Busy Morning

[Kepis]

Busy morning today got a Birch eating spoon that i started the other day finished;

then roughed out four medieval style cooking spoons from Willow

and then roughed out a small eating spoon from an off cut of the same Willow log.

 

[Clouston98]

Cracking work mate! You do some stunning spoonage!

 

[ozzy1977]

Cracking job

 

[craeg]

Lovely as usual mate :You_Rock_

 

[Harvestman]

Great work, but I'm really liking that last spoon.

 

[Kepis]

Cheers chaps

@Mike, yup, i quite like that one too, amazing the difference a radial split makes to the wood.

 

[Mesquite]

Very nice work Mark, very nice indeed

 

[Dave Budd]

nice clean carvings good to see. I love the fact that your 'roughed out' spoon is closer to finished than a lot of some folk would call done

 

[British Red]

Very nice Mark - but cooking spoons need corners too

 

[Kepis]

Cheers guys.

@Dave - hopefully by the time it has dried and been finished it will look a lot better than it currently does.

@Red - Couldn't agree more

 

[British Red]

Its funny when you think of it, a completely round bowl on a cooking spoon makes no sense at all. It makes it hard to scrape anything which is "sticking" off the base of a pan, you cannot get into the angle of the wall and base of a pan when stirring and when serving, its hard to "shovel up" food like rice when you get to the last portion. It makes some sense in an eating spoon as it fits into the mouth more easily, but none for a cooking utensil.

 

[Paddytray]

Lovely work red I am envious of your skills .

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[British Red]

Lovely work red I am envious of your skills .

I have no skills - but Kepis does

 

[Paddytray]

Doh ! teach me to read while half asleep sorry kepis .

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[Kepis]

I have no skills - but Kepis does

You have loads of skills

 

[Kepis]

Doh ! teach me to read while half asleep sorry kepis .

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No prob

 

[Angst]

lolol...the back of that is pure grace m8

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[welchyd1]

Lovely bit of spooning.

 

[mr dazzler]

lolol...the back of that is pure grace m8

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I agree, it is, even though there are visble facets and planes, the over all form is solid and done with conviction. I'm still trying to decide wether a sanded or unsanded finish really is best
I have used willow quite a lot, I got some tons of cricket bat willow from Lopham Fen, some of it cuts from the base of the tree, with ripplled figuring, a lot denser than willow usually is

 

[Angst]

DID HE SAY SANDED FINISH!!!! quick kep, another one, grab him!! lol

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I agree, it is, even though there are visble facets and planes, the over all form is solid and done with conviction. I'm still trying to decide wether a sanded or unsanded finish really is best
I have used willow quite a lot, I got some tons of cricket bat willow from Lopham Fen, some of it cuts from the base of the tree, with ripplled figuring, a lot denser than willow usually is