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jamie:
doing a half dugout for an indoor exhibit. this one was started with chainsaw kerfs to save time. burning the whole thing is actually better. that way the wood burns to a more natural shape. chainsawing saves some time but the burn doesnt work as well. when these two projects are done ill be burning out a 12 footer for myself. this one is pine mine will be tulip. the tulip one will be coming from a large tree we dropped to harvest bark for the longhouse.

fanning the flames


scraping out the char with a fire hardened stick


shaping the nose

radius:
pretty cool stuff, man...you on vacation?

jamie:
nope. Work all day then work on projects when i can

jamie:
shaped the nose some more today but quit early.

mullet:
 Jamie, It seems most of the older dugouts down here were made from pine. A fire was built around the tree till it fell, thus , not having to chop a big tree down with stone tools. And then it was worked with hot coals and stone adze's. The heat also hardened and helped waterproof it sealing the resin. It makes more sense to me the stone tools were used to scrape and chop the burned, softened wood than chopping hard pine or cypress. And after that, it would have took just elbow grease to take sand and water and "wet sand"the soot  and smooth the inside.

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