this spoon really caught my eye and appealed to me on a family day out to St fagans last weekend:
i thought i would try to replicate it:
this is about 7 inches long, unfortunately i think the handle is a bit heavy and it has less appeal because it does not (yet) have the patina caused by years of use. i do like this bowl shape, pefect for "slurping" cawl.
i do not know but i am currently assuming that the more wealthy in society had spoons with turned handles and the poorer carved spoons. i draw this conclusion because of the ammount of time (& extra effort & work) it took to make compared with a carved spoon. (this spoon is made in one plane, the first attempt with the centres offset came loose and fired itself across the yard landing in a bunch of filfth. i have not entirely got my head round the offset).
i would really like to make 4 or 6 all matching to go in a rack. we'll see. i filled out the rest of the afternoon carving a 6 inch hazel eater for my boy and a slightly larger eater from cherry:
critique more than welcome. photos taken with a mobile telephone so sorry about the quality.
Paul
i thought i would try to replicate it:
this is about 7 inches long, unfortunately i think the handle is a bit heavy and it has less appeal because it does not (yet) have the patina caused by years of use. i do like this bowl shape, pefect for "slurping" cawl.
i do not know but i am currently assuming that the more wealthy in society had spoons with turned handles and the poorer carved spoons. i draw this conclusion because of the ammount of time (& extra effort & work) it took to make compared with a carved spoon. (this spoon is made in one plane, the first attempt with the centres offset came loose and fired itself across the yard landing in a bunch of filfth. i have not entirely got my head round the offset).
i would really like to make 4 or 6 all matching to go in a rack. we'll see. i filled out the rest of the afternoon carving a 6 inch hazel eater for my boy and a slightly larger eater from cherry:
critique more than welcome. photos taken with a mobile telephone so sorry about the quality.
Paul