Birch Sporks

[Stringmaker]

I've been tinkering with some birch bits of late and rather like how these turned out:

Spot the near misses with fine splitting by the tines and guess which one I had to recover!

Main learning from this was to drill small holes before cutting the tines to prevent the splitting; I kind of knew that anyway but was impatient.

 

[Clouston98]

Brilliant work! Thanks for sharing!

 

[HHazeldean]

They look good, really nice organic curves on them too, nice work

 

[Stringmaker]

Thanks folks.

The smaller one of the three had a LOT of sanding and I like the depth of the grain that shows up.

 

[Big Stu 12]

I do like them , nice to see differnt shape as well

 

[Stringmaker]

You can't see it from those pics but they all have a slight lateral twist in them which is how they split out.

I always leave that twist in my spoony stuff as it relates back to the unworked branch and I like that connection to the tree, even after I've finished.

 

[Dreadhead]

ooo i like those

 

[Perrari]

Very Nice ! Like them a lot !

 

[CookieMonster]

They look fantastic!

 

[Zingmo]

Very different. Thanks for posting

Z

 

[milius2]

oh yeahh, tasty looking sporks!

 

[Two Socks]

Those are cool!

 

[Macaroon]

Very nice shapes, I really like those a lot, especially the smaller one, and I very much agree with your comment about leaving some connection to the tree they came from; I always try to do that, and it doesn't at all get in the way of design.............it enhances it.

 

[Stringmaker]

Thanks again folks; I think it was my initial incompetence that led me to leave the twists in my spoon work; now I like to think of it as a diagnostic feature of my style.

Pretentious? Moi?

 

[ozzy1977]

Nice one