Carving a Kuksa
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- Опубликовано: 20 апр 2019
- #carvingakuksa #woodcarving #kuksa Here is a day I spent in the woods, sourcing raw materials for some green wood carving, its a journey!
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For cracks, the thinner the walls the less likely it is to get worse or crack altogether. Don’t leave your kuksa to dry in the sun, leave it to dry in a cool, dark place. If the cracks do get worse, you can fill them with beeswax and treat the bowl with it as well and use your kuksa for cold drinks instead of hot drinks (if the cracks are massive, you can also carve a stick to fill the crack). I always rub the bowl of my kuksas with boiled linseed oil since it’s a curing oil(fills, dries into the pores) but the outside with beeswax and really let it get into the wood, haven’t had a problem since.
Hope this helps.
Really nice work by the way!
Thank you very much! I have thinned out the walls since the video was shot and it's currently drying slowly in a bag full of wood shavings. Lets hope for the best! Take care👍
Some say boiled linseed contains chemical drying agent that you may not want to eat. Food grade flax (linseed) oil is available in health food stores.
Yes it's always important to use food grade oils, thanks very much!👍
Another Excellent Video Wade I liked it very much , Happy Easter to you and family my friend see ya on the next one ☕️😉👍🏼🏕🍂🍃🍁🔥⛺️🌲🌿🌾🌱🛶🐛
Thank you so much my friend, I hope you enjoy your holiday weekend as well!😁🌞🌲🌷⛺🍻
Great video very detailed ! The birch seems like an excellent carving wood.
Thanks very much! Birch is my favorite wood to carve. Take care and thanks for watching my friend 👍
Great video. For cracks you can use pine sap. Warm it up and fill the cracks from the outside. Once cooled use beeswax to cover the filled cracks also from the outside. I have had success with this, even for hot liquids.
Excellent tips thanks very much Derek. I'm hoping the cracks dont get bigger. Im drying it now in a bag full of woodchips outdoors. I'll show the end results when it's done. 👍
Hey brother Wade! Awesome video! Beautiful job on the Kuksa.. You are one gifted hombre.. Thanks for sharing! Have a blessed one~
Great to see you friend, excellent video 👍👊
Thanks my friend always great to hear your comment!👍
Great job Wade! 👍🏽
Thanks Nelson! It's all done now and the cracks haven't gotten any bigger so that's a good thing
Whether it holds coffee or not we will wait and see! 👍
Great looking! 👍👍
Thank you my friend!👍
Wow that turned out good. Good work, good video. 👍
Thank you very much, unfortunately it did crack when hot liquids were added to it but I have since carved some new ones!👍 Thanks for watching!
That wedge is a good idea.
Thank you!👍
Nice job! I love the size of it... fun hobby
Thanks very much, it's almost ready to oil and see if it hold coffee!
Nice job! Nice fire place! Greetz from Belgium!!!
Thank you very much my friend!Greetings from Canada!🍻
Great work, Wade. Kuksa looks brilliant, I like the rough, carved out look. I'll keep my fingers crossed that the cracks don't worsen. Thanks for sharing buddy. The view of your back yard looks awesome, and no traffic noise either. Take care, buddy.
Thanks Andy, so far the cracks arent getting worse.
I'm drying it slowly in a plastic bag. Take care, Wade🍻
You have the beginning of a proper kuksa mate. I hope you're having a blessed day, and a blessed week ahead. Peace out!
Thank you so much Doug. I wish you the same!✌😁
So relaxing watching you carve up that Kuska... Love your backyard and fire pit!
You might want to go back and saw off some more blanks off that birch... It sure
seemed to carve nicely and looked like perfect grain with minimal knots. TFS
That's a good idea, I'll be heading out for a few more blanks for sure. Thanks for watching buddy!👍
I looked at these very same tools this morning on amazon before running across your video. I plan to try carving a cup soon. Thanks for your instructions on how to go about it. Butch form Texas
I still use the same kit with a few additions. Very good value!
Nice...I really like those rough looking kuksas. They look like real "users".
Thanks for watching! It's still a work in progress, I made a few changes and its drying out. Lots of fun. 👍
For a finish, I use CLR FDA approved food-safe epoxy. It penetrates pretty deep and keeps cracks from forming and can fill them in. hand washing is best but my stuff has survived several trips thru the dishwasher
Hmm sounds awesome ,I'll look into that. Thanks my friend👍
Kuksa looks great! Far from being rubbish and I’m sure Zed would be impressed. I’d use some wood filler for those cracks but I’m not sure if you’d consider that ‘cheating’ but I’m no bushcraft expert so I’d do it 😂. Thanks brother! Doug
I'm no expert either haha. I'm hoping the cracks dont get bigger, so far so good!. Thanks for watching and commenting my friend!
Awesome job carving out that Kuksa!
Than you very much. That was my first one. Since then I've made lots of mistakes and learned a lot!👍
@@Woodswalker1965 That is the way to get good though, gotta make those mistakes and learn by them. (I've made my share plus enough for a few other people.)
BTW, I was born in 1965... great year. :)
Glad to hear your getting over being sick. I was looking back a few days previous to see when your last post was. Nice looking kuksa
Thank you very much, I'm on the mend my friend!👊
Perfect work man!
Thanks a lot! Ive carved quite a few since, its an addiction!
Great work, Wade!!! You may want to get a WoodsWalker1965 iron, to mark your work. If you don't already have one. ✌
Use only food grade oils and or finishes on it! I'm no expert on this.
Hmmm interesting idea, I have no idea where to source one of those, I'll have to get my Google on! 😁
Ahhh Kuksa Carving with a Mad Tom IPA... what a life... Great Video... Canoehound... AKA, Dennis
It wasnt a bad day at all my friend! 🍻
Very good Wade the time watching you make that went in a blink of an eye and then it was over so you certainly had my attention for sure. rude not to have a beer in your garden (and what a back yard indeed) looking forward to seing how this turns out 🍻👍
It was such a nice day Matt. Spring has arrived in Canada!😁🍻🌞🌻
Giving it a watch now buddy
Thanks Steve, nice to hear from you bud!👍✌
Double Thumbs Up & Double High-5's Great Job Wade ! Love seeing the Help offered By Other Tubers On This ! Hoping Them Cracks Stay In Check & We'll Be Sipping a Kuksa-Joe Soon, Thanks Friend ! ATB T God Bless
Thanks Terry, ya what a great community! Let's hope, it needs to dry for at least another week, then its coffee time!😀
Awesome video, I really enjoyed it
Glad to hear that! Thanks for watching and commenting my friend!👍😁
Good carving project! Stop putting yourself down.. Please? You are accomplished in many areas n you should be proud of that, I am! Thanks for sharing! ATB👍🔪🔨😎👍!
Thanks Bill your very kind and I appreciate that. Take care buddy!😁👍👊
Glad to hear you are felling better and able to get back outside. We have enjoyed your carving videos and maybe a few more will follow. Don't kick your skills I think your work looks pretty darn good to me. It's all about the journey, right? Thanks for sharing and taking us along. Atb!
You're right buddy, all about the journey and expanding ones horizons! Thanks for watching and for your kind words!👍
Wowser Wade, loving your kuksa and the enthusiasm you have for your new found hobby of carving. Your back yard is awesome 😎
Thanks for sharing this 🙏🏻
Zed Outdoors would I’m sure praise you for the kuksa 👍🏻
Thanks Michael, Zeds a very inspirational guy!
Nicely done buddy 👍 you make it look so easy. Keep showing the progress. I'd like to see.
I will my friend. It's coming along, just into the long drying process now!👍
Greetings Wade! You have made a good job of shaping that cup, well done. Carving is an enjoyable and useful skill set in Bushcraft. Kuksas/Guksis/Casas go back a long way in time. They must be made from Arctic Curly Birch Burls as that material has very dense and convoluted grain. It is exceptionally hard. The Guksi (I say that because I have Finnish Lapland Sami Ancestry) has to be boiled in salt water then left to cool slowly to tighten the grain and remove woody taste. I have a few Guksis over 100 years old, they are mostly wide and shallow and black as coal as they have held much strong coffee :).
Unfortunately the internet is full of 'knock off' 'Kuksas', many are made of ordinary wood and therefore not kuksas. I do worry when none Sami and Northern Finnish People make and sell them on line as this impacts the revenue from true Duodji (Sami crafts) which augments the meagre income of Sami families in particular. Expropriation of ethnic artifacts has been a major challenge for indigenous people for a long time.
Please do not think I am critical of you as I know you are making this for your own use and that is great my friend.
I will try and attach a link to show Mauri Poylio making Kuksa in a traditional manner (additionaly I have one of his puukko knives which is superb) ruclips.net/video/nNYyobhHM_U/видео.html
Hi Chris thanks for the comment. I'm aware of the history of the wooden cups of Scandinavian countries it is rich for sure. Burls are tough to come by though. This is more of a exercise in carving. It wont last as long as a "real" kuksa it may crack with the first use(we will find out soon😀). If it does I will just make another one. Take care buddy!👍
@@Woodswalker1965 Wade I agree, most Birch species we have here do not have burls on them and are softer, less dense species. Yellow Birch is probably the hardest we have. In the city I notice there are some Hawthorne and Manitoba Maples that have huge burls on them, but folks get funny if they see a bushman hacking off burls downtown :) I hope you recover from that bug you have, when seasonal changes are as erratic as they have been this year I believe it makes us more susceptible to this sickness. Take care WS
Nice first attempt 👍 we’re all a little crack up anyways 😉
Yes Sir haha we are!🤣
Very nice video Wade! I have been thinking of giving carving a try. Your previous video on the carving kit and this one are inspiring! I think your Kuksa is looking great! Hopefully those cracks don’t get any bigger. 🤞Looking forward to you next video. Your personality and sense of humor are great! 😃
Thanks Tracy😁! I'll see you on the next one, hopefully with a fully finished Kuksa👍
Great job, Wade, was very interesting to see it made, cheers mate 👍 ☺️
Thanks Mike!👊
Hi Wade! What a stylish kuksa! You're getting more and more proficient in the art of carving, my friend! 😉🔥🍻🌳🏕🌤
Thanks you! Time will tell the cracks seem to be holding steady haha! Take care🌲🍻😁🌞
Hi Wade. I'm a chip carver (i watched Doug Outside/ now linker) was immed hooked. I have morphed that into putting handles on knife blanks, starting with all my carving knives, moving up to Mora, Condor, and Helle. Mad fun, great way to spend time, for sure.
Glad to see you join the madness:)
Have a great day.
Hi buddy, theres a lot of great inspiring folks out there, Doug included! Sounds like you're having a blast! Cheers!
Very cool video!!! That Zed bit had me weak! 🤣🤣🤣 and love your backyard!
Thanks my brother! 👍✌
That really nice kuksa, love the shape, and thank for the great video....
You're welcome my friend and thank you for watching 👍
My one and only kuksa cracked also. I used super glue and saw dust to repair it. Mine was out of red maple which is very hard. Nice video and beautiful kuksa!!
Thanks for watching Linda! I'm hoping the cracks dont go too deep. Thanks for sharing your Super Glue trick!😁👍
Fantastic video Wade, I am definitely going to pickup one those carving kits. I thought of a beaver tail when you showed the shaping of the handle, I think it would look awesome. Cheers buddy!
Hey Bruce, I'm still loving this kit. It seems I'm always ankle deep in wood chips these days. I'll be doing a short vid with the finished kuksa in a few days! 😁 Thanks for watching!
Hey Wade, finally got to watch you carve you Kuksa. With all this at home going on it was hard to concentrate. It really looks like a great cup and there are some great tips on here for helping the crack. Good luck with that. Thanks for sharing. Blessings and take care, Nikki.
Hi Nikki,hope things quiet down soon for you, that was a terrible accident your step daughter had.
Fingers crossed for no more cracks lol! Take care ,talk to you soon.👍
Woodswalker 1965 yeah let’s hope! She has another surgery tomorrow for her femur and knee...she gave us a scare this early am...started getting a fever due to infection. But seems to be doing better...than this morning at least. Thanks, Wade.
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To fill cracks use thick super glue. Squirt it into the crack then give it a hot shot (spray catalyst) to harden it instantly. It can be carved or sanded immediately.
Thanks very much I will keep that in mind for the next one, maybe buy some and have it on hand. Take care my friend.
Yeah, beauty piece of birch you found there Wade :) Spoons for years!! Its nice to see you getting into the carving mate. The kuksa looked sweet :) The whale tail coffee spoon/scoops look nice. A nice little project for a coffee drinker :) Always nice to catch up with you brother, all the best, Mark :)
Hey Mark funny you should mention the little whale tail scoop...that was my Saturday night entertainment haha! I'll send you a pic😏
I know my grandpa would use very fine saw dust and wood glue mixture to fill in cracks in his woodworking project. Might be worth trying if the cracks get worse as it drys. Nice work by the way, I've been wanting to carve one of those myself!
Thanks for the tip I may need it! Go ahead and try your hand at carving one, it's pretty addictive though.👍😀
I have the same carving kit and have only carved one kuksa. I carved mine out of an oak burl that took me 3 months. It turned out pretty nice but really heavy.
That's sounds like a beauty. I know burls are tough stuff. Well done!
Great job
Beautiful. you had me when you poured that beer. Great work :)
Thank you! I appreciate that!🍻
Very interesting Wade! Love the Kuksa! Great that you tried this first one in one shot! atb!
Hey buddy, it's getting...addictive haha. You warned me!
Wade, nice job.
Thanks buddy, take care!👍
Really nice video. (Subscribed) It is a great thing getting outside, breathing the fresh air and doing a little bushcraft and creative work. Good for the health - and the soul. I also purchased some BeaverCraft knives last fall- they are good steel and good carvers for the money. Be Well !
Thanks for watching and subbing my friend! I'm really enjoying these Beaver Craft knives as well. Take care and see you on the next one👍
Great vid 👍. That small wedge did a great job of freeing up the bow saw and helping with the green wood. It was a lot better than struggling on through. It's those little bits of knowledge and techniques that make the difference outsoors 🙂 they might seem small but they all add up. Some nice tools and kit and I liked the Zed impersonation lol , I think my interview might follow the same thread although my coffee isn't the best either lol. My Polypore infusion isn't too bad 🙂. Great job on the Kuksa and fingers crossed the cracks don't get worse . All the best fella 👍
Thanks brother, much appreciated! 👍I'm getting too old to struggle on in the woods with a sticky saw lol! Take care🍻 Wade
This is brilliant
Thanks very much buddy!
Nice carving job. Lotta work to empty out that kuksa. You can remove a lot of excess wood in it with an ember.
Thanks for watching and for the input my friend. I rather like the carving experience but I know the burn bowl is extremely effective. Take care👍
cool video my friend, hope the wood cracking does not get worse.
Fingers crossed buddy!🤞 Take care my friend 👍
Kudos to you for doing that whole bowl with that hook knife! 💪
Thanks very much!
Great job on the Kuksa 👍🏻 coming along nicely 😁
And I see you still have some snow leftovers 🤔
but at the same time I can see your sitting in a T-shirt so I guess spring has arrived where you live ? 😉
Atb to you my friend… Tom
Good morning Tom. Yes Spring is here although it gets below 0c at night still. Soon I will be testing out the kuksa, let hope it holds coffee! Take care bud!👍🌲🍻🌞😁
Great project Wade. A little B & B time ( Bushcraft & Bandaids ) 😂
Yes always .......bandaids lol! Thanks for watching my friend!
Usually what helps is to fill them with a heat proof resin and then put a tight band around the out side made from cord and tightened down like a tourniquet to keep the cracks from spending during the drying process it works quite often unless the cracks are really bad and then after you can seal it to protect it even more.
Thanks Robert, so far the cracks are quite small and only at the lip. I'm drying it slowly and hoping for the best. Your solution sound like a great idea!👍
Hi Wade, absolutely cool. That was the final push i needed to start with one of my own. Go on searching a piece of wood right now. Please show us the following steps too if you can. Looks really awesome. I am excited if it will be holding up without cracks during the working-and drying- process. I hold my thumbs! Thanks for your cool content. Nice backyard and fireplace btw
Thank youI will keep you posted on the end result. Its drying out at the moment and the cracks haven't gotten any bigger thankfully. Take care my friend and thanks for watching!
I have the same hatchet as you, I have been very happy with mine.
It's a great hatchet, one of my favorites, I'm glad you're happy with yours ! Thanks for watching my friend!
Good work Wade ! I look forward to seeing it after it dries. My attempt at a kuksa resulted in deep cracks as it dried, so if you're successful, let us know how you dried it.
Ok I will let you all know how it goes...good or bad! 😁
Looking awesome brother hellyeah
Thanks brother!
Nice carving job!
Thanks Carl, I've made several since. Practice, practice, practice! Thanks for watching 👍
Kuksa look'n good! I'm anxious, however, to see your 30 foot dug out canoe done in NorthWest motif overnighter in Lake Ontario, down the St. Lawrence and out to the Atlantic! YeeeeeeeHaaaaaa!
Haha ok that's a 10 year project, I better get started!
@@Woodswalker1965 HAH!! Okay, I'm holding my breath ... :)
Nice work
Thank you my friend!
Oh yeah. Check out Felix Ingler. He makes incredible things using only a swiss army knife. He has an English channel, and a German one. Very cool character.
Yup already subbed👍
Absolutely love it mate Kuksa is on my list as one of my next carvings. Can’t remember if u saw the my spoon and kuksa carving on Instagram and RUclips. I do need to get a good peace of wood for my kuksa though the cracks I’ve seen other people use resins and stuff coloured ones to bring a whole new look and style to there kuksa s might help with ur cracks although yours looked quite small or possibly carving the cracks out and gluing in another peace of wood different colour maybe and sealing it in where you carved out the crack hope this has given u some thought and possible ideals for the kuksa or even future carves thanks for sharing mate enjoyed this have been binging out on videos today
Hey buddy thanks for the advice . Actually the cracks haven't gotten any bigger. It's done now so I'll try it out in a few days. Fingers crossed! I'll check out your carvings. Take care mate!👍
Woodswalker 1965 nice one mate be good to see u out using it
April 21st 14:03 snow on the ground..... you must be from Canada! 😂👍
Came across you video by looking for kuksa and spoons. New to carving and was researching a few videos - one said to keep your kuksa in a ziplockbag between carvings, some other videos recommend boiling finished kuksa in salted water to prevent cracking.
oh yeah, you are from Canada! 👍 I'll follow you on instagram.
Thanks for your input! Yup I'm from Canada lol. Actually the cup cracked the first time I carved it. I tried slowing down the drying process by keeping it moist but it was doomed from the start haha.
See you on the Gram!✌️
wade... i can say a lot, but i will attend your carving class any day with backyard campfire and mad tom IPA :) nuff said friend
Haha🍻Start collecting your air miles buddy!👍
I enjoyed the video. First time viewer. I've been looking at carving a Kuksa myself for a while. This is motivating me to get at it. Thank you. There is a process to help dry the Kuksa. Boiling it in salt water I believe. I've watched a video before (a few yrs ago). May be worth looking at. Just a suggestion. Cheers
Thanks for watching Shawn I appreciate the input my friend. I've carved another one, it hasn't made it's way to RUclips yet but you can check it out on Instagram if you like.
Let me know if you get carving and how it goes. Take care!
@@Woodswalker1965 thanks Wade. I just noticed you live in God's country.. lucky guy. I was in your area last spring.. Easter weekend to be exact. Went to QEll that weekend. Beautiful area. I'll keep you posted on my Kuksa progress. Cheers
QE2 is a great place for a hike, let's keep it a secret lol! Keep me posted!
I am really interested in seeing how this project turns out for you. Not that I am any kind of expert Wade but I will share with you what I have learned from experience. Traditionally, the log would be split through the pith in the center. The pith may end up being a leak point. I dried mine slowly in a paper bag with the wood chips as well. I also boiled mine in salt water for at least an hour. Not sure if it made the difference but I have no cracks in mine. I used flax seed oil which is a food safe linseed oil. If you do end up with small cracks consider using wood stabilizer meant for old wood and available at Home Depot. Thanks for sharing
Thanks Mark for the tips! I dont think the pitch is an issue here...yet haha, time will tell. Just a few small cracks on the rim still. How long did you let it dry before boiling and oiling? I was thinking a 2 week period might work. Thanks again brother
@@Woodswalker1965 Wade, I boiled mine as soon as I finished carving it. It is supposed to take the stress out of the grain so it is less likely to crack as it dries
@@Woodswalker1965 I waited a full two weeks for it to dry. If it has not cracked by that time you could place it in an oven or even a dehydrator to ensure it is as dry as possible. If the wood is warm it will absorb more of the oil. The guideline is oil lightly but oil often
what really takes time is for the oil to dry. That was at least three weeks
Ok interesting thanks Mark!
Looks great Wade. I'm trying the same project. I'm nowhere near as far as you got.
Nice, I'd like to see your finished project!👍
I think those few cracks are just from tree and wont hurt anything. As far as drying it out so that it doesn't crack further - one thing i've done after turning a bowl on a lathe is to cover the outside of it with plastic film and let it dry from the inside out. The bowl won't split. Drying cracks are caused by the wood shrinking at different rates during drying. If the outer part dries at the same rate of the inside, it will crack because the outer fibers are shrinking faster than the fibers they are covering. The inner fibers can shrink and not cause cracking. Kind of like pulling a bow sting and putting all the stretching force on the back of the bow making it more likely to split on the back.
There is a whole art and science to drying and I'm certainly NOT an expert! But if you think about the characteristics of wood it will make sense. I've even put a fan on a bowl facing the inside and covered the outside with plastic and had it dry overnight and still no cracks. Some people use a wax coating.
I wouldn't oil it until it has dried out very well.
It turned out very nice. You have they eye for it! That kuksa has been in that tree the whole time...it took you to find it and to get rid of all the wood that was hiding it.
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Hey buddy all of what you said made sense and I'll try it on my next one thank you! 👍I let the kuksa fully dry in a open plastic bag with some wood shavings. The cracks didnt get any bigger but as soon as I added hot coffee to it...BAM!!!! It cracked big time, so I will try again lol😀
Take care thanks for the input!🤙
The first thing that I thought of, when you chose the newly-fallen, spring birch, was "Shrink pot". Maybe next ? If you can find a stretch of knotless bark, off the wide tree base, and harvest it, then maybe make a bark bucket ? Your thoughts about using a gouge, instead of your hook knife, for the bowl in your kuksa were valid. I would suggest maybe, somehow, carefully incorporating the use of a scotch-eyed auger ? Maybe calipers, too ? Thought of the beaver tail, at the same time you mentioned it, on the video. The cracks ? Maybe apply some oil to slow the drying process ? Only on the outside ? Inside ? I don't know ! Do you plan on contouring the spout inside the bowl ? Looking forward to the next video to see if you have found any solutions or insights. : )
Hello my friend, lots of great comments ,thank you!👍 A shrink pot is a pretty cool idea, the birch tree is a amazing resource. I did manage to make a deep bowl but a gouge would be quicker and easier on the wrist. The cracks dont seem to be getting bigger. I am slowly drying it in a plastic bag full of wood chips. I will show the final result soon wait and see! 😁 Thanks for watching and commenting!👍
l've the same wood carving tools l'm new to do make a kuksa when l go wild camping Thank you for give me lesson
Have fun with the tools brother. I've carved several kuksas since this one, it addictive. Thanks for watching!
@@Woodswalker1965 it be my first fritnd
@@johnrossSorbie keep in touch!👍
@@Woodswalker1965 l will keep in touch
Nice kuksa
Thank you very much!👍
The first video of yours that I’ve seen and am very impressed, liked it within the first two minutes because I knew I’d want to come back to it for reference as well as how relaxing it is to watch. Thanks for sharing and amazing work! Also which model axe from Hults Bruk do you use?
Thank you very much that's a very kind comment! I have a few HB heads, I believe this was a vintage 600g head I restored a rehang. It's great for carving. 👍👍
Thank you for the show, i just bought three from beavercraft on amazon myself, you got me to buy the sloyd and chipper? I think it was called. I passed on the whole kit. I think i got the three cheaper because they were on sale.
Very nice, I hope you enjoy them! Thanks for watching!👍
Did you store it in a plastic bag while you were working on it? That will help prevent cracks. Let it dry in a plastic bag too. Don't seal the bag while it is drying. It dries slowly preventing cracks. Good luck! ☺
Thanks Rosie. I'm doing all those things and the cracks dont seem to be getting worse. Thanks for the input, I'm getting lots of great advice!👍I appreciate you watching.
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You can you 2 part epoxy for the outside the Kuksa. Add some dye to make it the color of your choice. Add supper small amount of dye. Fill crack, sand. You're golden.
Gud vid. Thanx.
Thanks very much for that info. I will definitely keep it in mind! Take care!👍
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Thank you my friend!👍
Nice beer ! Euh I mean nice kuksa ;) please send me one as I dont have the same patience that you have carving one 😂, thank's for the video , hope you feel better now
Haha, yes it does require some patience I guess! I'm enjoying it as it's all new to me. Take care and thanks for watching
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✌🌳🔥🌲🍁Thank you!
Check with Tom from " Cimbrer bush craft".. He had a split in his n fixed it with a compound..??!! Jus' a thought!
I really liked the video, the kuksa process very detailed.
What kind of wood can be used to make it?
Greetings from Costa Rica
Thank you very much! Traditionly birch, or a birch burl was used. Any wood can be used but a harder wood will be more difficult to carve. Take care my friend👍
Nice, very nice. Inspirational. I do have a question. How are you dring the wood?
Hi Gary, I'm drying it in a partially closed plastic bag with some wood chips. I'm pretty sure the cracks arent going away lol. Oh well👍
If you have not checked out his fascinating channel, check out Rune Malte Bertram-Nielsen. He is from a different country and does not speak during his videos, but his cinematography is beautiful and he makes all his tools, including forging! I recommend him highly and suggest you check him out. The work is fascinating to the point an hour can go by in what seems like minutes. Relaxing to the soul.
Thanks for the recommendation. I already enjoy his videos, fascinating stuff! Take care✌
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Thank you!👍
Wade, do you have news when the patches and decals will be available to purchase?
Not yet I'm still waiting for pricing from one vendor. Thanks for asking I will let you know when that happens. Take care!👍
Question: what kinds of wood do you recommend to make a Kuksa?
I've made them from birch, cherry and maple. Birch seems to work the best for me. I've had success with some of the fruit woods as well . Thanks for watching👍
Could you tell me how much that set of knives were.I.m curious about wood carving been watching about a year on how to carve faces.I.m pretty artistic so think I would enjoy doing it
Prices change and depending on which country you live in it will be different. You are best to check out Beavercraft tools using the link in the video description. Hope you enjoy!
You mentioned a gouge...i cannot find those anywhere locally. Can you suggest a link for one for a guy on a budget?
I've been looking myself for a budget gouge. When I find one I'll let you know my friend
If you find one could you let me know as well? Thanks for watching!👍
Niiiice. I am gonna do it the same way.
Let me know how it turns out my friend!
@@Woodswalker1965 yes. Sure.
Should I use only birch or something also is good as well?
It's best to use green woods as they are easier to carve. I would avoid oak or pine. Fruit woods like apple are nice to carve as well. Take care
My last video I used a cherry kuksa it was nice to carve as well.
@@Woodswalker1965 I Will watch it.
Your kuksa looks really good! Do you or any or your subscribers have any ideas where
i could order some green birch online - I don't have any birch in my area just aspen trees. Would aspen work for carving a kuksa ?? The birch I find on line is dry i've tried carving this but way to hard thanks for your video ! !
yes it will. I have made some with aspen
I think Aspen would be suitable I would give it a try. I would contact local landscapers or arborists they might be able to give you some green wood as well. Take care!
I believe that Aspens and Birch are related. Same family ? Same Phylum ?
I believe so. I know Aspen and Poplar are good woods for carving, similar to birch in a lot of ways.
I THINK YOUR SAW BLADE TEETH NEED MORE SET TO KEEP IT FROM BINDING UP.
You're right my friend, I use a peg tooth blade designed for dry wood. I do carry a green wood blade in my saw bag but thought a wedge would be quicker. Thanks for watching and commenting, good call on that one!😁👍
Awesome video mate what coffee do you drink?
Thanks a lot! I usually buy Starbucks French Roast beans and grind em just before I head out. Take care👍
Im more interested in backpack in kuksa video
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Well here's a backpack video for you then👍
And here's another👍
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What brand is your backpack?
I usually wear the Frost River Isle Royale pack. Im very happy with it. I did a review here. ruclips.net/video/IbsJaYWIQFM/видео.html
Take care and thanks for watching!