Hand carved bowl

[Racers]

Hi, Chaps

Knocked this up from a sycamore tree I felled at the beginning of the year

430mm including the handles and 200mm wide

Mostly hand carved with a bit of bandsaw work to knock some of the big bits off.

Pete

 

[Blister]

That's rather nice Pete

Looks rustic , I like it :lol:

 

[inaspin]

Lovely to see a bowl that isn't round i like it very much.
Berns =D> =D> =D>

 

[xy mosian]

I like that Pete. Well done. A useful object created from local material which might otherwise have been scrap.

xy

 

[mickthetree]

Could you show us the sort of chisels used for the work. Looks excellent. Functional and good looking.

 

[Setch]

lovely. Is this using your homemade spoon knife?

 

[Racers]

Hi, chaps

I used a 1 inch gouge and a 1 1/4 curved gouge to hollow it out, it's a bit big for my spoon knife!
The outside was shaped with a bandsaw, axe, drawknife, spokeshave, card scraper.
I did it in stages as it it was very wet, leaving it to dry a little each time.
It's easy to carve while it's green, and as it drys you can get a better finish.
I didn't sand any part of it it's all finished with shape edges, and a couple of coats of wax.


Pete