I thought I'd post a few pictures of some recent spoons I carved. I used elbow adze, a few bent knives and a straight knife. I do the vast majority of the bowl hollowing with the elbow adze now.
http://youtu.be/9Tnz-itngcI
Ladles in beech and birch. Birch as everyone knows is fantastic to work with, I just seem to find it difficult to source decent logs, they are usually very spindley, branchy or raggy.
Large ladle, birch, actually more of a scoop/spade size.
Medium sized, in beech, cherry, and the bottom 2 are "tree of heaven", which is a strange non native invasive species which until earlier this week was totally unknown to me. It has a fine fairly soft birch-like texture which carves well (and smells of peanuts...!) but also has a pronounced strong ring porous grain similar to that of ash. It would appear to dry extremely hard with a potential glassy surface, (none of these are finished yet) and shows attractive flecks similar to those in sycamore or beech.
Little baby ones, beech, 2 cherry and laurel. The laurel one is about the size of a standard tea spoon. Looking at the top one, its still too clunky, needs shaving down more.
http://youtu.be/9Tnz-itngcI
Ladles in beech and birch. Birch as everyone knows is fantastic to work with, I just seem to find it difficult to source decent logs, they are usually very spindley, branchy or raggy.
Large ladle, birch, actually more of a scoop/spade size.
Medium sized, in beech, cherry, and the bottom 2 are "tree of heaven", which is a strange non native invasive species which until earlier this week was totally unknown to me. It has a fine fairly soft birch-like texture which carves well (and smells of peanuts...!) but also has a pronounced strong ring porous grain similar to that of ash. It would appear to dry extremely hard with a potential glassy surface, (none of these are finished yet) and shows attractive flecks similar to those in sycamore or beech.
Little baby ones, beech, 2 cherry and laurel. The laurel one is about the size of a standard tea spoon. Looking at the top one, its still too clunky, needs shaving down more.
