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I haven't posted on here for too long but I thought I would post some pics of a recent spoon that I have made. Its made from Cherry and its the last in a batch from the same wood. The decoration on the handle is a design that I have been working on and its chip carved and kolrosed with coffee...

Some pics of a Birch serving spoon I finished yesterday. Its tool finished and is 250mm long. Thanks for looking.

3 recent spoons, bottom two are Hazel and the top one is Sycamore. chip carved and painted with oil paint.

I ran a spoon carving course yesterday and I thought that I would share with you a few pics from the day. It was a great day and I was impressed with the level of skill that was achieved by someone with no carving experience. I love teaching and seeing students get better and seeing good axe...

Great Fan birds Mark very nice indeed!

Nice spoons Hugo.

I am shocked and stunned by Drew's passing! my heart felt condolences go out to his family. Drew was a great guy and like everyone who knew him has already said he was full of enthusiasm didn't have a bad bone in his body. I don't remember what year this was but it was at Middlewood and was...

I finished this Lilac serving spoon the other week thought I would get a picture up here. I love Lilac it finishes very nice.

I'm glad you enjoyed the course and you found it useful Keith, I really enjoyed teaching you and I'm sure I'll see you at Spoonfest or at the Elvaston show.

Its Cherry Plum Prunus cerasifera pretty sure of it, its nice wood, only small ornamental trees really.

Thats a great looking knife well done, very well made!

Thanks dancan i'm glad you enjoy my blog :)

I use a few different axes from Svante Djarv to GB axes, I think its just personal prefference thing, I like different axes for different tasks (carving wise) The Gb swedish carving axe is a very good axe and one I use alot, Svante Djarv's axes are made from very good steel and hold an excellent...

Just a few pictures from todays course. It was a great days carving . I have put more on my blog here

Thanks again everyone for the comments. bear2012 there are a few threads on here about good carving woods but Lime Poplar and Alder are good ones to start with.