Spoon making again

[Hugo]

Had a go at making a large kitchen spoon, was not sure what wood it was as it was already de barked, turns out it is eucalyptus, have to thank SHMBO for telling me, it was a right B to carve as the wood had seasoned some in a log pile from a neighbours garden, Hugo spied it by looking over a wall as he was aware of a tree being lopped a few months earlier.
SAK is for scale purposes only. One coat of tung oil, wipe on wipe off.

 

[Pict]

Very nice spoon. I have loads of Eucalyptus here but have never found any that was not cracked and fractured.

 

[crosslandkelly]

Nice spoon, love the scales on the sak.

 

[Dannytsg]

Nice work again Hugo

 

[scott - coates]

i love how simple it looks, even though there is obviously lots of work went into it. love it, want it.

 

[Kepis]

nice one mate, now go whittle that log it's sitting into 3 dozen cherry spoons

 

[Rockmonkey]

Nicely done there mate!

RM

 

[Bluemerle]

thats a lovely looking spoon.

 

[Hugo]

Thanks for the kind words fellas.
The spoon was going to be much bigger, BUT bad axe work by myself left a couple of, at first hidden fractures, when I realised how deep they were I removed quite a bit of the bowl sides, that is why there is a steep drop from the handle to the bowl.
Still turned out nice in the end.
I finished off another smaller one to be used at breakfast for the owners of the tree of spoons.

 

[Hugo]

@ Kepis, with regards to the cherry log that is in the picture, it was supposed to be cut dead standing, I think not as it split as you can see at both ends, and I cover it to keep the sun off, the big round that I gave you came from this log, and I remember you telling me yours split from end to end, glad it only cost me two cups of tea.
Now the spalted beech is a different story, just put quite a few spoons and a spatula in the boot for the young chap who supplied that to me.

 

[ex member pyrophil]

Nice spoon, i will have to get my saw out at the weekend, get some bits of wood cut up for the winter.

 

[fishfish]

now thats perfect!

 

[Hugo]

Thanks Mr fish, not quite perfect but I like it a lot.