Whenever trees are cut down or heavily pruned, I try to get some nice bits to carve. One of my neighbours was cutting down a young pencil cedar a few weeks back, and I got this beautiful branch.
On our way to our holiday destination in the south of Slovakia, my girlfriend an I visited Dictum last summer. I think it’s the largest store for traditional tools and supplies, located in southern Bavaria. Judging by the prestige and fame of this shop, I was hoping for a massive store to wander through for […]
My girlfriend made this wallet. I have no pictures of the making process because I wasn’t planning on blogging about it. But it turned out so nice that I just had to show it. Plus, I made the leather strap and put on the buttons, so I can brag a little too.
As I said in my post about a leather case for my essential leatherworking tools, I’ll be doing some travelling soon, and I want to take some of my tools with me. For this, I made a lightweight, Japanese-inspired toolbox. It’s made out of tulipwood (or yellow poplar, liriodendron tulipiferia), which is not native to […]
A lot of things have happened since my last blog post. I earned my Bachelor’s degree, went to Rome for a week and was admitted to the Master’s programme I applied for, to name a few. This is the reason I have not posted anything for a while. I have made some stuff that I […]
These are some kitchen utensils – two spatula’s and a shallow spoon – I carved last week. The wood came from a big oak log that I’m slowly but surely turning into a hewing bench. More on that soon. I made a little video of how I carve a spatula:
This is my first spoon. I carved it last week from a piece of cleft oak from the log that I’m building a hewing bench out of. There’ll be a post on that very soon.
