another spoon

[forginhill]

Here's another spoon I made with mesquite. I ended up giving this one to my mom for Christmas along with a couple more.

 

[Fraxinus]

I like the flow of the handle to bowl and how the bowl follows the grain of the wood, I bet your Mom is well pleased with it.
Pardon my ignorance but does Mesquite work like a fruit wood or an ash or oak? We don't get it this side of the pond.

Rob

 

[Robson Valley]

Very, very clean work. Well done.

 

[Pete11]

THAT is one cool looking spoon my friend.

Fantastic grain on it.

Almost heart shaped as well, mom will be happy.

Pete

 

[forginhill]

Thanks, guys. Rob, I'm not the most experienced with various woods. I have worked with oak, and I would say there is a similarity. Since this spoon came from a thick log, it was fairly straight grained, but mesquite is usually swirly grained and a challenge to work.

Here are the other two spoons I gave her. The small one I made on her kitchen floor while I was there on Christmas day. She cooks a lot and likes to use wooden spoons, so she was pretty happy. The wood is from their next door neighbor's tree that blew over in a storm. I cut it up with my chainsaw and just about gave myself a hernia loading it into my little pickup. Took multiple trips because the wood was so heavy. We heat our house with a wood stove and use pine and mesquite. The pine is quick burning and convenient. Then before bed we put in a mesquite log and it's still a nice big red coal in the morning.

 

[Clouston98]

Cracking spoonage mate!

 

[bikebum1975]

I like the flow of the handle to bowl and how the bowl follows the grain of the wood, I bet your Mom is well pleased with it.
Pardon my ignorance but does Mesquite work like a fruit wood or an ash or oak? We don't get it this side of the pond.

Rob

hey Rob I'd say hardness wise it's more like oak I've used a bit of it I'd lovely wood but way different than fruitwoods and such. If fully seasoned when I got mine just wow lol