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276288 | Patrick Olguin <paddychulo@g...> | 2022‑09‑10 | WTB Bark Spud |
Esteemed Galooterati, Anyone have a bark spud they'd like to part with? I have some green olivewood from the Russian olive tree I killed with extreme prejudice, when I chose my sewer line and pocketbook over its continued life. I would however put several large chunks to use as rustic (as in like a-not-very-skilled-woodworker-did-this) furniture. So I'd like to peel, shape, wax, and then dry for a couple of years before the chunks are commissioned to hold drinks, appetizers and butts. What say you? Best, Paddy |
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276329 | scottg <scottg@s...> | 2022‑09‑13 | Re: WTB Bark Spud |
I have never had a lot of use for a bark spud, even though I have had them in the past and I know people who use them. Bark spud is more a "pry the bark off" tool, sort of like a crowbar. I was always a drawknife guy. Straddle the log and peel with the bevel down. I am pretty fast. But lately I got turned onto using an ordinary garden spade. A standard square end, short D handle garden spade. If you take a big coarse file (or an a--gle grinder) and put a 25-30 degree bevel on the inside leading edge of the spade (the side where the dirt normally goes) OK its a little tricky to get down. The angle where you are riding the bevel you made. And the slightest change in your angle of attack means skating off the bark or digging into the wood. But when you do hit the magic angle, just under the bark, its just.............. WHINNG !!!!! Strips of bark explode off, as the spade travels the full length of the pole in seconds flat. It really does work and its 2 dollars any yard sale away. yours scott -- ******************************* Scott Grandstaff Box 409 Happy Camp, Ca 96039 scottg@s... http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/sgrandstaff/ http://www.snowcrest.net/kitty/hpages/index.html |
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276330 | Michael Suwczinsky <nicknaylo@g...> | 2022‑09‑14 | Re: WTB Bark Spud |
As I recall, this tool is a round, circular edge on end of a metal bar. Perhaps a wooden handle attached to that? Sort of thing your local blacksmith could knock out in an afternoon. How long a barking spud we’re you thinking? Michael On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 1:02 PM scottg |
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276331 | Patrick Olguin <paddychulo@g...> | 2022‑09‑14 | Re: WTB Bark Spud |
I'm doing some spudding this week. I have been asked to debark some of the olive wood logs left over from the demise of the tree-that-invaded-our-sewer-line, to start them on their journey from former tree to future rustic live-edge furniture accoutrement. I received one in the mail, and I'll be making a handle for it this week, hewn from the same tree. Hoping to retain most of my blood and all of my appendages. I selected a spud over a drawknife because I'm hoping to peel, versus plane off the bark. The bark peels pretty easily. I might have used a large wooden spoon, but then this isn't the old spoons list. Best, Paddy On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 6:02 PM Michael Suwczinsky |
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276332 | gary allan may | 2022‑09‑15 | Re: WTB Bark Spud |
Paddy: Whatever. Use the drawknife. If it's dull, so much the better. gluck widdat-- gam in OlyWA/USA How horrible it is to have so many people killed!---And what a blessing one cares for none of them! Jane Austen On Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 10:22:36 AM PDT, Patrick Olguin |
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276333 | Michael Blair <branson2@s...> | 2022‑09‑15 | Re: WTB Bark Spud |
> Whatever. Use the drawknife. If it's dull, so much the better. gluck widdat-- gam in OlyWA/USA Depends on what one wishes to accomplish, and what sort of bark the tree has. Spuds and drawknives or scorps don't do the same thing. Spuds are most useful in removing big chunks of bark by peeling the bark away from the wood. Very useful in removing, for example, cork. Also for removing other oak bark to use in tanning in ye olde dayes. Spuds won't leave behind the signature of edged tools, but leave the natural surface of the wood under the bark. (Is that what you had in mind in recommending a dull drawknife?) Mike in Woodland |
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