Couple of Lumps Of Sycamore

[Kepis]

Made from a lump of Sycamore i got about ten days or so ago

First up small bowl, exterior is basically done, still need to work on the interior surface a bit

Second one is a Kuksa ive been playing around with for a week or more, i had initially sanded the exterior surface but really didnt like it, so this afternoon, with nothing better to do, i added a tooled finish, which i much prefer

Both items made using adze, axe, straight & crooked knives

 

[Tat2trev]

ace work bud thats the standard i would love too reach .ONE DAY!!!!!!!!!

 

[crosslandkelly]

Lovely work, I really like the kuksa.

 

[Hugo]

Tooled finish is super Kepis mate.
Makes me want to get in the workshop and make one myself.

 

[Niels]

Nice bits of carving. Thanks for sharing

 

[Toddy]

Lovely work Looks 'right' somehow

I like sycamore for my kitchen ware; it's clean, washes well, doesn't taint, doesn't split, fine grained; excellent for the job.

cheers,
M

 

[BJJJ]

very nice

 

[Albus Culter]

Very nice work. That bowl looks stunning. Sycamore does give lovely light grain detail.

 

[Kepis]

Cheers people

 

[kodiakjoe]

really nice work Kepis, that tooled finish looks great!

 

[Harvestman]

Dammit, my tooled finishes would currently be better (and quicker) if I just gave the wood to the dog to chew. And then you post up something like this.


Lovely work as always.

 

[Captaincrash]

Very nice! I like the tooled finish very much!


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[Kepis]

Cheers guys

Dammit, my tooled finishes would currently be better (and quicker) if I just gave the wood to the dog to chew. And then you post up something like this.

Sooorry uppy_doguppy_doguppy_doguppy_dog

 

[Harvestman]

I suppose I'll just have to practice some more...

 

[dougoutcanoe]

Lovely pieces of work. I do like the tool marks much more than smooth.

Doug

 

[Kepis]

I suppose I'll just have to practice some more...

that's all ive done and do, to get the finish all i do is make hundreds if not thousands of tiny cut's always working on a ridge between two previous cuts and each time all i do i do is just take off the ridge, of course 1 ridge then becomes two, two becomes four etc etc etc, but keep at it and in next to no time you will get the tooled finish

 

[Rockmonkey]

Beauiful work as always mate, that tooled finish is really beginning to grow on me!
You are gonna have to teach me how to not kcuf up a Kuksa round a camp fire on bimble day!

RM

 

[Dreadhead]

nice work like the chipping here

 

[Two Socks]

Brilliant! I especially like the bowl. Very elegant.

 

[Kepis]

Beauiful work as always mate, that tooled finish is really beginning to grow on me!
You are gonna have to teach me how to not kcuf up a Kuksa round a camp fire on bimble day!

RM

tis easy - honest, me thinks up to the old barn, get a bonnie and a brew on and spend a day making Kuksa's - how's that sound?