Scandinavian Handcraft

thank´s for link to the Vidio, I have seen it before but just cuoldn´t find it again
but that is the same thecnic as building Mike´s basket and it is very informativ
and fun to see how few tools the had at that time :-)

take care
Dennis

Dennis,I love this video… they have some more on there site.

I can’t thank you enough for these films Houtje. The very same project we are working on. It’s always amazing to see people do these things with such well practiced skills and simple tools.

The film answered a lot of questions and gave some good examples of the work process, such as using the lag knife and final smoothing inside and out after final assembly, but before installing the bands. I had planned to do the same thing on mine.

It appeared that the stave’s were cut directly from a log with a curved iron to give the concave insides. A big time saver.

If you don’t mind, I would like to include this link with a reference to your contribution in one of the ancient bucket blogs just to make sure that people interested in the ancient bucket project will be able to see it. Thanks once again for this wonderful film link and for realizing that it would be of interest to me. I also enjoyed seeing the wheel making process, which is something else I’ve wanted to make for a long time.

-- Mike, an American living in Norway.

Mike :
if you look at the vidio one more time he use the axe to start
the inside curve and then continue with a plane to finish it

Hutjie:
I gessed there shuld be more wasn´t sure but in the short time I had I cuoldn´t find them
but there is a Swedish museum site that shuold have them all in one place ( sorry of course
as usual I can´t remember the site :-(

take care
Dennis

Mike,
Of course you can use the link in your project.
I injoy your project very much. And when I saw it I thought it could give you some information.
I love see how you can make beautifull things with less tools.

Dennis if I find the site it I’ll let you know.

Injoy… Houtje

Thank´s :-)
Dennis

Thanks for posting. I thought that was Mike and his dad working on his lagging bucket project. I’m glad he chimed in and cleared that up for me.

-- Bob in WW ~ "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence

Nice looking dipper bucket they made, and some interesting tools too. Loved the two man planes and that draw knife looked like it could be a samurai sword in its spare time! :)

-- The nicer the nice, the higher the price!

Are you sure it isn’t a broad sword being used as a draw knffe in tis spare time? ;-))

-- Bob in WW ~ "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence

It is nothing less than fantastic! We can stop guessing now. I was so happy to see this.
I will look into this world next week.
Best thoughts and a big thank you,
Mads

-- MAD F, the fanatical rhykenologist and vintage architect.

All :

Houtje was so nice to sendt me a Pm with this link to other old films/vidio´s about
Skandinavian Handcraft this is in Finland (just let Google Translate if that is not a languge
you are fammilliar with …...LOL )
http://www.kansatieteellisetfilmit.fi/videot.htm

if any one ells find find site or vidio´s with Skandinavien handcraft then I think you shuold post
them here since it wuold be the right headline to post them under sofare :-)

take care
Dennis

OK guys, now that we have a piggen, we can go milk some cows. My maternal grand mother had one of those that her great grand father made. I’m guessing that it was made back in the 1830’s or there about.

Houtje, Thank you for this link. Roy Underhill, eat your heart out. lol

Mike thank you for starting this, as it had been most educational. So many of these old arts are lost to us.

Thanks Houtje, I showed it to my children. They were quite fascinated by it.

Pb.

-- rhykenologist and plant grower