Green Wood Carving Guide

Used in

• Chapter 4 Copper, Wood and Stone

The rows that check it

• 6 confirmed
• 1 amended
• 1 dropped
• 1 marked for safety

• W9 dropped Safety Linseed rags heat themselves and ignite at about 120 to 150 °C; lay flat outdoors or in a tin of water
• W32 confirmed Fibre saturation 26 to 30 % MC; kitchen EMC 6 to 12 %; shrinkage green to dry: longitudinal 0.1 to 0.2 %, radial 2 to 5, tangential 6 to 10, T/R about 2; end grain dries 10 to 15 …
• W33 confirmed Split through the pith and discard it and the first rings; carve green; dry slowly in a paper bag with shavings; with the grain
• W34 confirmed Species: apple, pear, cherry (antimicrobial, knife finish); birch the Scandinavian staple; sycamore the English treen wood (no taste); ash for handles; beech T/R 2.15 cups and …
• W35 confirmed Three tools: axe, straight knife at 25 to 27° single bevel, hook knife cutting no deeper than 1.5 mm (1/16 in); Wille Sundqvist taught for fifty years and forbade sandpaper; …
• W36 confirmed Linseed oil about 53 % linolenic, cures 2 to 10 weeks by oxidation; walnut slower; olive and sunflower never dry and go rancid (butyric acid); spoon butter 4 : 1 oil to beeswax
• W37 amended Cliver and Ak, University of Wisconsin, 1993: bacteria on wood unrecoverable after 3 to 10 minutes, 99.9 % down in 12 hours; recoverable from plastic
• W38 confirmed Yadav et al. 2023: a plastic chopping board sheds 7 to 50 g a year (PE), tens of millions of particles under 100 µm

In the Index

Tools and their making Smoke and the cure The kitchen and its dishes The table Wood, willow and the cask