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The past couple of days, I began peeling bark off of the logs for the rafters of my living roof. I’m using a borrowed drawknife, a long, curved, two-handled blade for peeling back the bark. It’s sorta like whittling, only on a bigger scale. The idea is to peel back both the bark and cambium, which is just below the bark. That leaves only the smooth wood remaining. It’s pretty exciting to imagine these logs in the final building some day.
That thing is scary looking. I would surely cut off my finger.