Recent Spoons

Spoons carved over the past few months.


Birch eaters:

Eating spoon series in Grey Birch;  radial pieces of a short log from a friend's tree that went over in a bad ice storm.

Peach Spoons:

Peach eating spoon (left), and teaspoon (right).  Lovely wood that's a joy to carve.

Eating spoon and teaspoon -- tangential, with bowl facing pith (top) and facing bark (bottom)

Reverse of Peach spoons -- beautiful wood that's a pleasure to carve.

Black Walnut stirring spoon:

I've been attracted to these flatter, paddle-like shapes, but hadn't carved on till recently.  They're great for stir-fry work, and a fun shape to make.   This one is from a radial split, with sapwood on one side;  I'll try more, but oriented with the shallow bowl toward the bark.

Black Walnut mixing spoon.

Black Walnut "paddle" stirring spoon with long handle -- 12" overall.

Boxelder Ladle:


I love these curvy, almost exotic shapes that follow the curve of the wood as it follows a "crook" in the branch.  Fun to carve, and Boxelder is lovely wood to work with.

Ladle from a Boxelder crook -- natural-edged bowl follows contour of the tree bark.

Boxelder ladle profile, showing pot hook.