I went out and cut down one birch one day with the purpose to make some krympburkar, shrink-cans. Found a birch that was growing under one pine so one day or another had my mom and dad been forced to cut down it in any case.

So therefore I cut it down and took of all the branches and then I cut of the smallest part of the tree because that isn’t so much wood to work with. I also looked to see if there was some wood that had been crooked because that’s nice to have and make spoons of. I found two crooked parts. None of them was so interesting, but they will be ok to at least make two spoons just for fun.

After I threw away the branches I started to make the cans. First I used the drawknife to remove the birch bark and to make some edges on them. After that I drilled with the navare, (don’t know the English word for that kind of drill,) a hole through the stem and after that I used the knife to carve out some material so I could make the bottom of the can.

making a shrink-can, krympburk


I didn’t take so many pictures I noticed after I was finished. I tend to forget the time when I start to work with these kinds of things. Because it’s so great to work and then taking photos I forget about. But now it had been nice to have more of them to illustrate how I made the cans. I will do more of them, and then I will try to take more pictures and update.

shrinkcans


This is some of the cans I made and the picture deceives the eye, they look bigger then they are. I think the biggest of them isn’t more than 9 cm high. I made four small ones and four bigger ones. Think these ones became very cute. But I will make more of the bigger ones, they are better to work with when it comes to the decoration.