tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-89404214006372858942024-03-14T10:06:35.230+00:00Carved SpoonsHandmade, personal objects for day-to-day useUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940421400637285894.post-24769597697084213482015-09-18T19:07:00.000+01:002015-10-13T19:55:27.819+01:00Driftless Spoon Gathering<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've been in the United States for about two months now, and am having a great time here. While my visa is being processed I am unable to work, so my time is currently being spent walking the dog and carving spoons.<br />
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<a name='more'></a>I had found the <a href="http://driftlessfolkschool.org/" target="_blank">Driftless Folk School</a> online and noticed that they had a monthly spoon circle in a town about 90 minutes north of Madison. I wasn't able to attend any of those, but last weekend was their annual <a href="http://driftlessfolkschool.org/driftless-spoon-gathering/" target="_blank">Spoon Gathering</a>, two days of spoon carving in La Farge, WI. </div>
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Through my <a href="https://instagram.com/tomswoodwork/" target="_blank">Instagram account</a>, I was contacted by a fellow spoon carver in Madison. <a href="https://instagram.com/derekbrabender/" target="_blank">Derek</a> was also planning on attending the Spoon Gathering and offered to drive me up there. It was great to connect with someone also interested in carving spoons that lived locally. </div>
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At the event I was asked to give some talks on knife basics and on axe work. It was great to be able to help out and a lot of fun to teach carving again. </div>
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The gathering included quite a few people who either lived in Madison, or close by. It was fantastic to find out that this corner of the United States has so many people that like the strangely specific craft that I do.<br />
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As a result of meeting so many spoon carvers Derek and I decided to setup a group for Madison spoon carvers to meet up and carve spoons together. Thus the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/128290307521181/" target="_blank">Madison Chop and Chat</a> was born. We had our first carving session together last night. I hosted the event, and five fellow carvers decided to spend their Thursday evening in my screened-in porch slicing wood and shooting the breeze. </div>
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Here are a few of the cooking spoons I was working on:</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">On Friday the 17th of July I quit my job at </span><a href="http://www.keepbritaintidy.org/home/481" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">Keep Britain Tidy</a><span style="text-align: left;"> and on the Monday I flew to Madison, Wisconsin. The lead up to the move and the past month were both very busy, so there wasn't much time for carving. </span></div>
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<a name='more'></a>This corner of the United States has a good amount of trees. Lots of maples and birches, plus species I'm not too familiar with (locust, mulberry, walnuts, etc). So between converting dollars into pounds, and pounds into kilograms I have been distracted by all the spoons hiding in the trees.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It wasn't until a couple of days ago that I managed to get hold of some suitable carving material. I was pointed towards <a href="http://wisconsinurbanwood.org/" target="_blank">Wisconsin Urban Wood</a> whose aim is 'Bringing dead trees to life'. They suggested a few partners (wood processing companies and arborists) who could help me find carving material. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In the end, I stumbled across a pile sitting in someone's front garden while taking the dog for a walk. I knocked on the door and the homeowner was more than happy for me to help myself. So I've ended up with some lumps of silver maple.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The first lump I tried to split had an overall twisted grain, plus some ripple, or flame figure in the grain. While this figure looks great, it makes for a slightly tricker carve. It was a bit of a challenge, especially being so out of practice. That said, I cranked out four spoons on my first day back in the carving seat. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Today I knocked out another two spoons before I felt comfortable again. I'm amazed at how quick muscle memory returns. Yesterday's spoons were a bit of a struggle, but today it started to feel natural again. So I decided to have at one of the crooks in the woodpile. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Splitting out the crook took a while. It was a side branch in a thicker limb, which was eventually freed. When carving a spoon from straight grained wood I usually set the crank along the top of the spoon and then refine the bottom of the spoon to fit it. Using bent wood like this the bottom of the spoon sets the overall shape.</span></div>
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I used pretty much every hollowing tool I have on this ladle. The adze is unmatched for quickly removing material. The <a href="http://nicwestermann.co.uk/shop/greenwood-carving-blades/50mm-twca-cam/" target="_blank">Nic Westermann twca cam</a> is also great at quickly removing material, but it can be tricky to get to all part of a small, deep bowl like this. The Hans Karlsson hook knife is always a pleasure to use, but new in my tool roll is a <a href="https://covert-craft.myshopify.com/products/spoon-scorp?channel=buy_button&referer=http%3A%2F%2Fcovertcraft.com%2Fstore&variant=5147044993" target="_blank">Lee Stoffer scorp</a>. This was the first time I've used it, and it is a much more versatile tool than the HK hook knife, especially for things like ladles. It is going to take me a while before I think I will be able to get the most out of it.<br />
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I'm happy with how the ladle turned out. I'm leaving in covered in wood shavings to slowly dry out a bit before doing the final cuts.<br />
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I've just moved to Madison, Wisconsin. I've been here in the States for almost two weeks now, enjoying getting to know the city a little more.</div>
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I've also been quick to mark my territory in the cutlery drawer. </div>
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Along with some of my own spoons there are spoons I own from some great craftspeople back on the other side of the Atlantic. Here's my collection laid out. Clockwise from the top we have a <a href="http://barnthespoon.com/" target="_blank">Barn the Spoon</a>, a J<a href="http://www.chatquilit.com/blog.php" target="_blank">ane Mickelborough</a>, a <a href="http://www.jojo-wood.co.uk/p/home-page.html" target="_blank">Jojo Wood</a>, a <a href="http://seanhellman.com/" target="_blank">Sean Hellman</a>, a <a href="http://woodntyouliketoknow.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Tom Standen</a>, a <a href="https://simonhillgreenwoodwork.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Simon Hill</a>, a <a href="http://www.onedaywoodcraft.co.uk/" target="_blank">Chris Allen</a> and a <a href="https://stevetomlincrafts.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Steve Tomlin</a>.</div>
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I opened up a cherry log. It really useful to make a couple of wooden wedges before starting the split. The wedges help split the log, and won't damage the axe if they come into contact.</div>
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I split the log into ten sections, ready to be turned into ten cooking spoons. </div>
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By the end of the morning I had ten spoons roughed out. </div>
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I've got five pretty much finished, with a few minor refinements still needed. I am really surprised with the variation in colour between the spoons, especially as they're all from the same log. </div>
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I was digging through my wood pile and found some oak burrs that are about a year old. I'd completely forgotten about them. The swirling grain is amazing, so I thought I'd make as many tiny spoons out of it as I could. So far I've managed six.</div>
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I've been using a lot of cherry recently, and I'm really enjoying the colours that emerge from it. I wanted to do a small production run. I asked people that follow my <a href="https://www.facebook.com/tomsgreenwoodwork" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://instagram.com/tomswoodwork/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> to pick from one of my designs and this is what they chose: </div>
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However, the off-cuts from the cherry log I was using for these eating spoons were too big for me to just add to the burn pile, so I decided to make some little scoops out of them. I'm glad I did, because these scoops are a lot of fun to make, and look great. </div>
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For a while now I've wondered what stress a wooden spoon can take. I've had a spoon in my unfinished pile that I wasn't very happy with, so rather than making the small finishing touches, I thought I'd put heavier and heavier weights on it until it breaks!<br />
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Now this is a highly unscientific experiment, but a fun, illustrative one. I wasn't controlling for much, and the results are from a group size of one, but it did answer some questions for me.<br />
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The spoon is purple plum and carved fairly thin. I clamped the spoon to table, a little further back than the fulcrum point you would have holding it and started to balance weight plates on the bowl.<br />
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The lightest plate I have is 1.25kg, already a lot more than one would balance on a spoon, but maybe comparable to the forces involved in stirring a very thick porridge. No problem</div>
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Well, 5kg is too much (7% of my bodyweight!). The spoon failed at the thinest part of the handle, right by where the clamp was. </div>
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Holding the spoon quite close to the bowl, I could lift 10kg on the bowl of the spoon. This is a ridiculous amount of weight to load on a spoon. </div>
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I don't think wooden spoons fall very often. In most cases I would imagine it would be cracks developing or damage to the edge of the bowl that gradually worsens. There are lots of other ways to test spoons to the limit, but load limit for a small eating spoon was a fun one to do.<br />
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Through the <a href="http://carvedspoons.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/charcoal-making.html" target="_blank">volunteering</a> I do for the <a href="http://www.essexwt.org.uk/" target="_blank">Essex Wildlife Trust</a> , I ended up being invited along to their Woodland Management Day at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/EWTBelfairs?ref=ts&fref=ts" target="_blank">Belfair's Woodland Centre</a>. I'd quote forgotten about it until the email reminder I received on Tuesday saying they were looking forward to seeing me on Sunday. </div>
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Last week was a bit of a busy one, as my <a href="http://eco-schools.org.uk/" target="_blank">day job</a> had me traveling around the country quite a bit. It wasn't until Friday evening that I had the time to start preparing stuff for my stall.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All I did to this elm burr scoop was sand it. First spoon I've sanded for years!</td></tr>
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I ended up with about 30 spoons in a state I was happy to try and sell them. On Saturday I had quite a few other tasks that needed to get done but I managed to write out price tags for all the stock.<br />
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On the day itself, the weather was abysmal. It was cold and raining hard. Unsurprisingly not a whole lot of people were inspired to head out into the woods so the turn out was a little poor. Fortunately for me, I was only there for fun and spent pretty much all of my time carving, drinking tea and chatting to interesting folk. Which made it a very enjoyable Sunday for me. The Trust will be running another woodland management day in March. I'll definitely be attending, and for them, I hope the weather is a little fairer.</div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Probably the best wood working knife out there at this price. </span>
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precision tools that are used by wood carvers in Nusnäs, for example.
This is where one of Sweden’s most recognized national symbols – the Dala Horse
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Woodcarving
knive with a thin, tapered blade of laminated steel. Oiled birchwood handle.
Plastic sheath.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> </span><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Blade Thickness:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">2,7mm</span><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Blade Length:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">82 mm</span><b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">Total Length:</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%;">188mm</span></blockquote>
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beginning. The first thing that I think makes the 106 great is that it’s a cheap
knife, but is top quality. The laminated steel blade takes a razor’s edge
without a great deal of effort, and holds it. The barrel shaped birch handle,
whilst plain, is comfortable to hold in a variety of grips. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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all the way through the handle, allowing you to make bigger, more powerful
cuts. I prefer this longer, thinner blade to the Mora 120 (another great woodcarving knife from Mora at a similar price).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The plastic
sheath supplied with the knife is cheap and cheerful, protecting the edge but
with no real style or grace. If the knife isn’t pushed solidly enough into the
plastic sheath it can fall out. If the knife if wedged in too tightly, just
trying to pull it straight out can be dangerous when the sheath suddenly
releases its grasp. A much safer way is to twist the handle, jiggling it as you
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handle is symmetrical, which means you can’t tell where the edge of the blade
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doing, this shouldn’t poise a problem. However I have rested my thumb on the
edge of the blade by accident on a couple of occasions. However, the handle is
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I recently held a couple of carving workshops in London. One near Old Street and another in <a href="http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/lgnl/leisure_and_culture/parks_and_open_spaces/victoria_park.aspx" target="_blank">Victoria Park</a>. Both of them were great fun and they kind of surprised me with how eager people were to learn crafts.<br />
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Both of the workshops were a part of <a href="http://keepbritaintidy.org/home/481" target="_blank">Keep Britain Tidy</a>'s <a href="http://www.wastelesslivemore.com/" target="_blank">Waste less, Live more </a>Week. The week was themed '<a href="https://www.facebook.com/WasteLessLiveMore?fref=ts" target="_blank">Be Resourceful</a>' with daily challenges. The first challenge was '<a href="https://www.facebook.com/WasteLessLiveMore/photos/pb.433963813321248.-2207520000.1412061033./832197873497838/?type=1&theater" target="_blank">Make it</a>' and that was where my workshops came in.<br />
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While I spend most of my time making spoons, butter spreaders are a better project to start with as they only need a knife and are less complicated objects to make.<br />
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I split billets of cherry ready for the event.<br />
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For the workshop in Old Street, I took bookings and the seven spaces available filled up very quickly. </div>
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Very impressed by some of the work they were able to produce in the short time available to them.</div>
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The Victoria Park workshop was slightly different. There's a patch of land currently being turned into an outdoor classroom/community garden. I was there to help encourage people to get involved in that project. </div>
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Over the course of about three hours I had seven people take part in some carving. Three of them were children, whose behaviour and attention to instruction I was very impressed with. </div>
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When I'm not <a href="http://carvedspoons.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/hewing-out-beech-bowl.html" target="_blank">carving things</a> or <a href="http://carvedspoons.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/charcoal-marking-part-2.html" target="_blank">out in the woods</a>, I'm usually found in an office in London working on <a href="http://www.eco-schools.org.uk/" target="_blank">Eco-Schools</a> for the charity <a href="http://keepbritaintidy.org/home/481" target="_blank">Keep Britain Tidy</a>. Each year in September Keep Britain Tidy has a <a href="http://www.wastelesslivemore.com/" target="_blank">Waste Less Live More week</a>. Last year the theme for the week was food and food waste. This year the week is running from 22 - 28 September and the theme is '<a href="http://www.wastelesslivemore.com/challenge/" target="_blank">Be Resourceful'</a>. </div>
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To encourage people to be resourceful and to raise awareness that what's good for the environment is good for us, I decided to teach people how to carve wooden butter spreaders, a nice introduction to green woodworking. </div>
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In preparation for the workshops I thought I'd give myself a bit of a refresher, as it's been a while since I've done spreaders. I had a nice round of cherry left over from the bits of wood I hauled away from <a href="http://carvedspoons.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/spoomfest.html" target="_blank">Spoonfest</a>. </div>
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Using an axe and a wooden club I split the round in half, and half again, until I had eight pieces of wood to work with.</div>
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I sketched out a rough design on them. I made each one was slightly different to experiment with the design a little. I went back and forth between using the axe to rough them out and solely using a knife. Some of the pieces of wood benefited from being split again, especially if I was just using the knife. </div>
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Just got back from an amazing three days at Skedfest in Sweden. It was a brilliant experience, and hanging out with such an international group of spoon carvers was great. So much happened during the three days that for now I'm going to just put up my photos from the weekend.<br />
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<span id="goog_2134839508"></span><span id="goog_2134839509"></span><a href="http://carvedspoons.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/charcoal-making.html" target="_blank">Last week</a> at the <a href="http://www.essexwt.org.uk/" target="_blank">Essex Wildlife Trust</a>'s <a href="http://www.poundwood.org.uk/Home/Home.php" target="_blank">Pound Wood</a> I helped load and light the charcoal kiln. In the evening I went back and switched around the chimneys and vents. On Wednesday morning the kiln was shut down (all the vents blocked off) and it was left to sit for a week.<br />
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We opened it up on Tuesday morning and the wood has gone <a href="http://carvedspoons.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/charcoal-making.html" target="_blank">from this</a>:<br />
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We started picking out the charcoal and loading it into bags. I was amazed at how the wood had in one way changed so much, but in other ways, remained remarkably the same. I could tell which branches were silver birch and which were hornbeam. </div>
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While bagging the charcoal we had to break up the larger pieces. This was to help fit them in the bags and to make sure they had been turned to charcoal all the way through, and had not just become 'brown ends'. The wood that had fully converted broke easily and the sounds of it had a glass-like quality to it. </div>
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Once we couldn't easily reach down into the kiln we tipped it over and continued to hand-fill bags. Apparently using shovels left the bags dirty, which customers don't appreciate. </div>
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The bags are all filled with the larger pieces, labelled and put on the tractor trailer ready for delivery.</div>
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We filled about 70 bags with barbecue charcoal.</div>
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Once we'd picked out all the larger pieces, we moved on to sieving out the smallest pieces to fill 'top-up' charcoal bags, which are labelled as having smaller pieces of charcoal in them, intended for "topping up a barbecue at a suitable pause in the cooking"</div>
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Once all the remaining charcoal has been through the above mesh, it's sieved twice more, once to collect remaining small 'top-up' pieces, then the remains from the top-ups are sieved to be used as horticultural charcoal. It's all a very efficient process, with nothing from the kiln going to waste. </div>
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I brought home a large beech log from Spoonfest, with the intention of making some bowls from it. So after a particularly hectic week, here's the first of hopefully several bowls this log will provide.<br />
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It's a lot of fun working on a bigger project like this. I do however want to make sure I have it ready for drying by the end of the weekend, as I already have about three bowls that have dried before I've got them to where I wanted to get them. They've all been sitting untouched for a while now. Should probably get round to finishing them soon!</div>
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Here's what I managed to get done today. Hopefully I can show you the (almost) finished product tomorrow.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Learnt this technique of drawing an oval from <a href="http://www.davidffisher.com/video_from_log_to_wooden_bowl" target="_blank">David Fisher's video</a>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hewing out with my Hans Karlsson adze</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The inside all roughed out. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I used a Hans Karlsson gouge to remove the adze marks. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Using a Svante Djarv little Viking axe to rough out the outside.</td></tr>
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While this isn't wood carving, charcoal is a cool sustainable product and making it used to be a really process widespread across the UK. It's a great way to use smaller diameter wood that it can be hard to find uses for. </div>
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I often help out at <a href="http://www.poundwood.org.uk/Home/Home.php" target="_blank">Pound Wood</a>, an ancient woodland that's managed by the <a href="http://www.essexwt.org.uk/" target="_blank">Essex Wildlife Trust</a> as a coppice site. A common product from coppice woodlands is <a href="http://www.poundwood.org.uk/Charcoal/Charcoal.php" target="_blank">charcoal</a>. Charcoal is wood with the water removed by setting fire to it and then severely limiting the oxygen it receives. The charcoal from Pound Wood is sold locally. A fantastic British product made very sustainably.</div>
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Here's the wood pile that needs to be loaded into the kiln. There are two stacks, one in front of another, about a meter tall and three meters wide. This was all cut to length the week before. </div>
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Here's the kiln, in the middle of the woodland. </div>
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The white dumpy bag was in the kiln and contained the 'brown ends' from the last charcoal burn. The 'brown ends' are pieces of wood that didn't fully convert into charcoal. They'll be used as fuel in this burn. In front of the kiln are two of the vents we had to place under the kiln at regular intervals.</div>
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There are eight vents. During the burn four will let air in and four will have a chimney attached for smoke to escape. The first layers of wood need to be laid in a way that leaves a channel from the vents to the centre of the kiln.</div>
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Here wood has been stacked around the outside, with diesel soaked 'brown ends' in the middle. The wood is stacked as closely as possible together to limit the flow of oxygen. If too big a gap is left, the wood around that gap is likely to burn and get consumed, instead of converting to charcoal.</div>
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We continued to fill the kiln and around the point the wood reached the lip of the kiln, the pile of cut wood we had ran out. Had more small diameter available and cut that to length and finished stacking the kiln.</div>
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Using diesel soaked fabric inserted into the vents, the brown ends are lit. </div>
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We put caps on four of the little chimneys, making them air-intakes. The other four had the vent blocked and a chimney tube attached. After eight hours the chimneys and vents will be swapped around to 'reverse' the direction of the burn, which will hopefully ensure as much wood is converted into charcoal as possible. The entire base is sealed using a liberal amount of clay dug from the ditch around the kiln. The lid used to be sealed with clay as well, but it turns out that sand creates a better seal.</div>
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Carefully I cut along the lines at a slight angle in one direction, then at the opposite angle, cutting a 'v' shaped groove. A small piece of wood is removed from each line.</div>
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I made small incisions, not removing any material, to create a darker line. To help the decoration stand out I rubbed coffee grounds into the design.</div>
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The weather has been rather unpredictable over the weekend. Fortunately I've managed to axe out the spoons before the weather got really bad, before retreating indoors to finish them off. All of the spoons have been carved from purple plum that was a street tree felled due to ill health. I've got a fair amount of it in my wood pile and am really liking the wavy grain and contrast between the heartwood and sapwood.</div>
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By splitting the wood radially I can display this contrast nicely. I've also been trying to get the bowls as thin as possible, something I can't really display in the photos. </div>
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Returning for its third year,<a href="http://spoonfest.co.uk/" target="_blank"> Spoonfest</a>, an international gathering of 200 spoon carvers in Edale, a scenic village nestled in the stunning Peak District has come to an end<br />
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I’ve been fortunate enough to attend all three Spoonfests, and this year was another great weekend. I arrived, like most attendees, on Thursday afternoon, unable to enter the spooning fields as they were closely guarded by volunteers, unmistakable in their day-glow yellow t-shirts. Several times I was accosted by one such volunteer (be-hatted and Irish) demanding to know:</div>
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Eventually, possibly at the threat of being rammed by a camper van, the gates were opened and we streamed into the verdant field of spoons. I spent a few moment trying to figure out the best spot for my tent, engaging in some rather complex calculations (distance from toilets, ease of access to car, line of sight with marquee, likelihood of being next to a snorer, prevalent wind direction, angle of the sun, nearest ley line, etc). Finally I settled next to where two identical tents had been pitched next to one another, if only for the potential comedy it might provide. I tucked my tent as close as I could to those around me, so as to not repeat the horrors my tent’s guy-lines inflicted on people last year. Really, the less said about that the better.</div>
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Once unpacked and settled, I wandered around, bumping into a few of the instructors, the <a href="http://barnthespoon.com/" target="_blank">lovable Barn</a>, the holy Hazell and the distinctively coiffured <a href="http://owenthomaswoodcraft.bigcartel.com/" target="_blank">Owen Thomas</a>. Ensuingly, proceedings in the marquee began, with the instructors all being given their chance to tout their wares for the following days of spoon tutelage. A moment of silence was attempted for all the trees that aren’t yet spoons, but Barn’s insistence that he was ‘being serious’ only encouraged people’s chuckling and tittering. Robin eventually split the sacrificial billet and <s>the bar opened</s> Spoonfest officially began. </div>
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On Friday, the workshops were focused on the neophyte spooners. While it is always good to be reminded of the basics, as one man’s basics are rarely the same as the next’s, I however thought it prudent to save my pennies for the spoon shop. Therefore I strode out to the woodpile to inspect this year’s timber tributes. Amongst the regulars of birch and cherry I found some almond. The steel of my axe has never tasted almond, so I helped myself to a small round. I carved two spoons from it, handing out the rest of the wood to other carvers similarly interesting in testing out a new material. One of my spoons harked back to the Welsh dolphin spoons and the other more reminiscent of the Swedes. The Welsh spoon was carved radially and the Swedish style spoon was carved tangentially, so as to properly explore what almond’s grain had to offer. I then helped myself to a crook of wild cherry. The wood split nicely, but the lip of the bowl kept checking (developing small cracks). The intermittent cloud/sun probably wasn’t helping matters. I carved on regardless. Eventually one of the checks deepened and I had to admit that a crack had formed.<br />
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It wasn’t great, but I asked the opinion of those around me. Some said chuck it, various glues were suggested, others said to ignore it and use it regardless. Sean Hellman offered some nice insights: glue wouldn’t work for this ladle, as they don’t stand up well to hot liquids. Sean makes a lot of large shrink pots and cracks in those can negate a whole day’s work, so he’s investigating decorative methods of repair, such as copper wire or butterfly joints. He said these might be tricky to apply to a spoon, but I’ll keep my eye on his blog for any such methods he may be sharing. I’ll then be amazed at the skill with which he’s done the repairs and resign myself to using superglue as decoratively as I can (which isn’t saying much).</div>
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This year I decided to put some spoons in the spoon shop. I brought spoons along last year for that intention, but chicken out and put them all in the spoon gallery instead. I laid out my dozen or so spoons, all carefully labelled and priced. I was strangely proud to see my spoons lying next to all the others on offer and not looking entirely out of place. I also had some spoons I wasn’t quite ready to part with and put those up in the gallery.</div>
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On Saturday I was up earlier than I intended, my body unaware that I didn’t have to wake up at 5am, but doing so regardless. The Spoonfest field that early in the morning in a magical place, the silence broken only by snoring, trains, farming equipment, the curses of sleepy eyed people tripping over guy ropes and the clang of portaloo doors. I stumbled about, performing my morning ablutions, eventually finding the coordination to light my cooker and make some coffee. Properly caffeinated I wandered over to the fire to join those other morning larks in smoky conversation around a bubbling kettle. I soon decided to join the rapidly lengthening queue for the day’s workshops. Closer to the front than the back I was fairly confident I would be able to get on Martin Hazell’s burr scoop workshop, one I had been meaning to attend since last Spoonfest.</div>
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Martin’s workshop was an interesting one. Having carved spoons for a few years now, I know how to carve a spoon, but having never worked with burr wood, I was hesitant about diving into it on my own. Martin clearly and humorously explained to us how to remove a burr, the difference in grain between burr and normal wood, and how to use some of the mini-gouges. I stuck with the tools I already have, not wanting to get enamoured by another shiny bit of metal. I was impressed with how well the twca cam faired at carving a small bowl (initially at least). My HK spoon knife was sufficient to finish off the scoop I made. For me the biggest difference in using burr wood is in the roughing out. When removing larger pieces with an axe or knife, you expect the pieces to split away in a certain manner. This is not the case with burr wood, as the split follow the grain, and the grain goes every which-way. This means small cuts with the axe and (for me) moving onto the knife a little sooner than I normally would. All too soon the 90 minutes allocated for our workshop had elapsed, but we hung on a little longer, with Martin providing hints, tips, encouragement and regular insults (so we didn’t get too pleased with our progress). Immediately after we left the workshop I hunted through the woodpile for some more elm burr. Finding some, I wanted to carve a deeper burr scoop, something akin to <a href="http://www.spooncarvingfirststeps.com/p/blog-page_15.html" target="_blank">Jon Mac’s kuksas</a>.<br />
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I spent most of the day working on that scoop, sitting around one of the carving blocks with some rowdy Scots. The carving block soon became the ‘story telling block’. Anyone was welcome to use it, but had to tell a story about themselves whilst doing so. We had stories of bodies down wells, tarantulas up trouser legs and lifesaving rain jackets. Saturday night’s campfire entertainment was stellar, as usual. In fact, there were two campfires, for a while seemingly competing with one another. Under the tarps there were traditional folk songs, flutes and fiddles. Under the stars there were guitars, drums and, a hilariously gravelly voiced rendition of Britney Spears’ ‘Hit me baby’. Eventually, as numbers began to thin, revellers coalesced around the fire under the tarp. There the singing continued, as did Steve Tomlin’s pleas to be driven to a rave in Manchester. However a couple of traditional Swedish songs about frogs seemed to placate him.</div>
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On Sunday I wasn’t sure which workshop to attend. It was a dead heat for Anja’s spoon decoration and Sean’s sharpening. While I really love Anja’s bold style and everyone who took her course the day before only had good things to say about it, I felt that knowing how to properly sharpen my tools would serve me better in the long run. Sean’s course was definitely informative. I‘ll be purchasing myself a jewellers loupe in the near future, so I can properly inspect the ragged state of my tools’ edges. Unfortunately, none of my tools were in that sorry a state as I had bought one of Sean’s sharpening systems about a year ago, which has kept my tool edges in a good condition. While there wasn’t much metal removal for me to be getting on with, Sean’s advice for me was to watch the secondary micro-bevel that’s starting to develop on some of my knives (Sean does recommends a micro convex bevel to add strength to the edge). If the secondary bevel stops being micro, then slicing long, thin wood chips becomes difficult. All I need to do to get it back into tip-top shape is to work through some coarser grits.</div>
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After the workshop I spent some time struggling with a couple of blackthorn crooks. One had an unfortunate knot that revealed itself where I wanted the spoon bowl to be. Not great. The second suffered a similar fate to the cherry ladle, checking along the front of the bowl. Slightly dejected I decided to pack up my tent and collect my spoons from the gallery and spoon shop. I managed to sell one of my spoons, which made me happy.<br />
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Back from <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/spoonfest?src=hash">#spoonfest</a> teaching hand-stitching to lovely crafts folk. Couldn't resist this spoon by <a href="https://twitter.com/TomsWoodWork">@TomsWoodWork</a> <a href="http://t.co/IIajpVG1AI">pic.twitter.com/IIajpVG1AI</a><br />
— Mia Sabel (@SABELSaddlery) <a href="https://twitter.com/SABELSaddlery/statuses/496334347436564480">August 4, 2014</a></blockquote>
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With all my spoons in hand I did a couple of spoon swaps, and generally chitchatted my way around the site. With about an hour or so to go before Spoonclub, I wasn’t sure if I was up for it, having slept very little over the weekend and my office-soft hands were starting to show a bit of wear and tear. I did help myself to a nice lump of cherry, thanks to a guy called Richard who just liked to saw wood. I also walked off with rather large chunk of beech I was encouraged to take home, lest it become firewood.</div>
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<a href="http://jojospoons.blogspot.co.uk/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Jojo Wood</a>, a fantastic spoon carver, whose work I admire, asked if the above spoon was inspired by the <a href="http://owenthomaswoodcraft.bigcartel.com/product/dolphin-spoon" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">dolphin spoons</a> made by a chap called <a href="http://owenthomaswoodcraft.bigcartel.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Owen Thomas</a>. </div>
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I'm not particularly familiar with Owen's work and his dolphin spoons didn't feature as inspiration for the above spoon (turns out he was an apprentice of <a href="http://barnthespoon.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Barn the Spoon</a> and does really <a href="http://owenthomaswoodcraft.bigcartel.com/products" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">nice bowls</a> as well as making spoons). The above spoon was a bit of a mash up of a<a href="https://www.facebook.com/138769358213/photos/pcb.10152165107448214/10152165106908214/?type=1&theater" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">spoon I received from Jojo</a>, a cherry spoon I bought from <a href="http://www.chatquilit.com/" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Jane Mickelborough</a> and my own creative meanderings. </div>
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<span style="background-color: #f0f0f0; color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.5px;">Initially influenced by the traditional Welsh dolphin spoons, these have developed into a shape of their own. </span></blockquote>
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I used some purple plum branch wood for this spoon. Traditionally they seem to be mainly sycamore, but plum is what I've got, so plum is what I use. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940421400637285894.post-38969374680604363232014-07-21T09:19:00.000+01:002014-07-21T09:19:15.968+01:00Wonky Sweet Chestnut Spoon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I often finding myself working hard to maintain symmetry in the work I do. This was a fun diversion. <a href="http://www.surolle.se/" target="_blank">Jogge Sundqvist</a>, a brilliant woodworker from Sweden said that 'form follows fiber'. It wouldn't have been too difficult to cut across the grain and create a straight(er) handle, but as the curve of the bowl was already waiting in the wood to be revealed, I wanted the shape of the handle to emerge naturally too. I also wanted to keep the bark on. I'm not sure how long it will stay on, but I like the way it adds to the natural shape of the spoon, a utensil already in a branch, ready to be released with a few simple tools.<br />
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I don't tend to do much decoration on my spoon handles, but when I found out my friend <a href="http://simonhillgreenwoodwork.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Simon Hill</a> would be<a href="http://simonhillgreenwoodwork.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/getting-set-for-teaching-at-spoonfest_17.html?m=1" target="_blank"> teaching spoon decoration</a> at <a href="http://spoonfest.co.uk/" target="_blank">Spoonfest</a> in a couple of weeks, I thought it best to get some practice in! </div>
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Last year at Spoonfest, Simon and I took the same carved engraving workshop with <a href="http://www.houtvanbomen.com/HoutvanBomen/houtvanbomen-_English_summary.html">Janharm ter Brugge</a> but I didn't do much with what I learnt there. Simon on the other hand, has been working hard on his kolrossing and chip carving skills, to great effect:<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940421400637285894.post-59311747084201713052014-07-18T13:09:00.000+01:002014-10-02T05:48:16.099+01:00So practice doesn't make perfect?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)" target="_blank">Outliers</a>, Malcolm Gladwell popularised the idea that the mastery of a skill requires 10,000 hours of practice. This idea quickly spread, for it seemed logical. The more you do something, the better you become at it. Throw 10 years at something and you'll be at the top of your game.<br />
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This came from a 1993 paper by K. Anders Ericsson, Ralf Th. Krampe, and Clemens Tesch-Romer titled '<a href="http://projects.ict.usc.edu/itw/gel/EricssonDeliberatePracticePR93.pdf" target="_blank">The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance</a>'. Within it, they look at a longitudinal study into musicians. The sample group all started playing their chosen instruments (violin or piano) around the same age, but those that became professionals had accumulated an average of 10,000 hours of practice by the time they were 20 years old (compared to 4,000-5,000 hours accumulated by those that became teachers).<br />
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Personally, I quite liked this rule. So long as I keep practicing I'll steadily improve and if I see others who appear to be progressing quicker than myself, it's because they're getting more practice in.<br />
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However <a href="http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/06/30/0956797614535810" target="_blank">recent research</a>, looking at the results from 88 studies into highly skilled individuals found that the amount of practice you do only predicts 12% of your performance.<br />
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Looking at these categories, I'm not exactly sure where carving would fall. I would probably guess it's somewhere between sport and music, as it requires high levels of coordination, creativity and an understanding of the tools you are using.<br />
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Each year Waste Less Live More holds a themed week to raise awareness of our environmental impact. Last year the theme was Food. This year, the theme is '<a href="http://www.wastelesslivemore.com/challenge/" target="_blank">Be Resourceful</a>'.<br />
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<a href="http://carvedspoons.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Tom's Woodworking</a> is partnering with Waste Less Live More and will be in London teaching people how to make spatulas during the week. </div>
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Here are a couple of short handled eating spoons that have recently emerged from their linseed oil bath. They're loosely based on my rowan travel spoon.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"> I was inspired to make more little spoons after a fellow spoon carver </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/don.nalezyty?fref=ts" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">Don Nazlezyty</a><span style="text-align: left;"> revealed his latest 'pocket spoon'.</span></div>
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