Call that a spoon?

[Justin Time]

This is a spoon!

Giant love spoon world record bid

A 44ft (13.41m) love spoon being carved outside Cardiff Castle is due to be completed in the next few days.

Ed Harrison from Pontsian, Ceredigion, is attempting to break the world record for the largest wooden spoon which currently stands at 25ft 9in (7.86m).

Using a chainsaw, Mr Harrison is carving the spoon out of a felled Red Cedar tree from the Caerphilly area.

It has taken him over a week to finish the spoon which features a heart, cage, dragon and links, all symbolising love.

More info here

 

[spamel]

Wouldn't like to oil that after he's finished carving it!

 

[JonnyP]

Wouldn't like to oil that after he's finished carving it!

Or eat with it....

 

[penvisser]

would like to see his chestpocket, where he put's it away in....

 

[redneck]

the thing is , I've got a mouth that it would probably fit in!

 

[Tengu]

Its dumb, in an appealing sort of way.....

 

[ForgeCorvus]

Last paragraph holds a challenge for Doctor Spoon

What do you lot think ?

 

[Shewie]

Not a crook knife in sight, cheating bugger


Rich

 

[SOAR]

You can't beat a chainsaw for carving, thats imperssive, one serious spoon.

 

[robin wood]

I prefer this Swedish one, I have always thought love spoons were naff, tacky, kitch, with no where near as much history to them as is often claimed. Now Welsh cawl spoons that's a different matter.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Gullabo_Sweden_wooden_stirring_spoon.jpg

 

[SOAR]

That is nice, like a Henry Moore spoon in wood.

 

[DoctorSpoon]

Last paragraph holds a challenge for Doctor Spoon

What do you lot think ?

I go with William Morris and most admire what is beautiful AND useful. A large-scale spoon sculpture might be both if it is well done like the Swedish one Robin posted a link to. The function of this is to provoke thought about the object by presenting it in an unusual scale, and it works because it is still an object of beauty. I suspect neither the large-scale or the small scale Welsh ones will be objects of beauty, few of the modern ones are, so they will also fail in their function to provoke any thought about the original object other than (with the large one) 'that must have taken a lot of sandpaper' ...