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?
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> Sort of thing your local blacksmith could knock out in an afternoon. How
> long a barking spud we’re you thinking?
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> Michael
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> On Tue, Sep 13, 2022 at 1:02 PM scottg  wrote:
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> > 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.
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> Michael
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