Quiet Carving - Hewing a Black Walnut Bowl with Hand Tools

Here's a full 20 minute quiet carving episode. This process includes 400% more carving than the 5 minute version on our channel.
Mike splits some green walnut and carves it into a nordic style bowl in this episode of quiet carving with the Iron Ram Forge. Carved with handtools only, this video is chock full of nice woodworking asmr for you to relax and wind down to.
If you'd like to watch this bowl get made with narration, check out the full video here- • Hewing a Walnut Bowl- ... Mike explains his process and goes in depth on how he's using his tools.
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Iron Ram Forge is a blacksmith shop run by father and son pair Mike and Ethan Yazel. The duo operates out of their dual story workshop they built together on the family farm. In the basement they work in the hotshop with metal and glass, on the second story they work with wood to make carvings and furniture as well as fine hand engraving for jewellery and historic accoutrements.
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[@cynrich1]

That piece of wood is the most beautiful thing I've ever seen! That bowl is the most beautiful bowl I've ever seen, and it just calls out for bread to be made in it!

[@kyleighhope961]

*dude* that's some incredible axe work omg

[@chrispoteet5327]

Very nice work . Love the gransfors bruk axe.

[@roadrunner4404]

Wonderful. I want to try this craft soon. Woodturner now

[@billastell3753]

12:40 That's where I cracked the handle off my last bowl. Cried for a while but I'm back at it.

[@cathys949]

I'm left-handed, too - love to see lefties work!

[@TheIronRam]

There are dozens of us, dozens!

[@MrJonVogt]

Beautiful. I’ve never worked with black walnut before... even unfinished this is stunning!

[@TheIronRam]

It’s a must work wood for any woodworker.

[@silverphil7427]

good work, well done!

[@TheIronRam]

Thanks a lot!

[@GOLDSMITHEXILE]

what a beautiful piece of wood, looks like choclate. Nice work with the axe too

[@TheIronRam]

Hard to beat the beauty of fresh walnut, thank you.

[@tortinwall]

Not chocolate. Walnut.

[@melissarmt7330]

Non-ASMR coment. I love the sounds wood makes.

[@TheIronRam]

Me too

[@jordanmilev733]

Great job 💪beautiful piese of Art

[@TheIronRam]

Thank you kindly

[@bruhinator1805]

He deserves more subscribers

[@TheIronRam]

Thank you!

[@JasonMichaelKotarski]

sub'd out of respect/sympathy of hand hewing one of my favourite woods.

[@TheIronRam]

Thank you Jason! Carving Walnut green by hand is soft as butter with some sharp tools. You should try it!

[@Philippians--co6ww]

Beautiful work!!! Carving bowl in house, hope you are a bachelor my dude. Lol

[@TheIronRam]

Haha, thanks Marcus. This is in my shop.

[@horseblinderson4747]

Excellent for only using impact tools.

[@shaileshmd71]

I am trying to carve an Oak(?) Greenwood bowl. It is hard as hell to carve with any tool!

[@TheIronRam]

Oak is tough as heck! Good luck!

[@leroymontano9080]

Power carve oak is best

[@VWLivin]

nice video. What is that curved tool called you use to hollow out the bowl with?

[@TheIronRam]

Thank you.
The tool is called a Bowl Adze

[@jeanine6492]

Hi, I’ve been wanting to make a dough type bowl (hope you’re not rolling your eyes) for ages now. I’ve done some carving - finer work (matching broken or missing mouldings or carvings on antiques etc.) . I would like the bowl to be a large one around 90 cm long by 20-25cm wide. I’m hoping you can give me an idea of what would be an easier wood to use and if green wood should be the way to go. I’m in Australia if that helps re tree types. I know the ‘usual’ way is I should start small and work up but that’s not me - I want to make what I want to make (another eye roll I’m sure lol) and if I like my one I’ll probably make some other dough bowls if not it might be the only one I do but I’ll keep going until I get the one made I want. Thanks Jeanine

[@TheIronRam]

Hi Jeanine, no eye rolling at all! I don't know anything about Australian tree types, I'm sorry! No matter the wood type, green wood is the way to go. You want it to be as fresh as possible. Just be sure you let it dry slowly for 6-8 weeks or your bowl will crack.

[@jeanine6492]

The Iron Ram thank you that’s great information.

[@MrDejasin07]

One can't do this with regular adze?

[@TheIronRam]

You could, but the curved profile of the bowl adze is very handy if making a lot of bowls.

[@stevenogborn5892]

I need the specs. on that hatchet. Please?

[@MucTufukaTop]

with respect from Russia

[@TheIronRam]

Thanks from the USA

[@1977grad]

Do you all make adzes?

[@TheIronRam]

We do, when they are available we list them at ironramforge.etsy.com

[@horseblinderson4747]

@@TheIronRam should make some cloggers peg knives.

[@grassyknoll4702]

you must have massive forearms...

[@101411726]

Seems like a lot of talking for asmr and “quiet carving” lol.

[@susanp.collins7834]

Looks like granite...