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Kuksa's are traditionally made from Birch wood so that is what i will be using. Take a log of fresh birch wood and chop it down the centre with an axe. |
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| Take one half and carve the chopped surface
smooth and flat with your knife. Draw around a cup or round object onto the flat surface of the log. Use this line as a guide when you are carving. |
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| Carve around one side of the circle like so: |
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| Now carve the underneath to make half your cup
shape. You will be needing an axe for these jobs because there is quite a
lit of wood to remove. |
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| Now draw out your handle shape. To easily
remove most of the wood from either side of the handle i made some stop
cuts. |
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| Simply chop off the wood |
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Carve some more wood off with your knife from either side of the handle if you need to. Leave some excess wood on though. |
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| start to carve out the other side of the main
cup section. If the knife slips and goes onto the handle area it will only
damage the excess wood which you should remove later. |
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| Now you can draw on your handle shape |
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| I used a bracer to creathe the whole and just my knife to do the rest. |
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| once the main shape of the cup is carved and
you are happy with it, move on to carving out the bowl. |
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| Once you have carved your cup to perfection
and its symmetrical on both sides, put it in an open paper bag for a week
to let the wood dry. Once dry it will be time to sand your cup smooth. Start off with the most coarse sand paper you have and then use less abrasive papers to finish. I generally use three different grits of paper. Get all the bumps and scratches out with the roughest until you move onto the finer stuff. To easily sand out the inside of the handle whole i uses a piece of sand paper wrapped round a stick. |
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| You can also drill or burn an extra whole for
hanging your cup |
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| Once sanded and totally finished i oiled it
with vegetable oil. Finished! |
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