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276288 Patrick Olguin <paddychulo@g...> 2022‑09‑10 WTB Bark Spud
Esteemed Galooterati,
Anyone have a bark spud they'd like to part with? I have some green
olivewood from the Russian olive tree I killed with extreme prejudice, when
I chose my sewer line and pocketbook over its continued life. I would
however put several large chunks to use as rustic (as in like
a-not-very-skilled-woodworker-did-this) furniture. So I'd like to peel,
shape, wax, and then dry for a couple of years before the chunks are
commissioned to hold drinks, appetizers and butts.

What say you?

Best,
Paddy
276329 scottg <scottg@s...> 2022‑09‑13 Re: WTB Bark Spud
I have never had a lot of use for a bark spud, even though I have had 
them in the past and I know people who use them.
  Bark spud is more a "pry the bark off"  tool, sort of like a crowbar.

   I was always a drawknife guy. Straddle the log and peel with the 
bevel down. I am pretty fast.

  But lately I got turned onto using an ordinary garden spade.
A standard square end, short D handle garden spade.
  If you take a big coarse file (or an a--gle grinder) and put a 25-30 
degree bevel on the inside leading edge of the spade (the side where the 
dirt normally goes)

   OK its a little tricky to get down. The angle where you are riding 
the bevel you made. And the slightest change in your angle of attack 
means skating off the bark or digging into the wood.
   But when you do hit the magic angle, just under the bark,
its just.............. WHINNG !!!!!
Strips of bark explode off, as the spade travels the full length of the 
pole in seconds flat.

   It really does work and its 2 dollars any yard sale away.
      yours scott

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276330 Michael Suwczinsky <nicknaylo@g...> 2022‑09‑14 Re: WTB Bark Spud
As I recall, this tool is a round, circular edge on end of a metal bar.
Perhaps a wooden handle attached to that?

Sort of thing your local blacksmith could knock out in an afternoon. How
long a barking spud we’re you thinking?


Michael

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 1:02 PM scottg  wrote:

> I have never had a lot of use for a bark spud, even though I have had
> them in the past and I know people who use them.
>   Bark spud is more a "pry the bark off"  tool, sort of like a crowbar.
>
>

-- 
Michael
276331 Patrick Olguin <paddychulo@g...> 2022‑09‑14 Re: WTB Bark Spud
I'm doing some spudding this week. I have been asked to debark some of the
olive wood logs left over from the demise of the
tree-that-invaded-our-sewer-line, to start them on their journey from
former tree to future rustic live-edge furniture accoutrement. I received
one in the mail, and I'll be making a handle for it this week, hewn from
the same tree. Hoping to retain most of my blood and all of my appendages.
I selected a spud over a drawknife because I'm hoping to peel, versus plane
off the bark. The bark peels pretty easily. I might have used a large
wooden spoon, but then this isn't the old spoons list.
Best,
Paddy

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 6:02 PM Michael Suwczinsky 
wrote:
276332 gary allan may 2022‑09‑15 Re: WTB Bark Spud
Paddy:
  
  Whatever. Use the drawknife. If it's dull, so much the better. gluck widdat--
gam in OlyWA/USA


How horrible it is to have so many people killed!---And what a blessing one
cares for none of them!
Jane Austen 

    On Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 10:22:36 AM PDT, Patrick Olguin
 wrote:
 
 I'm doing some spudding this week. I have been asked to debark some of the
olive wood logs left over from the demise of the
tree-that-invaded-our-sewer-line, to start them on their journey from
former tree to future rustic live-edge furniture accoutrement. I received
one in the mail, and I'll be making a handle for it this week, hewn from
the same tree. Hoping to retain most of my blood and all of my appendages.
I selected a spud over a drawknife because I'm hoping to peel, versus plane
off the bark. The bark peels pretty easily. I might have used a large
wooden spoon, but then this isn't the old spoons list.
Best,
Paddy

On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 6:02 PM Michael Suwczinsky 
wrote:

> As I recall, this tool is a round, circular edge on end of a metal bar.
> Perhaps a wooden handle attached to that?
>
> Sort of thing your local blacksmith could knock out in an afternoon. How
> long a barking spud we’re you thinking?
>
>
> Michael
>
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 1:02 PM scottg  wrote:
>
> > I have never had a lot of use for a bark spud, even though I have had
> > them in the past and I know people who use them.
> >  Bark spud is more a "pry the bark off"  tool, sort of like a crowbar.
> >
> >
>
> --
> Michael
>
>
> 
>
>
>
276333 Michael Blair <branson2@s...> 2022‑09‑15 Re: WTB Bark Spud
>  Whatever. Use the drawknife. If it's dull, so much the better. gluck widdat--
gam in OlyWA/USA

Depends on what one wishes to accomplish, and what sort of bark the tree
has.  Spuds and drawknives or scorps don't do the same thing.  Spuds are
most useful in removing big chunks of bark by peeling the bark away from
the wood.  Very useful in removing, for example, cork.  Also for
removing other oak bark to use in tanning in ye olde dayes.  Spuds won't
leave behind the signature of edged tools, but leave the natural surface
of the wood under the bark.  (Is that what you had in mind in
recommending a dull drawknife?) 

Mike in Woodland

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