Glaucus' wood carving thread (spoons etc)

Hmmm. I've just noticed this thread and am looking at doing woodturning at some point. Any good pattern / plan places that you know about?
 
This site
http://www.bushcraft.ridgeonnet.com/Kuksa tutorial.htm


And youtube is very good.
Wranglerstar for knife and axe sharpening videos. And he does a lot of other interesting stuff.
http://m.youtube.com/#/user/wranglerstar


Also Ben Orford, again good for sharpening videos.
Walks through a lot of wood working, axe handles, spoons etc.
http://m.youtube.com/user/BenOrford

Ben Orford is the one I watched to learn how to carve a spoon.

Need to stop spending money on gadgets and get some reeds for weaving.


The two more advanced projects I've seen, which one day I can dream of being able to do is canoe http://www.bushcraft.ridgeonnet.com/sof-skin-on-frame-canoe-3.htm


And FlatBow ( I like lesser heard stuff, hence that over long bow)
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/downloads/pdf/Carving-an-Ash-Flat-Bow.pdf
 
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I'm subscribed to Alex Harris' channel and Blair Davis'. I've mad a start by building a woodworking shed from scratch. I've chosen rough sawn timber and screwed it together with loglap. I'm pretty proud of it as I managed to topple off the ladder onto the roof and instead of going right through, the thing stayed solid :D I've also got a lathe, bandsaw, chop saw, benchsaw and a myriad gouges and other power tools to start me off. Am going to join a woodworking group when I get back from holiday.

Cheers for the sites Glaucus.
 
started roughing out the shape for a Kuksa Cup today, its now wrapped in a damp towel, hopefully it wont dry out to much over the weekend. off all next week, other than a meeting Tuesday afternoon.

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and if you want to know what a properly expert one should look like
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Good work Glaucus. My partner spent a couple of weeks with Mike Abbot (http://www.living-wood.co.uk/) a couple of years ago making a stool and chair.

Glaucus said:
Also Ben Orford, again good for sharpening videos.
Walks through a lot of wood working, axe handles, spoons etc.
http://m.youtube.com/user/BenOrford

Ben Orford is the one I watched to learn how to carve a spoon.
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Ben's great - we got our bowl turning hook tools from him. Pop into his workshop if you get a chance, he's got a great set up there!
 
thanks, I don't suppose you have any idea on a knife do you?
I want a heavy knife to use a bit like an axe, for chopping rather than cutting. for roughing out the shape, when the axe gets a bit to imprecise.

would love to go on a chair course, even better would be a shaving horse course (building one).
 
When I saw the gash in your leg, I burst out laughing because it reminded me of the kid in Bad Santa :D

Glad it wasn't too deep! Looks mighty painful.

Great looking spoons :)
 
At my snails pace I reckon about 10-12 hours work. That took about two hours for me, I expect an experienced person would get to that stage in about 10-15 mins.
 
Out of interest how big was the block of wood you started with and where did you pick it up from?

My in laws have a caravan in wales and i bought a whittling knife for when we went down but i struggled to find any decent looking bits of wood that weren't rotted.
 
You could use a mallet and chisel to remove the bulk. A decent chisel like a marples, sharpened to a mirror finish would easily remove the bulk and be more accurate than an axe.

I guess that wouldn't be bushcraft though? The finished item doesn't look rough enough to have just used bushcraft tools.
 
Marvt74 said:
Out of interest how big was the block of wood you started with and where did you pick it up from?

My in laws have a caravan in wales and i bought a whittling knife for when we went down but i struggled to find any decent looking bits of wood that weren't rotted.
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The small stuff for the spoons is easy enough, just walk around some woods and find storm damaged stuff.
The bow is about 6" diameter, dad volunteers on reopening and maintaining canals. They chop a lot down, so I put an order in.

Mark A said:
You could use a mallet and chisel to remove the bulk. A decent chisel like a marples, sharpened to a mirror finish would easily remove the bulk and be more accurate than an axe.

I guess that wouldn't be bushcraft though? The finished item doesn't look rough enough to have just used bushcraft tools.
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This is more bushcraft than wood work, so as few tools as possible.
 
After a long time off and the bowl cracking as it dried, got bored tonight and did a small teaspoon, in 70mins.
Went wood hunting today and got some bigger bits, such a shame i dont have a chainsaw, theres a downed oak, i would like some 4ft diamter slices from. No one else will toouch it, but it is just 10meters of a popular path.
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Rough axe work done
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Knife work
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Hook knife
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Need to let it dry for a few days, sand and oil.
 
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Mark A said:
You could use a mallet and chisel to remove the bulk. A decent chisel like a marples, sharpened to a mirror finish would easily remove the bulk and be more accurate than an axe.

I guess that wouldn't be bushcraft though? The finished item doesn't look rough enough to have just used bushcraft tools.
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Get yourself a good drawknife, you can get them with a straight or curve blade.

Brilliant tool for quickly reducing wood to required size.
 
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