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Great work. What a lovely piece of wood, too.

Thanks very much indeed. Looking forward to seeing yours!

The milk treatment worked really well for me (I gave details in that thread). To a certain extent, anyone who drinks hot coffee with milk from their kuksa treats their vessel by so doing (which would help to explain why some people find that their kuksa stops leaking after a few coffees), but...

Cheers once again. :) I applied a bit of superglue to the cracks yesterday and sanded. A few cups of hot winter cider later and not a peep out of them - which I'm delighted with. Just had a drop of Aberlour from it. Fantastic. Seems to be seasoning well - still a little oil visible on the top...

Thanks! Was curious to see how it would turn out. There's obviously so much heritage to the method, but having skim (no pun intended) read some rather intimidating scientific papers on casein that Google turned up (science never was my strong point), it would appear that it is resistant to...

Just had a go at this on my new kuksa, John. Like yours, it has darkened a bit.

Firstly, thanks so much for the kind words. They mean a lot, especially given the standard of many around here! :) Secondly, I had a go at a milk treatment this evening. I didn't immerse it and boil for two hours (though I did do this with one of my spoons a few days ago, and it seems to have...

Just my most recent piece. It's basically a kuksa, at least in a broad sense. I started this one at a Scout event in May and wanted to get it done by the close of the year. The wood is ash. Originally it was going to be a fairly conventional kuksa design, but it had a very large crack which...

Good good! Does it taint at all? I used to get a bit of surface (walnut) oil with my last whisky vessel, at least the first few times as I recall.

Great to read your results, John. Looks very nice. Out of interest, what have you drank out of it so far?

Thanks for the suggestions, all... It won't be long now, thankless task though carving seasoned ash is! I have to say, I really like the propolis vanish idea. Back when I was at school, I spent many happy hours at the school apiary. Money's a bit tight right now so I don't have a lot to spend...

Hi folks, Been a while. Thought I'd get some thoughts on finish. Currently working on an ash kuksa that's nearly done (only started it in April...), so I'm thinking about what to finish it with. Normally I use regular walnut oil, but since I intend to use this to drink malt from (primarily if...

Beautiful work. I love the understated beauty of birch.

Looks fun! I'm a guitar player myself. Distinctly BC Rich-esque, but with some homespun character. I love doing simple woodwork activities with my Scouts and others at county events (eg. woggles), and so many of them just don't know how to whittle [is going to the woods with a penknife old hat...

I made the cup in about February this year having picked up the wood on Boxing Day and I kept it (in the absence of an alternative!) in my living room, so it was pretty dry when I made it. When I left it for a few minutes I filled it with water, which I'm now guessing I shouldn't have... But...

We certainly do. I was hoping he'd offer his wisdom... But perhaps that's it I suppose. I had wondered, but generally I don't see this kind of thing come up much (on places like this) regarding finished items. Drink from it (and some people make hot drinks in cups with oil finishes), wash it...

Hi all. Been a while... Some of you might remember that I made a cup some months ago from a piece of silver birch. I've been enjoying my drams from it ever since. On Wednesday I had a tipple from it, and afterwards I put water in it and left it a few minutes (no particular reason why), before...

I initially read the thread title as '[...] a bit like partridge', and came in here expecting some abstract comparison with Alan. Nice work, though!

Nice! I worked in a postroom at a British military establishment recently, and one thing I will say is that you should pack it up very well! That is, if stuff the main depot sends out gets treated anything like internal defence mail (it all goes to the same place initially). We would regularly...

Do it! I've made more woggles than anything else (even if that's mainly because I don't own an axe...). Really easy to do and they look great. I ran it as an activity with my Troop, and I did it at a big county event as well. In both cases the lads (and lasses) produced some decent results...