greetings my friends how are you doing this is defconn setup doors I hope you're having an awesome day so today I with a very good friend of mine Martin hazel Martin how are you doing right yeah excellent stop so this is probably the first time you seen Walter on video especially here on my channel mine's a very good friend of mine we've met a couple of years ago and within the kind of spinning spoon with working for eternity and Martin even those too humble to admit himself is a very very times in craftsman a spoon Carver very good cream woodworker a very good basket maker very good everything there is based here in beautiful West Dorset now came down there early this morning I'm spending about two three days we might work on various projects and I'm a friend of ours is visiting at least offer whom you would have seen in previous videos now we had to do a multiple variety of things with Martha glass and Martha we're here at his workshop which will do a very quick tour in a second now the purpose of this video is as always looking through the multiple ways that Martin has it does a beautiful work which we're going to show close-up in a second but yes you made a toggle out of elder yeah out of Elbert yeah I thought it was this year but that's all that he bought from somewhere just to kind of animators know what made it from the elder so what we're going to do is very kind you going to take some time lighting is forget to do as demonstration of how you can make that yourself beat you at Wilde campaign or doing cross work or whatever just before we dive into that white ones here thank you well as your eyes grow time use yeah it's a beautiful day here in Dawson it's a stunning stunning weather Joris spend just about 20-30 seconds explaining kind of you and your background what it is you do yeah okay um 20 30 seconds I come sort of basket my career Lee that's kinda my what are trying to do 29th yeah 20 years ago I trying to make baskets with a friend of mine Ted Bruce a really good basket maker from from the Welsh borders and I spent 10 years running a basket workshop for adults with learning difficulties on the outskirts of London but also running in parallel with that going back way back to when I was a child I've always whittled things with a knife I think I first got my first got a knife when I was about 10 or 11 right it's always carved things and accidentally started carving spoons about 25 years ago um but before before the in dogs can say before electricity but yeah I mean oh yeah yeah most movement for Noah oh yeah I was in the arc and stuff oh is it you weren't familiar he threw it overboard yeah well sing good enough as he never made to that's the product yeah um yes so spoon carving I make a little bit of furniture like all furniture of people call it firewood when I make it so this venturi sounds one of my creationist hurdles Mike hurdles make a mess yeah that's stuff I think will make it mister yeah housework but nobody's doing pretty humble and I'll say it with these be hard because you know I'm watching pretty well and honest he's one of the most talented one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet fantastic very very skilled at what he does and yeah got a waffle experience you wait wait more than I have and it shows the quality of your work economy so it's really your thank you once again you know for vitami down and if I came with you I was just thinking just a very quick panorama of the worker sure no go for it and then walk could do we could do a quick close-up of the actual top wall that we're gonna demonstrate in this video so let's just have a quick pan around so here we've got a power let this is run by your brother isn't it that's right John yeah yeah so his brother John very talented Turner so here we put some of his work just a small sample of his beautiful work that he does so what's this over here in the actual baskets that were these these are these are gate hurdles but these are before they put together so sweet chestnuts been split and shaved to size on on shave also the dural knife ready for going together as gate hurdles which for keeping sheep in really oh wow but mostly we sell them for gardens now so here you've got some of these very few baskets that you made and yet your incredible work here mostly shopping baskets and log baskets is what I like moving forward depending when you're watching this video will be coming back down to visit miles here we're going to do some basket tutorials so that should be fun um here we go this is what that's been seasoned yeah we we tend to the the wood that John turns we week is all wood that we harvested ourselves our wires and months and we harvest a lot of stuff locally from farms around and about farm woodlands and this is just part of that I have a rather large collection of tin so this is stuff that's all sort of getting to the point of being cut up for projects so it's in here just seasoning gosh a further and here we go you kind of a workshop with some busted up lawn chairs and actually these are really comfortable you know you had to come today but we spent a half they just thickened those so they've got some stuff over here so this is actually working in this thing yeah we have this knob that going in the winter yeah it's a bit kind of budged up there you know smokes a bit but you know get kettle on that you're laughing excellent stuff so the video at hand we're looking at elder beads so these are a couple examples here so we've got amateur cooks as and these are ones that you've carved isn't it that's right yeah these are both elder you just carved as little little toggles to finish off the lanyard you know and with the cooks that you call these wild though yeah these are both at birth so this one here is all deburr this one here was given to me by a friend from the US she's a plant called Red Bud oh wow no I had not heard of it but a friend Phillip steel from Indiana brought it over last year for me why he he had a friend who was protecting a tree down Little Red Bud tree and brought via brought me a burl over in his in his luggage yes nice yeah yeah yeah and finally we've got the the bird cooks at her everyone yeah anyone that's a little tiny little tiny cooks are in which amber with these these beads on in in elder and they're dyed with natural natural dyes and this is where impress me this is the first thing you show honestly thought these were kind of off-the-shelf type beta then when you sayno you've actually made these from elder yeah that's why I was very very impressed with so if okay with you my share we go straight to tutorial let's do it let's do it so here we've got an elder which is taken a piece off so why whether we begin then okay so um yeah this is elder this time of year it's got berries on it if you take some elder you should you should mentally make a salt prayer or an offering or something because there's all sorts of traditions associated with older is it as a sacred plant so even if you you're not a sacred believer you're selfish I think it's good to do that you know I reverence that that kind of ancient tradition um I've just taking a sort of small branch off there an off off there or further down I've taken a that's what size branch you can see our relation the relationship between say my thumb right and that branch we're looking for something fairly small and then once I've cut through it I'm looking to see how much peace there is in the middle okay pith being the soft bit in the middle and I don't want it to be very big that's a bit of a vague term but sometimes you'll cut some elder and you'll find the pith forms more than half of the center and that's that's going to be too soft and and in this pith runs through elder right up to adult trees and it's one of the reasons it's such a good timber for making beads because of this because of this pin is it a bit unique isn't it was obviously most pistol quite hotly yeah they are and it's it's very reminds very spongy or use this this is my secret weapon and you'll see that you know you can poke that in there stick it on a stick you know which is which is part of the secret to carving these beads okay shall I shall I crack on with like do it listen let's use this thicker end and I I'm using quite a small knife as a nick western blade little a little knife I'm going to take that take the bark off first and I'm going into the wood itself and you know you could this stage think quite early on about you want to make a round bead or a round toggle or octagonal one or just see how it turns out make sure you take all the bark off is that what naturally peel off anyway it will it'll sort of fall off but make sure you get it all off and then if did let's say you're going to make a bead a circular bead circular ish bead imagine the top of that stick as the one side of the bead if you like and what I'm going to do is carve it circular but I'm going to start by just taking off facets like that I'm doing this thumb push thing that you might be familiar with if you're a slim carver just pushing with my thumb which gives me a fair bit of control if you notice might in the whole time it's got it braced it's a very so coming to me here if you if you hold at least one of your hands on your thigh on your leg rather than in the air it saves a lot of energy I'm actually keeping the knife still on moving the work here which is often easier so I'm just moving it around trying to get a nice shape a nice shape once I'm sort of reasonably happy with that bit which is in that there's a safe half of it I'm going to sort of imagine where I've started carving from a little bit below there I'm going to start cutting back down into the into the wood to form the bottom off so you gotta be a bit careful here so I often brace brace that against Mothma thumb I'm kind of not pressing very hard here but I'm going to sort of carve down there like that so putting cuts in that sort of going to start to form the bottom of the bead actually annoying I'm only making little movements with the knife then I'm going to follow that by coming back in with a thumb push and cutting that material away freeing it up a bit here it's going through there Pete that process and just try and cut away a little bit more the site just be careful of this cutting tool or do you think so I'm carrying on working working move around and eventually we're going to cut it so that it will it'll come away Association is beavering away on leaving a wired it I'm not worrying too much what that top bit looks like or bottom bit you'll see why in a minute and get to the point where I can break it off and I'm going to force it off because it you know we don't to crack it it's a bit of a any regular shape at the moment but we can make it rounder you'll see here we are so it's just come away and there's the pith in the middle just put that bit down now this is my secret weapon you have to promise not to tell anybody about this this is you me in all the YouTube subscribe yeah they've got a sworn to secrecy it's a bamboo kabob skewer and I'll stick it on there like that which gives me the ability to kind of I flip the whole thing upside down means I can now and you could use a stick a bit of link right below means I can come back that's the bit I just been working on it means I can I can cut into that skewer if you like as long as I was wondering as you were doing our fall you know to hold on to that on its own I'm also going to turn it end on end and look at it so you know you see it's a bit bit irregular there I want to just clean up that edge we lost a little bit there so I'm just going to turn it round do a little bit uh - surgery on it outs outside okay so I'm just I'm just sort of touching up the shape a little bit but I would say that's more or less done and then what I'm going to do just put a knife down they're just going to make sure I get out as much poked out as much of that pith as I can with that in there this is when of course I drop the thing and then can't find it yeah I would say that's I'm just going to blow that piss out excuse me poke it out blow it out get it out yeah and then stick that in a little stick in a bowl somewhere to dry so you would leave this to dry to grab it yeah it'll be it'll be dry in a day such a tiny little thing could be dried overnight and then then I often colour them so this stuff I can't remember what the green was but the red is the food colour cochineal which was made out of the beetle and the brown lot which is worn off there's a bit of brown that is a worn as walnut husk oh well which you can get from the green outside of all that and you can also you can do sort of fancy bits like this here I've cut a little line in a long in a long topple there one bead cut a little line in that you know you've got round ones you've got long ones got around you know and yeah you know it's you can have a good old play and it's the sort of thing if you've got a bit of stick and a knife and you find a bit of older yeah you can sit there and another a peaceful hour just carving a few beads you know a lot of guys that wash its including myself with any more bush twelve down yeah sure sure as he said yes I didn't go outside yeah yeah and then you know after four or five years you've got enough for a necklace yeah that's it especially at why right give it another yeah but I see you know sometimes it's a nice thing to do if you sometimes if I'm not up to making a basket or carving a spoon I think well I just chop along the weld or off make a little prayer offering to the elder mother and chop a lump off whack have you beat it out you know come to that's it Bub's your father's brother that's it and others you want yeah you thought was your own good well turns out later she was just a cutest woman next door was just all the next-door view just came out for showing us how is she by the way she's all life that's that's nice that's nice so there you go guys house it's a toy and also an introduction to Martin Martin thank you so much it's been a pleasure is it thank you sir oh Jesus having it go yeah stuff that seriously but now thank you once again it said it's um it's opened my eyes up as soon as I sawed off all those bees are really cool so it's definitely want to pitch one this myself when I get back so I appreciate you watching I hope you enjoyed this tutorial summer for you now to go out and try it if L do is available to you and actually just before a sign of a quick question are there any alternatives that elder people could use there are other ones I've used to think I've used in the past mahoney a-- mahoney a-- Oregon grape sometimes cool okay that's that's a garden shrub what else that might I've used there wanted to force idea which is also a garden shrub was a pith in it that might be worth looking at the much they're a bit harder for some idea okay but I would say elders elders your favorite I mean you could use almost any wood and drill a hole in them like the advantage of elder is it should all set that that hole that mother nature put there yeah I know I know I think you know whoever designed the universe was thinking this is a bee tree in there yeah it's gotta be that's it it's going to end up on some bloke in Dorset's Cookson yeah and I said before the dawn amount quite and before the evolution of the big banger and so there you go so like I said thank you once again automation and so without further ado here's one thing what are you to do is Martin and his wife and also his brother they set up their own Instagram profile we're sharing that collaboratively all the beautiful work that they created it would mean the world to me if you go and check that out on the put a link to instagram below in the description just below this video i'm also going to put a link to that website you can find out a lot more about their work what it is they do and everything else that goes around it once again I highly recommend you check that out also so Instagram below point of Martin and also their website as well we can find out more about the work I hope you enjoyed the video once again best of luck let me know how you get on maybe trying this yourself and as always I hope whatever you're doing you have a blessed day a blessed week head this is ephram's outdoors and for Martin peace Cheers