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Carving a Bowl with home made Adz Print E-mail
Written by Tom Mills   
A bowl shaped with a home made Adz, it's not so hard when shown how. Thought I'd post some photos of an adz I made out of an old truck leaf-spring, and show you a bowl I made using the adz, and some other tools:

Here's a photo of a split sycamore log, my adz, and two small axes (one a Gransfor and the other fashioned out of a rail road spike) I'm about to use to make a bowl. The wood is "green."



Here I've used my axe to flatten the bottom of the bowl, and to begin to shape the handles:



Now I'm using a drawknife to clean up the handle areas, and the outside of the bowl:



Here's a shot of the rough outside shape:



Using my home made adz to begin to hollow out the bowl. Note that the blade is easily removed from the handle. This is a style of adz common to the North West Pacific Coast of North America.:



The adz makes short work of the hollowing process:



Next, I switch to a bent, spoon gouge to work some more on the bowl:



I also use another Pacific North West Coast Indian style carving tool - a crooked knife to help hollow the bowl:



Here's a pic of some new crooked knife blades that I recently forged out of a couple of old "bastard" files:



Crooked knives are excellent for carving spoons and bowls and such!

Anyway...here's the almost finished green wood bowl:



I'll let it dry for a while (inside a paper sack so it dries slowly and avoids cracking), and then finish it up.



I know it's nothing fancy! I'm not very good at carving, but do enjoy trying. I especially enjoy making things using tools that I made from scratch!
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