Author: Lieuwe

It has been exactly one year since my last blog post. I haven’t posted anything for so long because I was busy working, and then finishing my Research Master. To avoid the temptation of not finishing my studies at all, and just go make things full time, I decided just to not blog at all. Now […]

A Kuksa – or Guksi in Finnish, kåsa in Swedish – is a traditional wooden drinking cup. It is usually made out of birch, usually its burl (a bulbous random growth on the tree). They are quite large, and burl is quite difficult to come by and to carve. I recently got a nice burl to […]

These are some pictures of the spoons I made the last months. Most have a sanded or scraped finish.

Last summer I wrote a post about building a Japanese tool chest, to take some tools with me while traveling. Over the last year I’ve done a lot of green woodworking. I’ve learned a lot about wood and the tools that are needed to turn that wood into things. I’ve carved a bunch of spoons, […]

Some pictures of this summer’s spoon harvest.

This post is mainly to clear a bad backlog of things that were supposed to go on the blog. Some of these things I made as long as 10 months ago, others a few weeks back. They’re not big projects (that’s why it’s another small leather projects post, of course), but I think they’re worth […]

Until now, I mainly used a hatchet, puukko and some spoon knives for carving. I often felt like I was using a cannon to kill a mosquito while using the hatchet, and like I was using a spoon to dig my way through a mountain while using the knives. In short: I missed something in […]