Yesterday afternoons efforts

[Kepis]

Result of a couple of hours out in the bat cave yesterday afternoon, an eater and a cooker in Sycamore & Beech respectively.

556 by Mark D Emery, on Flickr

557 by Mark D Emery, on Flickr

 

[saxonaxe]

Both very good, but for me the Beech wins on the lovely grain' and as I am right handed it's shape looks ideal for me.

 

[Billy-o]

The spoons you have been posting, Kepis, have been quite an inspiration. Some of the lines you have managed to pull out of a bit of Sycamore beg applause I really like that cooker.

It isn’t something I do a lot of, but here’s a scruffy looking article I made about ten years ago. I was sitting in a friend’s back garden one early summer day in New Cross, house-sitting. Bit bored and found a piece of boxwood. I remembered my Gran had a caddy spoon and I’d always wanted one so, feeling nostalgic, I just started in on it.

It never really got finished as it was immediately pressed into service and has been in constant use since. I always fancied an ebony one, and recently rediscovered a bit. I’ll see if I can muster the right spirit.

One other thing … I didn’t realize how absurdly difficult it can be to photograph a spoon, or how unforgiving the resulting images can be

 

[Muddypaws]

Good spoons, again!

 

[Kepis]

Both very good, but for me the Beech wins on the lovely grain' and as I am right handed it's shape looks ideal for me.

Aye the Beech is lovely, rock hard and difficult to carve, but worth the effort

 

[Kepis]

The spoons you have been posting, Kepis, have been quite an inspiration. Some of the lines you have managed to pull out of a bit of Sycamore beg applause I really like that cooker.

It isn’t something I do a lot of, but here’s a scruffy looking article I made about ten years ago. I was sitting in a friend’s back garden one early summer day in New Cross, house-sitting. Bit bored and found a piece of boxwood. I remembered my Gran had a caddy spoon and I’d always wanted one so, feeling nostalgic, I just started in on it.

It never really got finished as it was immediately pressed into service and has been in constant use since. I always fancied an ebony one, and recently rediscovered a bit. I’ll see if I can muster the right spirit.

One other thing … I didn’t realize how absurdly difficult it can be to photograph a spoon, or how unforgiving the resulting images can be

Nice, doesn't matter what it looks like, if it works its a winner, its what i tell people when i instruct carving, if it looks like a spoon, works like a spoon, its a spoon.

You have just given me an idea for some of the smaller offcuts i have in the scraps box though