Fathers day blade

Hi all

My daughter brought me a one inch blade, from Nic Westerman, for fathers day. 

I carved a handle from yew and put the blade into it. 

The handle was finished with Danish oil.

The blade will be used for finishing very tight curves and carving fine detail.

The blade is very very sharp :-)

I love fathers day.

Maple burr kuksa

Hi all

A friend kindly gave me a maple log which had a few burr's.

I removed the burr's

From the largest burr I carved a kuksa
The wood was difficult to carve with the grain changing direction a lot!

 

Chiefs, bog, stargazer, watchmans, two plank chair

Chiefs chair, bog chair, stargazer chair, watchmans chair, two plank chair are just a few names for the chair below.

As a design for a chair it is simple, surprisingly comfortable and found in different cultures around the world. When taken apart it is easy to store, taking up little room.

I guess that making it is not strictly carving but I did only use hand tools.

The wood is seasoned oak.

 

 

 

Hand carved Cherry bowl

A kind local arborist felled a Cherry tree nearby and he dropped of a piece for me to carve. Cherry is a beautiful wood but can be frustrating to work because of its tendancy to split. This piece behaved well and allowed me to carve a bowl from it.

I started with an adze to remove a lot of wood and then I switched knives for the shaping, finished with sanding and then oiling.

Seven kuksa

I have be working on carving different styles of kuksa, the first kuksa shows a tooled finish and is not oiled, the others are sanded for smoothness and oiled with food grade linseed oil. Fellow carvers always prefer the tooled finish but I am buyers seem to prefer the sanded finish. I would be very interested to receive comments...