Best Wood To Carve A Cup
best wood to carve a cup
Feb 4, 2020 - carved drinking cups etc. see more ideas about wood carving, carving, wood spoon.. Fresh wood is softer and thus easier to carve than dried wood. if you don't have the time to carve the burl immediatly, cover it with bees wax or polyurethane glue to slow the drying process. fast drying will surely split the wood, and destroy the burl.. A kuksa is a wooden cup of finish origin, they are usually carved from a burl of a birch tree. this is where the tree has grown in response to damage or stress and is rounded in shape. unfortunately i don't live in an area where birch are all that common and couldn't find any burls on other pieces of wood..
best wood to carve a cup
Also it was not carved out of a birch burl but i like the word kuksa and it was carved out of a hornbeam burl at least. after cutting the burl section from the fallen tree i left it to season for 3 years in a cold but dry area (my garage). i wanted to create a kuksa that had the swirl of the burl wood and the clean lines of the heart wood.. Using my knife i then carved the cup into shape, with burl wood there are often hidden faults in the wood, so i did change the style slightly as i went along, remembering to always leave more wood than i needed. the carving was done quickly while the wood was still green because it is a lot easier to carve:.
