Shrink Pot Carving (from log to pot)

im guessing the greener the wood is the better this works, yes?

Great video - thanks!
I am familiar with shrink pots / shrink boxes in the Scandinavian tradition - is it part of the UK woodlands craft tradition as well? Do you know if the idea was imported from Scandinavia?

Thanks for commenting. I am unable to help with your research. I have been making them for a couple of years, but my best guess is, yes it has come from Scandinavia - that's where I first saw it.

Actually at some Rondevous Days (sp sorry) get togethers there are birch bark pots used in suspension over heat of the fire used to boil water and Ive seen hot rocks added to water held in birch bark pots to heat the water also.

Thanks for commenting

nice work, but not a pot, more like a container.
a pot is meant to boil things in and you can't boil anything in wood or the wood will burn, taking all the heat away from the water and thus being ineffective as a pot.

Thanks for your comment. I think you will find it is a pot. Containers are a collective, of which the pot is one. You are obviously thinking of the cooking pot as the only use of the term pot. Wood has played a huge part in our history - in one shape or form and that includes wooden baskets for cooking. The flower pot has the word pot in it and I know, were once made of wood. There are many uses for the term pot.

Great tutorial but why are your videos monochrome and over-exposed so one cannot make out the detail?

Thanks for your comment. Firstly, I do not make tutorials. Secondly, I prefer monochrome and Third, I am not a video photographer. If you read the Description section for my videos, you will see the common thread running through all of them - "INSPIRE". Good luck with your projects.

auger