I've been saving up my birch logs, have one long straight one I scrounged and a bunch of various sizes from my tree. I can cut them to the length I want the planter to be, but have never tried to hollow out a lot. Some aren't suitable for much of anything the way they grew. I want it to be styled like this:
I don't have a lathe, don't want to buy one or learn how to use it. I have a drill. I searched the archives and read about using an adz, and Exocet, and a forstner bit. I've seen photos of how Russians make birch bowls using an adz, but this would be a little more complicanted. First the cut on both ends in a slant and rounding out into a horizontal cut, then hollowing it out.
My wordworking skills are very minimal. Can someone advise me if I can do this without buying too many more tools? I can borrow a circular saw. Maybe it would be too much to tackle a project like this. Advice, anyone?
Is there something like exacto knives only for doing bigger pieces? I don't know if I used the right terminology, but my nephew had a set of them for small projects with wood with all different kinds of razor sharp blades.