Been quite a while since i carved a spoon, mainly due to ill health with myself and close family members.
So this afternoon i made myself a nice new eating spoon in well seasoned spalted Sycamore, i made it slightly oversized and with a tapered handle for my arthritic hands, the spoon has an off the knife finish.
Tools used were a Polar Puukko 80 and a Ben Orford small hook knife, blank was cut out about three years ago on my bandsaw, time to complete, about 90 minutes including getting tea and biccies.
Now, pass the Codeine as i think i might pay for this later, hands are already swollen, ho hum, as the saying goes, "I have arthritis, but arthritis doesn't have me"
Piccies are not that good as im right by a big window with the sun belting in, which is lovely, but doesnt make for good photos, the pictures make the spoon look quite angular, in reality its nice and smooth with rounded lines all over, will try and get a some better photo's later/early morning when the light is better.
So this afternoon i made myself a nice new eating spoon in well seasoned spalted Sycamore, i made it slightly oversized and with a tapered handle for my arthritic hands, the spoon has an off the knife finish.
Tools used were a Polar Puukko 80 and a Ben Orford small hook knife, blank was cut out about three years ago on my bandsaw, time to complete, about 90 minutes including getting tea and biccies.
Now, pass the Codeine as i think i might pay for this later, hands are already swollen, ho hum, as the saying goes, "I have arthritis, but arthritis doesn't have me"
Piccies are not that good as im right by a big window with the sun belting in, which is lovely, but doesnt make for good photos, the pictures make the spoon look quite angular, in reality its nice and smooth with rounded lines all over, will try and get a some better photo's later/early morning when the light is better.
