Hey and welcome to my pages. Browse around and check out available spoons and other hand made wooden items I post here. Wood feels good. You know that. Use it. Thank you kindly for spending some of your valuable time with me. Stay and share a bit of my spoon carving journey. – Handmade is…
My wooden ware for your Satoshis
Would you be interested in a crypto currency payment option? Already we pay for our purchases with a variety of options such as debit cards, credit cards, PayPal etc. Right now I only offer one option as the preferred payment method. I were to offer a crypto currency as a payment choice would you consider…
A Quaiche
To sip your favorite spirits
Carving study: Dry goods scoops
Since mid May I have carved only scoops. During the past two and a half months I worked through and experienced an evolution in shape, design and how I carve these utensils. At the moment I believe that I have arrived at a bowl shape that feels good, a design that I enjoy carving and…
Dry goods scoop
I recently finished this interesting scoop. The grain of this spalted Beech wood was mesmerizing as I axed, shaped, hollowed and refined its form. Below a few images to take you through parts of the process. This one found a new home already and I am glad to know that it will be up to…
The axe
I like a using a sexy looking axe. I like looking at one too. Most of us use them to split firewood. Splitting mauls, regular forest axes and hatchets are the most common and generally used heavy metals. Of course there are specialized axed used by those who need such tools however most of us…
Small Pleasures, a carving photo story
I enjoy carving larger utensils, such as kookstiks, servers and ladles. Much smaller in size than those are my scoops and I find myself carving them from time to time. I few days ago axed out a couple of scoop blanks from a upper arm diameter round of beech wood. Yes I am into the…
A bird in my hands
Hewing bird shapes with my axe is satisfying fun. Working and exploring these simple forms is an ongoing study, evolving with each bird that takes shape in my making hands. One chip at a time. Axercise. It started out as innocent as trying to use a chunk of waste wood from some green wood spoon…
Chunky Scoop Shapes
This morning I just had to pop open one of the recently foraged beech lengths. The spalting in the cut ends looked pretty and my curiosity at its highest level, so … I cut 19cm lengths, split it with my froe, cleaned out the pith section and drew outlines for a couple of scoopy spoons….
Beech Life
I am not one to hang around on beaches, lay in the sand and do the things that beach goers do and enjoy. But I love beeches, beech trees that is. The beech wood stash I recently carried out of a nearby forest was worth the repeated walk from the car to the downed tree…
Blade & Wood 