Shrink pots E-Book

Bettina Lutzke

• Herausgeber: epubli
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 20

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

Beschreibung

Can you make a wooden box with a coherent, stable wooden connection of two parts without glue and only with the power of nature? You can! These wooden boxes are called shrink pots. They are carved from fresh branches (green wood) and make use of the fact that wood shrinks during the drying process. A base of dry wood is inserted into a fresh hollowed-out branch so that a tight wooden pot is created during drying. The procedure for making such a shrink pot will be illustrated in this booklet. Tools are presented and step-by-step instructions guide the reader from start to finish. This guide is aimed at both beginners and experienced woodcarvers. The description of the individual steps is user-friendly and simply written. The making process is accompanied by many drawings. You will be rewarded with very special and unique wooden boxes that can be used in the kitchen for tea, coffee, spices or sugar, for example. Out eyes then enjoy the unique wooden creations every day, and they are also very practical.

Leseprobe

Shrink Pots.

A guide to making them.

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Texts: © Copyright by Bettina Lutzke

Cover design: © Copyright by Bettina Lutzke

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Bettina Lutzke

Bonner Wall 100

50677 Cologne

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Content

Introduction

Tools needed:

Optional Tools:

The beginning

Optional: Remove the bark

The drilling

Marking the rim

Cutting the groove for the base

Making the base

Round off the base edges

Fitting the base

Now it's time to wait!

Making the lid

Chamfering the top of the shrink pot

Tracing through

The transfer

The bevel on the lid

Fitting the lid

The handle

Wedging the round tenon

The completion

Finally

Acknowledgement

About the author

Introduction

Shrink pots are wooden boxes made from a fresh branch, making use of the fact that wood shrinks during the drying process. A dry wood base is inserted into a groove cut into a freshly hollowed out branch. When the fresh green timber shrinks as it dries, it closes around the dry wood base to form a tight seal. The procedure for making a shrink pot will be illustrated and described in this booklet.

Basically any wood can be used. I prefer to use maple, copper beech, lime, cherry, apple or birch. When it has stormed and snowed in autumn and winter, I often find my wood while walking. I like to make the main part of my shrink pots in the winter, because the cold, damp weather allows me enough time to process the wood I’ve collected before it becomes too dry. This lead me to develop a yearly cycle in which I make the actual shrink pots during the winter and then the corresponding lids in the summer. Sometimes a shrink pot stays with me for a full year before I sell it and it finds a new home.

The making of a shrink pot is a slow process that helps us to slow down and exercise patience. We are rewarded with very special and unique wooden boxes that can be used in the kitchen for tea, coffee, spices or sugar, for example. Our eyes then enjoy the unique wooden creations everyday.