Bowl Carving. Ash wood. Part 4

Ash log Carved into a wooden Bowl.
This isn't intended to be a full instructional video with safety recommendations.
Just showing some Bowl carving.
Trying to make my way thrue various kinds wood i can find in Denmark.
My site:
haandensvaerk....
Thanks for watching

[@aeon726]

Nice work. Beautiful wood. I appreciate that you used up 4 videos to show most of the process and progress vs. speeding up or loping off too much. Was wondering is that ash blank green or had cured before your carving.

[@SimonAagaard]

Hey Rick. the wood was dry, very hard to work whit, i prefer green wood. Thank you.

[@aeon726]

Thanks, I kind of thought so. Add tenacity to your skill set.

[@pennyvickers5178]

Thank you for the lovely videos the bowl is amazing. You are a real artesian

[@SimonAagaard]

Thank you so muts.

[@reedcooper6545]

Wow!! This tool really appears difficult to use! I was looking forward into making a bowl out of ash until this video showing you really working hard on this hand gouge!! At almost 70 years old I am not sure I have the wrist and shoulder strength to handle that thing!!! Very outstanding design and excellent craftsmanship!!

[@billastell3753]

You can always use a mallet and tap the chisel. Dry ash is VERY hard. The other option is use wet softer wood like birch.

[@michelealtavilla3955]

Bel lavoro e poi tutto fatto a mano proprio bravo saluti dal’Italia

[@SimonAagaard]

Molte grazie, saluti dalla Danimarca

[@goatfacechiller6463]

Adze and you can come from outside of the bowl to the centre ends.. Also from experience with those gouges, an unmoving completely solid hold for your workpiece makes for more control, as theres loads of wasted energy that could be put into the cut, but goes into compensating for path and direction and many more, much less tiring and you can produce more defined and rustic looking looking texture, instead of getting annoying tears and jump outs that instead of rustic look scruffy and unfinished

[@damondiehl5637]

Would a spoke-shave be a more appropriate tool?

[@SimonAagaard]

Hey Damon. Your right, but i dont have one. but its on the to buy list. Thanks for watching.

[@tonyy5482]

Hans Karlsson bowl gouge - one of the most enjoyable tools in the world to use IMHO. It would be difficult to get that lovely concave effect with a spoke-shave (I have 10 or 12 spoke-shaves) but - if you don't mind loosing the gouged tool marks - a spoke-shave would certainly help smooth out the final result and/or remove some bulk before gouging. Perhaps a flat bottom spoke-shave before and a (regular sized) curved bottom one might work best afterwards for the bowl geometry above.

[@tonyy5482]

BTW For green woodworking, I find a big old wooden spokeshaves most useful - it is a different tool to most modern metal spokes-shaves, the angle of attack is much lower. It seems to be remove volume quickly while leaving an impressively smooth finish - a useful combination, you want a smooth finish.

[@nshotter]

Hi, very impressive adze/axe skills :-) Wanted to ask a dumb question. I've been away from crafts for nr10 yes due to illness etc & tho I've turned bowls I've no longer got a lathe or the room for it. I've made ladles/spoons etc using axe n crooks but never a bowl. I have an ash turning blank I thought I'd try with. however, just about all the "how to" stuff I've seen people seem to be hollowing the inside before shaping the outside . That feels in my head like it's the wrong way around ? Sorry, some residual brain damage so it's probably me but any words of explanation would be cool if uve time. ([e-mail])

[@tonyy5482]

Perhaps Simon will answer later. It can seem a little odd but hollowing the inside first is quite normal, for Swedish-style bowl carving anyway [ref. Wille Sundqvist's book & Jogge Sundqvist's DVD]. I think the main reason is because it is usually (much) simpler to secure a half log bowl-blank than a shaped bowl exterior, which can be devilishly hard to secure esp. for very curvy bowls. If it feels wrong to you, try it both ways and see which works best for you ;)