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Do you know someone who might be lonely? Want to e

Do you know someone who might be lonely? Want to express your love to your valentine? Show your appreciation with a heart. Birch shrink pots, with alder lid. Carved hearts and painted with an earthy red mineral in a natural paint. Available in my webshop at www.hetnoesteleven.nl #valentine #heart #love #shrinkpot #handmade

Shrink pot production. After removing the bark of

Shrink pot production. After removing the bark of some fresh, green birch, the logs are hollowed out with a gouge. Using a spoon knive the inside is then cleaned. A little groove can then be carved a little above the lower edge. The base is then carved to size from some pre-dried wood, in this case alder. The top of the base, which will be on the inside of the shrinkpot, is flat. The bottom side is convex. With a little force the base can then be pushed into the groove. Now I'll just have to wait for at least a couple of weeks for the shrink pot to actually shrink, so the base will get stuck in the groove. Then it can be finished and perhaps be decorated. The lid will also be made only after the pot has stopped shrinking. #shrinkpot #shrinkbox #shrinkpotcarving #greenwoodworking #handcarved

The hook tools took a little rest today, as I took

The hook tools took a little rest today, as I took out the chisels to turn some new mandrels. These mandrels are used when turning a bowl (added a photo I took another day, for clarity about how exactly such a mandrel is used). Even though they can be used many times, they do wear and need to be replaced once in a while. To make sure the mandrel sits really tight in the bowl blank, without coming loose or changing position, the diameter needs to be somewhat larger than the hole that is drilled in the bowl blank. The shavings created by a chisel are completely different from those created by a hook tool, but they look great as well. I used a couple of different types of wood for making these mandrels, in order to experience the different behavior of each type of wood for this application. #mandrel #lathe #chisel #bowlturning #polelathe

This is a tale of winter, braided beards and a str

This is a tale of winter, braided beards and a strapping young lad. Or actually, it's not so much of a tale, but more like a short story. And the guy in the photo is not so young and strapping, but just a regular (?) 1.75 m, 40 years old dude, who doesn't even have his beard braided. So, what's it all about then? Well, today was the first day it was freezing this winter in my outdoor workshop. The low angle of the sun, combined with the freezing cold, resulted in some lovely sights. Due to that low temperature, the oil I use for greasing my pole lathe had completely solidified. And what about the beard? Well, normally I'd have it braided. These wood shavings, even though they can be beautiful, are one of the reasons why. Thank you for listening to my story. Sleep well. #winter #braidedbeard #woodturning #bowlturning #polelathe #freezing

What an amazing spoon came in the mail! This aweso

What an amazing spoon came in the mail! This awesome spoon that balances between life and death is made by the incredible craftsmanship by @skogencraft. It combines perfectly with this bowl I made, which features not only the same colour scheme, but seems to be subjected to that same delicate balance with its repaired crack. Man, we should start a Scottish /Dutch collaboration somehow. I'm totally in love with this new set. #spooncarving #bowlturning #balance #lifeanddeath #darkart #darkarts

When the goal is to make many bowls, you'll get ma

When the goal is to make many bowls, you'll get many bowls....... but you'll get a bonus as well. Lots and lots of shavings, curls, sawdust and offcuts. The offcuts can be dried for fire wood and the rest makes great mulching material to be used underneath the berries. To bad our vegetable garden is about 6 km away (which feels like much further with the cargo bike) , but hey, at least I got to bring home some of these lovely winter vegetables. #bowlturning #polelathe #shavings #offcuts #woodcurls #mulching

First series of 2021 🎉 Spoons with matching bo

First series of 2021 🎉 Spoons with matching bowls (see photos). All hand made from local, green alder wood. Decorated with kolrosing and finished with linseed oil. Now available in my web shop. See link in bio. #newseries #bowl #spoon #bowlturning #spooncarving #kolrosing #alderwood #vikingstyle #medieval #medievalstyle

Birthday gift for my wife her 35th birthday. A s

Birthday gift for my wife her 35th birthday. A storage pot for olives, sun dried tomatoes etc. The concave lid can also be used as a little dish to hold the stones of the olives. The bowl and lid were turned on my foot powered pole lathe. The knob, the spoon and the skewer were hand carved. Bowl and lid are painted with plant based milk paint with non-toxic mineral pigments. Finished with linseed oil. #birthday #birthdaygift #bowlturning #storagejar #storagepot #milkpaint #veganmilkpaint

Feeling blue, being locked down? This bowl will c

Feeling blue, being locked down? This bowl will cheer you up, with its bright, but natural colours. Turned on a pole lathe and decorated by scorching and painting with plant protein based paint with non-toxic minerals as pigments. The little crack that was present in the wood is fixated with copper wire. Finished with linseed oil. More bowls like these, but without the crack, will appear in my webshop in about a month or so, if all goes well. I'll keep you informed. #bowlturning #blue #bluewednesday #kreidezeitnaturfarben #polelathe #handturned #greenwoodworking

New set! At the moment I'm working on these sets

New set! At the moment I'm working on these sets from alder wood: a bowl, turned on a pole lathe, and a hand carved spoon. Both with matching kolrosed patterns. These patterns were carved into the wood and filled with powdered coffee. Finished with linseed oil. No power tools were used. These sets will be available in my webshop sometime in January. I'll keep you informed 😊 . . . #woodencutlery #woodenbowl #woodenspoon #eatingspoon #polelathe #medievalstyle #medieval #handmade #handcarved #nopowertools

Newly made knife. I always used my Morakniv 120 k

Newly made knife. I always used my Morakniv 120 knife for kolrosing, by holding it by the very tip of the blade. That results in a very fine line, which can be nice, but sometimes I want more weight to the lines. Therefore I made this new kolrosing knife. It carves broader cuts and because of the short blade it's easy to hold. Now I can hold it by the handle instead of by the tip of the blade, which causes less stress on my fingers. I've just kolrosed 10 spoons and there's no pain or cramps in my fingers and the lines are broader, just as I wanted. Happy with my new tool. #newknife #newtool #kolrosing #kolrosingknife #woodcarving #spooncarving

Groovy! I've been playing around with grooves toda

SNEAK PREVIEW A new series of spoons is coming soo

SNEAK PREVIEW A new series of spoons is coming soon. This winter is all about increasing productivity and creating product lines. The first series I'm previewing here are these spoons. They are still in the process of being carved and no decorations have yet been made. In a couple of weeks you'll be seeing the final product. Don't tell anyone yet, or you'll spoil the surprise 🤫 #spooncarving #spoon #woodenspoon #carvingdetails #sneakpreview #sneakpeek

Yesterday Sjors and Job from @vershout presented t

Yesterday Sjors and Job from @vershout presented their new book Lepelhout (directly translated 'spoon wood'). They were so kind to invite me and even gave me the opportunity to introduce myself in the livestream of the book presentation (https://youtu.be/ams0tkaxDoc only in Dutch). From the pictures you'll get an impression of their wonderful site (and our soup).

I'm in a book! A great thank you to Sjors and Job

I'm in a book! A great thank you to Sjors and Job from @vershout for inviting me and other spoon carvers / green wood workers to contribute a few pages to their new book 'Lepelhout' (or directly translate 'spoon wood'). It's a great follow up on their book 'Vershout', which is also published in English as 'The forest woodworker', and discusses all the ins and outs of carving spoons from green wood accompanied by great photos. @carolinas_slojd wrote a lovely review of the book on her blog page https://slojd.nl/en/spoon-blog-book-review-lepelhout/. Thanks again to Job and Sjors! #spooncarving #spooncarvingbook #lepelhout #vershout #musthave

My pole lathe. A little while someone requested so

My pole lathe. A little while someone requested some pics of my pole lathe. The first photo is of the lathe in its natural habitat and the rest in its regular habitat. The lathe itself is nothing fancy, but a good old workhorse.

When the log you're turning a bowl from has a larg

When the log you're turning a bowl from has a large enough diameter, it's possible to turn several bowls from the same piece. In the pictures you can see how I turned a tiny bowl within a larger one. Two bowls for the price of one 😀. When done well, the outside of the smaller bowl only needs some finishing after taking it out of the bigger one. So there's no need for carving it out with an axe or rough turning. Of course it still needs to be hollowed out. #nestedbowls #nestofbowls #polelathe

New tool! At a small event I saw this scorp in the

New tool! At a small event I saw this scorp in the @black.oakforge stand. I traded it for a shrink pot. Today I made a handle and tested it for cleaning out the inside of a large shrink pot. It totally lived up to my expectations. Thanks Niek for this great tool! #newtool #scorp #blackoakforge #shrinkpotmaking

Would you like your baked bowls rare, medium or we

Would you like your baked bowls rare, medium or well done? Well done please. Baking bowls. Exaggerated a little.

I had a couple of bowls that weren't turned that

I had a couple of bowls that weren't turned that well and even had cracks in it. I decided to do some (artificial) aging experiments on them and compare the results. All bowls were made of alder. One bowl was baked in the oven (top bowl in the first picture, bottom bowl in the second). The next bowl was treated with iron acetate, which reacts with the tannin acids in the wood. This causes the wood to turn black. This is the bowl in the middle. The last bowl had both treatments. I like that result the most, as it has a really nice depth of colour, whereas the colour on the one that only had the iron acetate treatment was a bit more shallow. The baked bowl is my second favorite. The cracks in the bowls were fixated using copper wire. All in all these bowls that came from the 'failed' pile turned out pretty neat after all. #experimentingwithwood #experiment #ironacetate #tannin #bakedwood #woodenbowl

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