{"id":2049,"date":"2015-11-05T23:13:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T22:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2025-01-28T13:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T12:08:06","slug":"20151105-carving-my-kuksa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/?p=2049","title":{"rendered":"2015\/11\/05 \u2013 Carving my kuksa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From one of the birch burls I found earlier this month, which has been drying in the garage, I started carving my kuksa.
\nThe previous one cracked when I pored boiling water inside of it.. Won’t do that again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The burl harvesting you can see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tools, my carving set and a set of chisels, and loads of sand paper later on.
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The kuksa as it was.
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Chopping away the rough parts, to see what I can really work with.
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Outlining the kuksa shape. At this stage I avoided the dark brown spot as I wasn’t sure how deep it would go.
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Chiseling the bowl part.
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By going deep, I noticed that the dark brown part didn’t go that deep, so I moved the edge a bit more to the side to gain a bigger cup size. If the dark brown part would not hold, I could still chip down the edge without loosing much depth.
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Cutting away larger chunks with my new opinel saw.
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Lot’s of carving with the carving knife. Trying to use all the right and safe ways. After that lot’s of sanding from rough grid to fine grid..
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Results so far. The right and safe way of carving didn’t work out that safe for me, I had luckily lot’s of band-aids ready.
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Two boils of each 1 hour with very salty water.
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Then 5 days drying. The boiling roughed it up a bit, so lot’s of sanding again.
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First 2 layers of olive oil, and then thick layer of Tung oil, and in between drying.
\nTung oil is a food save oil that leaves a nice hard finish on the wood.
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The final result, i’m very pleased with it !
\nThis kuksa will be added to my cook kit for my hiking trips.
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From one of the birch burls I found earlier this month, which has been drying in the garage, I started carving my kuksa. The previous one cracked when I pored boiling water inside of it.. Won’t do that again. The burl harvesting you can see here. The tools, my carving set and a set of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2049","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diy-projects","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4607,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/4607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}