Not my first ones but my older photos are on an external hdd and I don't have the cradle at the moment so will fire up these newer ones.
This is horse-chestnut. Been trying to finish my recent stuff off without sanding and this worked well-ish. The wood is nice enough to carve but the pith(IS IT PITH?) shrank as it dried. Very nearly went right through the bowl so it nearly became a t-bag strainer. Use it alot and feels nice. My porridge spoon.
The next is my favourite spatula, made from well dried cherry. I love carving cherry. Very hard when dry but the colour is great and seems to seal very well from the balde. Finished straight off the axe. A GB swedish carving axe, the leftie version (very nice axe by the way).
Experimented dying the wood with elderberry juice. Seems to have worked.
Last one is a spatula/spoon/shovel thingy made from hazel. Did the majority of this in some beautiful woodlands (see below).
A friend of mine tried to make his first spatula from the other side of this. A leftie carving axe does not work well for a rightie.
Hazel carves like butter in comparison to seasoned cherry, was a real pleasure, but was difficult to finish without sanding, the grain didn't like me, so I sanded it. Gets used alot too, great for serving chilli.
I'll post some more when I get the cradle back.
Advice and comments more than welcome and I hope you like em.
Cheers
This is horse-chestnut. Been trying to finish my recent stuff off without sanding and this worked well-ish. The wood is nice enough to carve but the pith(IS IT PITH?) shrank as it dried. Very nearly went right through the bowl so it nearly became a t-bag strainer. Use it alot and feels nice. My porridge spoon.
The next is my favourite spatula, made from well dried cherry. I love carving cherry. Very hard when dry but the colour is great and seems to seal very well from the balde. Finished straight off the axe. A GB swedish carving axe, the leftie version (very nice axe by the way).
Experimented dying the wood with elderberry juice. Seems to have worked.
Last one is a spatula/spoon/shovel thingy made from hazel. Did the majority of this in some beautiful woodlands (see below).
A friend of mine tried to make his first spatula from the other side of this. A leftie carving axe does not work well for a rightie.
Hazel carves like butter in comparison to seasoned cherry, was a real pleasure, but was difficult to finish without sanding, the grain didn't like me, so I sanded it. Gets used alot too, great for serving chilli.
I'll post some more when I get the cradle back.
Advice and comments more than welcome and I hope you like em.
Cheers
keep em coming 
