See how easily you can make a wooden cup with fire!

What we're going to do today is make a wooden cup, but instead of carving it we're going to burn it out using traditional woodworking methods. We're using a grow-over, or what some might call a burl, from maple tree. We submerge the hard maple into a container of water and weigh down the edges to keep the top of the wood on the same level as the water. Then we place charcoal on the wood and burn it out. The water seeps into the wood and keeps it from completely burning away. When the cup is burned as far as we want it Brian scrapes out the charcoal with the leg bone of a deer and then finishes with a knife. Brian also shows us how to whittle a toggle and braid a deerskin cord to hang the cup from your belt. The toggle, or netsuke (pronounced “netsky”), is from a piece of rock maple turned on a lathe in such a way that when you cut a piece off it looks like a bear.

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Brian Stockman is a master carver with a deep knowledge of traditional wood, stone, bone, and ivory carving.

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