Latest Blog Posts for Mark Emery - Countryman

• Completed Ash Chair
  on Mar 17, 2014 in ash chair bodger carving chair cleft wood foot stool rustic furniture spoon carving spurtle stick furniture stool woodland furniture
  Completed Ash chair, seat upholstered using hemp webbing, all tenon and leg ends sanded silky smooth, the entire frame was given a couple of good coats of Danish Oil.
• Ash Chair
  on Mar 15, 2014 in ash chair bodger carving chair cleft wood foot stool rustic furniture spoon carving spurtle stick furniture stool woodland furniture
  Ash chair - all parts hand crafted from Ash logs. Legs and stretchers have been made from cleft wood using the draw knife and rounding plane, tenons cut using a tenon cutter. Just needs a tidy and a clean up then it can be upholstered.
• Axe Felling
  on Mar 14, 2014 in axe Bushcraft drawknife GBA Gransfors green wood Hatchet hultafors JLT Knives kepis knife test leather leather sheath mors kochanski SFA Small Forest Axe spoon strop Swedish Carving Axe woodlore
  Felling in a mono culture of Ash with not even as much as a pigeons nest in it,  on the top of the South Downs earlier this week using the traditional axe & saw method, although the tools used, compared to those used in the past, would be consid...
• Cleft Ash Hurdle
  on Feb 17, 2014 in ash hurdle cleft ash hurdle hurdle riven wood sheep hurdle sussex hurdle traditional hurdle
  Cleft Ash hurdle - made today using timber from a small fallen Ash tree that I cut down and made safe yesterday.
• Bullroarer
  on Feb 14, 2014 in archery arrow Ash bow bullroarer Bushcraft crocodile dundee father and son bow flat bow fletching hazel home made bow mors kochanski Ray Mears self bow sussex woodsman willow woodlore
  Bullroarer made from some lovely seasoned Boxwood, hard work to carve, but the end result is worth it, makes one heck of a noise when it is spun around too.
• Willow Bowl
  on Dec 22, 2013 in ash bowl birch kuksa bowl burl carving carving course carving jack green wood working hand carved hand carved bowl kasa kuksa south downs spoon carving course sussex woodsman sycamore bowl wooden bowl
  Willow bowl commission finished this afternoon. The exterior surfaces of the bowl are sanded to 2500 grit, with the exception of the underneath of the end wings which are fluted for grip, the interior of the bowl retains the tool marks per the cust...
• Eating Spoon
  on Dec 4, 2013 in birch carving cherry spoon cooking spoon green wood hand carved spoon hawthorn spoon spoon spoon carving spoon carving course spoons for sale sussex woodsman willow spoon wooden spoon for sale
  Small eating spoon in apple wood, tooled finish.
• Blanks
  on Nov 29, 2013 in birch carving cherry spoon cooking spoon green wood hand carved spoon hawthorn spoon spoon spoon carving spoon carving course spoons for sale sussex woodsman willow spoon wooden spoon for sale
  Roughed out spoon blanks drying off before final fine carving and finishing. The top two are eating spoons, the lower pair are serving spoons, woods used from top to bottom are, Gorse, Apple, Apple & Sycamore.
• Sporks
  on Nov 15, 2013 in birch carving cherry spoon cooking spoon green wood hand carved spoon hawthorn spoon spoon spoon carving spoon carving course spoons for sale sussex woodsman willow spoon wooden spoon for sale
  A few Hazel sporks that ive made of late, really got into making these and thoroughly enjoyed it, the simplicity of carving the flat style of utensil made a pleasant change from the normal cranked handle style of spoon i tend to make these days.
• Sycamore Serving Spoon
  on Nov 15, 2013 in birch carving cherry spoon cooking spoon green wood hand carved spoon hawthorn spoon spoon spoon carving spoon carving course spoons for sale sussex woodsman willow spoon wooden spoon for sale
  Small Sycamore serving spoon, the rough shaping was done with the axe and the refinement with my Ben Orford pick knives, the spoon has an overall tooled finish.

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