Which wood for spoon?

[jason01]

Heres a starting point, this table is reproduced on several sites, US based though

Woods

There doesnt seem to be much hard data about concerning ingesting wood as such, probably because its difficult to do!

 

[Klenchblaize]

Heres a starting point, this table is reproduced on several sites, US based though

Woods

Uk based site

You may end up never using wood again!

:why:

Not sure I want to work with wood again!!

 

[jason01]

Thats weird, the 2nd link is on your quote of my post but not on my original post!

To minimise risk the best bet seems to be dont use power tools and dont sand, blades only

 

[jason01]

I have come across a couple of historic references to folk being poisoned after drinking wine stored in yew barrels, and Roman soldiers dying after drinking alcohol from "yew flasks" so maybe the toxins in yew are most easily dissolved in alcohol.