a kuksa for mrs fish

[fishfish]

and yep its gonna be a kuksa! this one will be a christmas prezzy for mrs fish. the grain and spalting on this piece is really fine ,for the handle i will carve a beech leaf,i saw a birch burl kuksa on my kuksa flikr group with a birch leaf for a handle,and was very impressed by it!

thanks for looking.

 

[JonathanD]

Piccy not working Fish.

 

[bilmo-p5]

Pic's fine here.

 

[dave53]

hi love to see the finished piece regards dave

 

[JonathanD]

Yeah, working now. Keep us updated.

 

[Pikebite]

Should look good but just for your information that's not spalting its bark inclusions.

 

[BarryG]

Good luck with that mate. I fancy having crack at making one myself, so I'm interested to see how it turns out. Keeps us posted.

 

[fishfish]

thanks guys.

 

[fishfish]

and here is the finished project,took a while but i recon its worth it,finished this one recently,its made from beech burl that i found local to me ,the leaf inspiration came from http://spooncarvingfirststeps.blogspot.co.uk/ my atmpts are not as refined as his for sure!

thanks for looking.

 

[Harvestman]

Amazing. Wonderful work, and a beautiful bit of wood.

She will love it.

 

[fishfish]

lol hope so,she's waited long enough!

 

[TinkyPete]

Great work Fish, very nicely done

 

[Androo]

My word that is gorgeous!!

 

[dancan]

Nice piece !

 

[Gill]

Fantastic Fish that is a beauty buddy!

 

[the interceptor boy]

That will be Mr Mac, a very nice spoon carver from Devon and he is from this Parish as well. Very nice work Mr fish and a lovely pressie for the Lovely Mrs fish, nice one .
Cheers the interceptor boy.

 

[Mick w.]

I'm exceedingly jealous (in a good way!).
I tried to start my very first kuksa today, having found a nice bit of birch log yesterday morning whilst out with the dogs before work. I couldn't find a suitable bit of oak to make a splitting wedge without lopping off a biggish branch from a tree and I didn't want to do that, so I opted for a bit of holly as I read somewhere that that is hard - hard to chop into a workable wedge maybe!
Anyway, the upshot of it all is that I eventually did my log splitting with a bolster and chisel; now I have to smooth out the workable face (do I have to get rid of all the middle bit - may be a small kuksa, this one!) and chop it round.
Lessons learnt so far; try and find a nice stable platform for chopping on, and try and cut your logs square ended so they balance easier.
Not everything is as easy as it looks on Youtube.
It really is worth taking the time to choose the right bit of log for any given project...

 

[udamiano]

I like that a lot, very good work there.

 

[brancho]

THats a real beauty mate who would not be pleased with that.

 

[dwardo]

Very pretty indeed, excellent work.