing I did though was try to click on the images down the left hand side....you should really hyperlink these IMO

Thank you for taking the time to look, I have added linking the photos to my, growing, list of edits.

Hi all

I am building a web site for my carvings and with the wide range of people in here I hoped that some web/ecommerce saavy people could check it out for me?

I would appreciate comments and critiques

The test site is here;

Mark Baigent green wood carving

Ta muchly

Lovely work :-)

Hiya

I don't know much about pyrography but I like that :-)

Hiya

Thanks for that bud. Got myself a mora hook knife but it came with a rubbish edge, will have a go at getting it good with this method! Do you wet the wet & dry?

The Mora hook knife is not a great knife but with some work sharpening it it will do the job nicely. The Mora 106 is a very good knife.

I do not wet the "wet and dry", slowly and carefully is best, enjoy the sharpening process :-)

Hiya

What do you use to keep your knives as sharpe as when you first got them?

I use pieces of wood 8" x 2" x 1" with "wet and dry" glued to them,

grades 800, 1000, 1200, 1500.

Then holding the blade in place I run the wet and dry along the bevel and then the other side of the blade working up the grades.

For the inside of curved blades the "wet and dry" is glued to dowels.

I finish with a leather stropping, using wood and dowels again.

Lovely work on all your posts!

Ta muchly

still didn't answer the question. "where did you get your hook Knives"? only interested because i need to get some more.

Oops sorry

Ben Orford or if you like to put your own handles on as I do then Nic Westerman makes great blades

Bushcraft Knives, Handmade Knives & Carving Tools from Ben Orford

Nic Westermann

Nice work, do you carve green wood or must it be seasoned?

Thanks, the wood was carved green with hand tools, axe, adze and knives.

This piece of cherry was carved about five months after the tree was felled.

Hiya

Very nice baggy.

The top 6 are very similar to the style that Jon Mac carves in, do you follow his blog??

I know Jons work well and wanted to try the Scandinavian stlye that he works with. I do follow his blog and we also bump into each other on facebook.

The curved down handles are surprisingly difficult to carve because there is so much cross grain cutting.

I like and will develop the salmon tail style, bottom right. But I also plan to delevop the style top right with a more solid handle.

The handle on the last image is also worth working up.

Hiya

As always very nice!

Thanks :-)

I am working on developing a style and it seems I have to see what does not work to understand what does. I think from the batch above I can see two styles developing :-)

7 kuksa in 7 days in different styles ...........

that was the plan but it actually took 12 days, must get quicker.

I would appreciate your thoughts on the styles.

Hi all

Just finished this...

Just carved this canoe cup, I need to make a hole in the handle but do I go through the knot or next to the knot..........

Brilliant, what a treasure for her to keep for ever

Lovely work, beautiful wood

Hi

The mora carving blades are good, the 106 and the 120. Their spoon knives not so great.

I like to put my own handles on blades and these blades ate very good

Nic Westermann

Try Bushcraft Knives, Handmade Knives & Carving Tools from Ben Orford his blades are great but they come ready handled

Hiya

Well done Baggy, they are truly beautiful. Thanks for sharing them.

Fancied having a go for quite sometime, but:

 

Do a course or just give it a go?

Thanks, I did not do any course but it is probably a good idea.... and might have saved me a fortune in plasters and buying the wrong tools.

The best guy by far for training is Robin Fawcett, Green Woodworking with the Treewright

He will customise courses to what ever you want to do.

Very nice work,and presentation too Mark

Thanks Geoff :-)

Hi

Are these carved out of green wood? Wouldn't mind doing that sort of thing myself . What too

The wood is green ie the birch was felled a month or so ago, the cherry is about six months old.

Tools, Gransfors axe, small carver knife and a spoon knife

Thanks Marko :-)

Hi all

I have had the sharps out, axe and knife.

Small kuksa

Cherry spoon

Birch spoon

Cherry spreader

Search ebay for a silicone 1 3/4" to 2" reducer bend and a 2 1/4" to 2" reducer bend, bit of 2" pipe in between and you're sorted.

thanks, i will pass that on

If there's not quite enough space between the two contact this lot, they'll be able to make you thanks........

 

.......................i contacted them and they quoted £500+

Hi

go in to ur local agriculture spares place (not ur large main dealership type but your cheap any part fits kinda place!) and say have u got something to match this. Or failing that you can get convoluted replacement radiator hose and u'd probably find u'd get a size to squeeze over the one end and tighten down the other with a jubilee clip or two.

Thanks Mike the guy has tried that approach with no luck, the two ninty degree turns happen in such a short space that the things that he has tried so far do not work. I am sure that he will eventually find a something that will adapt but it seems worth looking for the correct componant as well.