{"id":3077,"date":"2020-05-15T20:33:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T18:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?p=3077"},"modified":"2021-01-12T08:55:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T07:55:54","slug":"carving-a-kuksa-from-spalted-birch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/?p=3077","title":{"rendered":"Carving a kuksa from spalted birch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Whenever I&#8217;m in the forest to walk my dog or for a day hike, and I see a nice piece of a blown over tree or dead fall, <br>I have the tendency to take it home.<br>This habit already provided me with many nice pieces of birch and other wood sorts.<br><br> For the kuksa I planned to use birch, so I cut this piece of the log, and to my pleasant surprise it was spalted already.<br> Using the bandsaw I made a nice rectangular piece from it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa01-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3064\" data-link=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?attachment_id=3064\" class=\"wp-image-3064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa01-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa01-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa01-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa01.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa02-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3065\" data-link=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?attachment_id=3065\" class=\"wp-image-3065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa02-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa02-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa02-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa02.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa03-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3066\" data-link=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?attachment_id=3066\" class=\"wp-image-3066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa03-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa03-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa03-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa03.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Next step is all with hand tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa04-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3067\" data-link=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?attachment_id=3067\" class=\"wp-image-3067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa04-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa04-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa04-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa04.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa05-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3068\" data-link=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?attachment_id=3068\" class=\"wp-image-3068\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa05-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa05-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa05-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa05.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa06-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3069\" data-link=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?attachment_id=3069\" class=\"wp-image-3069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa06-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa06-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa06-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa06.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>When all done, I was doubting of coloring the oil or not. (with foodgrade coloring stuff)<br>This because using just oil like natural boiled linseed oil (food save), or tung oil or kitchen cutting plank oil, it always makes the wood yellowish, and for some reason I was looking for something else.<br>I made from the bandsaw leftovers some test pieces.<br>Left with red, middle natural, and right green.<br>I chose to go with red.<br>Also with the kolrossing technique I put the letter B in the handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa07-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3070\" data-link=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?attachment_id=3070\" class=\"wp-image-3070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa07-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa07-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa07-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa07.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa08-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3071\" data-link=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?attachment_id=3071\" class=\"wp-image-3071\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa08-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa08-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa08-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa08.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa09-600x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"3072\" data-link=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?attachment_id=3072\" class=\"wp-image-3072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa09-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa09-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa09-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kuksa09.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It didn&#8217;t turn out they way I hoped it would be, and the next day I decided to send it all off as much as possible, and just go with the plain old standard look.<br>I wasn&#8217;t able to get the red color away from the bottom of the kuksa, but that&#8217;s fine.<br>A small reminder of this test is no problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 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