Last Few Spoons of March

Spring is finally rolling in. Sap is dripping profusely from the maples, lots to boil yet. Finishing up a load of pruning & cutting, which has yielded an incredible amount of spoon wood. Here’s a short update of some spoons carved at the tail end of last month… I also carved a fair few spreaders, … Read more

Before Spring

I’ve been steady carving the past month, anticipating spring. More spoons. Moving closer to production. I’m Getting materials together to build a spoon mule to maximize my spoon production ergonomics. Planning out a pole lathe to start learning how to turn bowls and other turned pieces. A micro forge for making small turning and carving … Read more

Some Recent Work

I’ve been carving quite a lot of treen lately. The past few weeks of work have brought in a lot of really nice wood—box elder, black cherry, apple, autumn olive, sumac, chestnut, persimmon and more. So I thought I’d post a photo of some of the byproducts. Some of these will end up in the … Read more