Not posted much on here so thought I'd rectify that by showing some of my treen carvings.
First is this Voyageurs style belt cup or canoe cup. I carved it from Wild Cherry or Gean as I know it by and it features a tooled finish i.e. straight off the knife with no sandpaper used. I plaited jute garden twine for the lanyard and carved a matching barrel toggle.
Next up is a Kuksa carved from very hard Norway maple and again, no sandpaper was used in the finishing yet it is very smooth to touch. Antler toggle on the braided twine this time. That's not a split but some bark like growth and the cup is hot liquid tight.
My first Kuksa in Birch from my own tree. You can see the marks and discolourations of heavy use. No sand paper again.
A bowl this time in part-rotted Hawthorn which came from a dead-standing tree that the council had just taken down. The colour has gone way dark and the splits were already there so a natural, rustic tooled finish suits it best. My wife uses it to keep the bananas separate from the other fruit.
Eating spoons in various woods. The leftmost three are tooled finish and the rest fine sanded.
More eating spoons. All tooled finish bar the fine-sanded Birch one in the middle.
Tea spoons of all shapes and sizes - the middle one is my favourite for yoghurt! Some sanded, some not.
Salad serving pair in Rowan which are finely sanded.
Mahoosive serving spoons - you could fend off burglars with these! Dark one is tooled Beech which has gone all marbled and the light one is fine sanded Goat Willow from the shores of Loch Doon, gathered on a paddling trip last year.
Long handled eating bowl partly inspired by the Voyageur style cups and Ojibwa eating bowls. Nothing like either really but that's because I'm nowhere near as good as them! Tooled Birch is the flavour this time and I've gone for a braided, colours of the Earth Twine lanyard with matching Birch wiggly worm toggle. The handle of the bowl when viewed from the side is supposed to represent a Red Kite's beak and eye with the notches giving a feather-like appearance. I know, I know, keep to the simple stuff!
Lastly, a drainage spoon in fine-sanded Beech on the left and a fine-sanded marbled and spalted Sycamore cooking spoon on the right.
Thanks for looking folks.
Graeme
First is this Voyageurs style belt cup or canoe cup. I carved it from Wild Cherry or Gean as I know it by and it features a tooled finish i.e. straight off the knife with no sandpaper used. I plaited jute garden twine for the lanyard and carved a matching barrel toggle.
Next up is a Kuksa carved from very hard Norway maple and again, no sandpaper was used in the finishing yet it is very smooth to touch. Antler toggle on the braided twine this time. That's not a split but some bark like growth and the cup is hot liquid tight.
My first Kuksa in Birch from my own tree. You can see the marks and discolourations of heavy use. No sand paper again.
A bowl this time in part-rotted Hawthorn which came from a dead-standing tree that the council had just taken down. The colour has gone way dark and the splits were already there so a natural, rustic tooled finish suits it best. My wife uses it to keep the bananas separate from the other fruit.
Eating spoons in various woods. The leftmost three are tooled finish and the rest fine sanded.
More eating spoons. All tooled finish bar the fine-sanded Birch one in the middle.
Tea spoons of all shapes and sizes - the middle one is my favourite for yoghurt! Some sanded, some not.
Salad serving pair in Rowan which are finely sanded.
Mahoosive serving spoons - you could fend off burglars with these! Dark one is tooled Beech which has gone all marbled and the light one is fine sanded Goat Willow from the shores of Loch Doon, gathered on a paddling trip last year.
Long handled eating bowl partly inspired by the Voyageur style cups and Ojibwa eating bowls. Nothing like either really but that's because I'm nowhere near as good as them! Tooled Birch is the flavour this time and I've gone for a braided, colours of the Earth Twine lanyard with matching Birch wiggly worm toggle. The handle of the bowl when viewed from the side is supposed to represent a Red Kite's beak and eye with the notches giving a feather-like appearance. I know, I know, keep to the simple stuff!
Lastly, a drainage spoon in fine-sanded Beech on the left and a fine-sanded marbled and spalted Sycamore cooking spoon on the right.
Thanks for looking folks.
Graeme
