Carving a Noggen

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Dave Canterbury, David Canterbury, The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue

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afternoon folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters in the Pathfinder school who in this afternoon we're going to carve ourselves a noggin noggin was basically a scoop or small cup of sorts and that was carried on the belt

usually had a toggle thumb that would hang from the belt so that you could use it for scooping up water scooping up amounts of food and things like that and there's really no information on exactly where the term noggin came from it was discussed and many of the old wood craft and camping books including books by Daniel Baird and the things that led up to and were written for the Boy Scouts of America but they think they're originated somewhere in Europe obviously and that it has something to do with being about the size of a quarter gill in measurement this one's probably about that size maybe just a little bit larger but it's just a utilitarian tool that can be used for eating as well as getting a quick drink out of a stream whatever the case may be it was different than a kusa it was not as big or large as a cosa it was larger than a serving spoon but it was about the same type design as a serving spoon and some of them were just a simple scoop and some of them had a little bit longer handle so we're going to do today is we're going to try to replicate one pound of tulip poplar and staying with birch star or birch oil let stay with me I really how close you get to all these lines with your axe cuts is completely up to you and when you feel comfortable with doing with your axe if you're packin stock has got a couple grooves in it where you can get that material held in place really well and we're working on it

depending on what you're doing with the material it will give you advantage of being able to carve a little bit easier without the material slipping when you're trying to carve a tedious area like this even or if this thing would slip around I could catch my fingers I can get in here and card these areas out there by finding a good secure spot put this where it's not gonna move and then get in there carve out then I can get closer to my lines but again that's really up to you what you do there okay so a noggin was similar to a cook's of its smaller big much bigger than a serving spoon with a shorter handle on it and so I've got this thing fairly deep and I'm going to make a fairly deep bowl in this noggin so I have let that pretty squarish in shape right now so that I can get it into a woodland tight vise or on my bull vise and start working on that bowl and then I'll come back in and do all my refinements of the bolshevik and all of that stuff after I get done with that one thing that I'm doing here is I'm experimenting with different tools to see what's gonna work the best for me like I said a lot of things that I do what I'm doing this is I'm just experimenting with different tools to see what designs work the best for what and what I've made and see what improvements I can make on that this last book knife that I made right here really really does the job well so I like this design and this really copied kind of after amaura it's just got a little bit longer tail on and a little bit deeper hook other than that it's very similar to Morris spoon carving knife in dimension shape but it really does a good job of getting in there and cleaning that out now I'm just kind of going in here for the final cleanup phase and this tool is quickly becoming my absolutely favorite it's got a lot of versatility that front ends up just really clean stuff up nice probably could go a little deeper right here just to get down in there so we'll try that it's deep down in here as we can before we start carving I said now that we got a bowl smoothed out pretty much all we want going to go back to the axe here and start shaping this thing in before we go to the knife then we just want to start knocking off all the corners basically getting everything blend it in if somebody asked me last night how come your shops not enough give me all that chips all over the floor piece of the work laying around try to keep my shop clean and chips outside but I guess if everybody likes working inside I can work inside just easy the next guy just seems kind of crowded compared to a 20 by 40 overhang to eat yourself I suppose we'll use this transition right here coming down let's ramp this way this way it'll make it easier to turn this corner with our knife we'll have a sharp point right there but we can't carve into if we're going to try to finish this pretty much without sandpaper so we've got ease both of those transition lines down at a gentle angle

okay so getting somewhere now stuck to the original plan here pretty much and we're down to the chip carve piece profiles finished up and now I'm trying to decide whether I want to go ahead and say in this thing and whether I want to just leave a chip carve but we've got to drill a hole in here either way for a lanyard typical noggin had a lanyard and toggle on it that one could tuck inside there belt very much like a kusa except this was smaller God I'm the camera at the Pathfinder school and something lights up there's i appreciate john madden today for this quick video on how to make it noggin i appreciate your views that preciate your support i thank you for everything you do for our school for our family important business of our sponsors instructors affiliates and friends i'll be back to another video as soon as I can thanks guys