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Alexander Yerks
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Добавлен 8 мар 2010
Hey Folks,
Welcome to my film channel. It's a mix of my daily life.
Mixing my vision (film and stills) + Music + Wood Culture
A lot of my films are more of a snapshot in time, more than a how to. So I hope I can help inspire others to get out in the wilderness, pick up some hand tools, and learn the old handcraft. I am a professional photographer and international wood carving teacher in the green woodworking community. You can find more info about workshops, and also purchase hand carved kuksas and spoons over in my webshop. www.alexyerks.com
Welcome to my film channel. It's a mix of my daily life.
Mixing my vision (film and stills) + Music + Wood Culture
A lot of my films are more of a snapshot in time, more than a how to. So I hope I can help inspire others to get out in the wilderness, pick up some hand tools, and learn the old handcraft. I am a professional photographer and international wood carving teacher in the green woodworking community. You can find more info about workshops, and also purchase hand carved kuksas and spoons over in my webshop. www.alexyerks.com
The Kuksa!
A little film showcasing my hand carved kuksas. You can grab one from my website www.alexyerks.com/shop
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Видео
Kuksa
Просмотров 258Год назад
I wanted to make a film to showcase my spoon and kuksas (cups) that I carve with axe and knife only. You can purchase my carvings at www.alexyerks.com/shop Music by me.
pocket spoons
Просмотров 191Год назад
I wanted to make a film showcasing my hand carved eating spoons. They’re made with axe and knife only. They’re available to purchase at www.alexyerks.com/shop
Timber Frame Blues
Просмотров 257Год назад
Some friends of mine were teaching a Norwegian Timber Framing class at North House Folk School and they asked me to come down and hang. I brought my trusty Grae Dog and my resonator guitar to play some improvised slide blues. I’ve always loved old work songs and their purpose. They keep up morale, productivity, and give people something positive for their minds to wander off to. So I chopping o...
Timber Frame Blues Two - KJ Gives Up
Просмотров 379Год назад
Some friends of mine were teaching a Norwegian Timber Framing class at North House Folk School and they asked me to come down and hang. I brought my trusty Grae Dog and my resonator guitar to play some improvised slide blues. I’ve always loved old work songs and their purpose. They keep up morale, productivity, and give people something positive for their minds to wander off to. So I chopping o...
Out On The Weekend with Marc Delgado - The Yurt Sessions
Просмотров 512Год назад
This is Neil Young's "Out On The Weekend" recorded with Marc Delgado on the side of a small mountain in Woodstock New York back in January 7, 2016 when I was living in a yurt. I was living a pretty solitary life at that point out in the woods focusing on my wood carving work. Marc would come around to keep me company, and he was starting to write a bunch for an album that is out now! I look bac...
Carvers Log 031821 - Episode 2
Просмотров 9113 года назад
Carvers Log 031821 - Episode 2 I decided to take you along for another day in the woods. This time I went on one of my "get lost on purpose" kind of walks. It was raining the entire time and I realized half way though I shouldn't have been wearing my headphones as the cheap microphone not only sounds awful, but when it brushes up against my jacket, it makes a lot of racket. But for you the view...
A Quick Spoon Blank
Просмотров 1 тыс.3 года назад
I thought I'd share how I make my spoon blanks. Normally I do my axe work everyday, all year round, the same as I've done since around 2009. The axe to me is the greatest extension of the human body, and the oldest tool we know of in existence. When I'm axing, it takes me away to a far place. My escape vehicle, and I can chop, split, carve, and even shave with it just as fast as I can think. If...
Playing a turtle shell kalimba
Просмотров 3323 года назад
Winter time in the Catskills in 2017 playing a kalimba made of rake tines, tobacco tin rattles, and a turtle shell made by some tribe in Africa.
Carvers Log - Star Date - 022521 - Episode One
Просмотров 7563 года назад
Hello carvers of the Treen Revolution * Carver’s Log 022521 * It is Alex, your captain speaking. I have been having some really great late night conversations with someone lately about handcraft and life, woke this morning I felt really inspired to create. So I wanted to go harvest more materials to make some spoons for some people that missed out on my last sale from my webshop. Then a brillia...
A Big Thank You!
Просмотров 4333 года назад
I wanted to write thank you here for all the people who support what I’m doing, but I thought just writing it wouldn’t feel genuine so I made a quick, unedited, unscripted, on the first take, unposed film for you! Yep, I know it’s not sharp, you can hear the fan from my light, and the crop is off and cutting off half my head, but I don’t care. (hence why haven’t made many films of myself carvin...
Automata Cecilia Schiller
Просмотров 4933 года назад
This is a short film I made for a very talented woodworker named Cecilia Schiller from St Paul Minnesota. She specializes in Automata which are a self operated mechanical object, or in other words hand cranky. They date back to ancient times, and Cecilia makes her's from wood. Now take a look and step inside the mind of Cecilia Schiller.
Kuksarado
Просмотров 7254 года назад
My latest collection of spalted kuksas, pocket spoons and mini cups are now available at www.alexyerks.com/secret-shop - Sign up for my newsletter for first dibs! Here's a little film showing off some of the details and parts of the cups that are often too difficult to show in photographs. Music by me.
Beck "Lord Only Knows" A Jet Lag Curse
Просмотров 6444 года назад
Here is a version of Beck's "Lord Only Knows" A Jet Lag Curse recorded after a long flight over the Atlantic from London to New York. With some footage shot in Scotland, and some in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Credit to Nicky Gibson for the Catskill Footage. All instruments, vocals and sounds were made by me, so it's a true cover.
Kuksa Collection Now Available at alexyerks.com!
Просмотров 5144 года назад
You can buy my kuksas and spoons over at www.alexyerks.com/shop
Vampire Blues - Neil Young - The Yurt Sessions
Просмотров 4,7 тыс.4 года назад
Vampire Blues - Neil Young - The Yurt Sessions
"Wooden Heart" Original song by Alexander Yerks
Просмотров 2934 года назад
"Wooden Heart" Original song by Alexander Yerks
Sharpening Swan Neck Gouges with Hewn and Hone
Просмотров 4074 года назад
Sharpening Swan Neck Gouges with Hewn and Hone
International Bowl Carving Conference
Просмотров 5404 года назад
International Bowl Carving Conference
Hewn and Hone Axe Jig - Get Your Axe Sharp!
Просмотров 4654 года назад
Hewn and Hone Axe Jig - Get Your Axe Sharp!
Even the squirrels go nuts for kuksas!
Просмотров 4134 года назад
Even the squirrels go nuts for kuksas!
Living Craft - Episode One - Spoon Carver - Patrick Diette
Просмотров 7 тыс.4 года назад
Living Craft - Episode One - Spoon Carver - Patrick Diette
Trailer for my new Handcraft Series on Spoon Medicine Episode 1 with Patrick Diette
Просмотров 8794 года назад
Trailer for my new Handcraft Series on Spoon Medicine Episode 1 with Patrick Diette
Sharpening Swan Neck Gouges - With Hewn & Hone
Просмотров 14 тыс.6 лет назад
Sharpening Swan Neck Gouges - With Hewn & Hone
Drinking from my hand carved kuksas
Просмотров 1,5 тыс.6 лет назад
Drinking from my hand carved kuksas
International Bowl Carving Conference 2018
Просмотров 1,4 тыс.6 лет назад
International Bowl Carving Conference 2018
Carving with my Nic Westermann Swan Neck Gouge
Просмотров 6 тыс.6 лет назад
Carving with my Nic Westermann Swan Neck Gouge
Huuuuyyyyyyyyyyyy huuuufffffffffffff que filo de la herramienta y práctica
Huuuuyyyyyyyyyyyy huuuufffffffffffff me gusta esa profesión cuantas tipos de hachas y suelas se llaman en Colombia
This was very informative, thank you.
Dutch the music.
I like to learn the carving techniques but this became unwatchable with the other video overlaid. The music was fine.
Excellent demo and explanation fellows! Thank you!
Awesome!
Most satisfying video on the internet goes to:
Thanks for the info.
I think you're mistake is to play music because the presenter is drowned out, I want to hear what you're saying 😢
Too bad you didn't show us how you tap the damn tree😢😢😢😢😢😢 it's like movie magic One s the whole what they're there we go how'd you get the perfect whole don't worry about it it's magic.
So often one gets told what, seldom do you get both the what and the why. Top class - thank you.
WT🤔
B and G on the 12 are flat.
Oi there, man, just found your channel! ❤️ 🙏 Needless to say I will get on your nerves more frequently now... ☺️ Really great work, I am very glad I found you. ❤️ 🙏
Thank you that’s nice of you to say. I’m hoping to start uploading here more often
@@alexanderyerks Looking forward to your content! ❤️ 🙏
Great work guys you took the original and made it more Neil Young circa Tonight’s the Night 😀
Hey thanks!!
𝕡𝐫ｏ𝕄ｏ𝔰𝓶
I have missed your. Videos. Am inspired by your skills.
Thanks for saying that. I am looking forward to making more!
Great job guys!! Good to see you Alex!!! I love to play that song!!!
Hey thanks! I’ll have to look through my hard drives for more recorded tunes!
Nice job, boys.
Thanks Abigail!! ❤️
Magical.
Thanks!
Great to see you creating content again, miss your carving videos big time.
Thanks so much! Slowly getting back into the swing of things when I have free time after carving
I chop wood well to the live version of "The Union Forever" by Jack White. Damn it's good to see you active again Alex.
I’ll have to look that up! Thanks so much for the kind words!!
👏👏👏👏 Gonna get me a resonator one day. Probably a Gretsch Honey Dipper
This one is a republic and it’s super nice. Love gretsch guitars too!
I was just showing my youngest son one of Kjetil's carving knives I have. My favorite!
KJ rocks!!
Esse design com as bordas é ótimo!
Welcome back!!
Hey thank you! I need to get back to making more videos again!
Dude that looks like a ton of fun
It was!
What part of the adirondacks is this??
I forget! It was so many years ago!
Beautiful puukko made by Joonas Kallioniemi!
It sure is! I wish I could get ahold of him!! It’s my favorite knife. Haven’t heard from him in years
@@alexanderyerks I think he doesn't make knives anymore.
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Nice ! Greetings from Sweden 😊
Hello from USA!
What brand of hook knife to you use or prefer.thanks
My friend this is really really cool, great cover. I am definitely going to study this video so I can do it like you do it
Thank you. That’s really kind to say!
Can you make them with a more aggressively bent spoon?
Thanks for the video. We’re moving to Alaska and bought some property with a lot of birch trees. Looking forward to trying this traditional tap.
USELESS HE LEFT OUT HOW HE DRILLED THE HOLE .......GARBAGE VIDEO
What did you tap the tree with...???
Never seen a bigfeets, but I seen a ogre a few times :-)
Haha! Love it
Alex i know Bing is proud of you. This is amazing
Thank you. That’s really nice to say
I keep coming back to watch. To help me remember. Keep carving friends.
Thanks for such a great comment!
So confident and smooth. Good job son,
Thank you for such kind words
Man, the socks part was amazing
Hahah thanks!
Hope you feel better. Will have to try the black birch. How do you like the Little Viking? I have one coming soon.
Thanks so much! Little Viking rocks!
Good axe
Helloo im from indonesia
Hello from USA!
Im so enjoy watching your video
I was looking for this, an idea rose to my mind of a channel where a craftsman works to peaceful ambience and here you are ☀️
Cheers and thanks so much!
so you make a video and only finish making the kuksa halfway? What did i miss?
I wish I could add in the rest but the footage burned up in a house fire so I’m plan to make a new film someday to show the rest of the process
Can't hear anything....hmmm