A Countrymans Blog - Green Wood Carving - Traditional Crafts & Skills.
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Tags: Bushcraft, Spoon Carving, Country Skills, Traditional Crafts, Green Wood Work
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Latest Blog Posts for Mark Emery - Countryman
- Completed Ash ChairCompleted 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 ChairAsh 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 FellingFelling 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 Hurdleon Feb 17, 2014 in ash hurdle cleft ash hurdle hurdle riven wood sheep hurdle sussex hurdle traditional hurdleCleft Ash hurdle - made today using timber from a small fallen Ash tree that I cut down and made safe yesterday.
- BullroarerBullroarer 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 BowlWillow 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 SpoonSmall eating spoon in apple wood, tooled finish.
- BlanksRoughed 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.
- SporksA 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 SpoonSmall 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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