Carve a dough bowl!
Hone your green woodworking skills by learning the essentials of bowl carving! Learn how to safely and efficiently use your axe, an adze, and other hand tools. Each class will feature an Axercise warm-up, demos, and guidance as you practice your green wood carving skills. Students will start by learning how to split a log, flatten their half into a workable rectangle with the axe, and map out the layout of their bowl. We’ll learn hollowing techniques using the axe, adze, and gouges. We’ll use shave horses and learn work-holding techniques at our workbenches, shaping our bowls with axes, gouges, draw knives, and spokeshaves. Our approach to bowl carving is a mash-up of traditional and modern techniques. We support both incorporating precision measuring tools and trusting our hands to tell us where we’re at.
Expect to leave class with a mostly finished bowl and feeling comfortable using a variety of hand tools. Finishing cuts always happen on a dry surface and your green wood bowl needs some slow drying time to prevent cracking or splitting. We will go over various finishing techniques in class.
Dough bowls are long and shallow bowls that were historically used to separate out cream from milk but are used today to knead dough, hold fruit or bread, show off tools, or whatever you want!
This class is suitable for beginners but some carving experience is helpful.
*** We do require masking indoors, whatever your vaccination status***
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Taught by Jeanette Torkelson and Ema Thoen
