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Tulip poplar #woodenspoon
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Cleaning up my desk and I came across the 2015 North House Folk School annual report which has this funny photo of me (with wood shavings all over my shirt and in my beard) and @robinwoodcraft. I brought it out a couple weeks ago to show a new friend who
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Here's the first bowl I turned once I got my lathe set up the other day. Its more Ailanthus. I love turning handled bowls, so naturally, I couldn't resist making one as the first bowl in my new shop. We'll see how it works for holding liquid since its rin
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Finally got my pole lathe set up in my new shop. I moved it down to Virginia at the end of last July and hadn't turned since last June. Feeling a bit rusty and need to make more hooks, but it was like riding a bike after a few minutes. This was a piece of
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Scoop ladle. I made a run of these a few years ago and they were a big hit. I was asked for another and just happened to have the perfect cherry crook for one. Great for serving and scooping all sorts of food. #kitchenutensils #woodenspoon #sloyd #treen
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A sassafras pancake spatula for my wife. A good pancake spatula is a special thing. Needs to have just the right crank and a nice sharp, thin edge to slip under the cooking pancake. We'll see how this one does. But I sure love carving sassafras. I've got
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Two cooking spoons... Two trees... The left is from Ailanthus altissima, or Tree of Heaven or Paradise tree, to name a few of it's names. I was cutting a large windfall for firewood last week and as I split it I couldn't help but wonder how it carved. It
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Cider orchard site. #orchardcider #vacider
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Tasted a line up of our 2015 ciders last night with friends. What an amazing thing the apple is! Such breadth of flavor, texture, aroma, and character. These were made from mostly seedling fruit grown and foraged around Clarkston, MI, and naturally ferm
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First of the winter squash ripening. Impressed with these varieties: candy stick delicata, gills golden pippin and little gem red kuri. Early remix butternut harvest is next and is going to be even more bountiful. Nice work @adaptive_seeds
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@seedlingfruit collaboration/commission. He sent me a section of his peach tree and I found some spoons inside it!
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Milkweed flower bud and leek/garlic scape omelette in a wooden bowl.
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Final plaster on the cob oven. Just clay, sand, wheat flour, cow manure, cattail duff and water. Pizza time coming quick.
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One last well-used spoon. I carved this in the fall of 2013. It's a large cawl spoon intended for cooking and serving. As you can tell by the patina it's served that use many times. I'm not sure what draws certain people to certain spoons, but it's fun to
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Another of the well used spoons. I carved this one in December 2014 from black birch.
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In the winter of 2013 I carved a couple dozen cooking spoons with the stir it up chip carving on the handle. This is one I gave to my Allison, which has seen tons of use since then. To me, there's nothing more beautiful than a well used spoon. The layers
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What's a kitchen without well worn wooden spoons? This is my soon-to-be mother in-laws collection. I'll post a few photos of the most well worn--spoons I've carved over the past 3 years.
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A friend asked me to do some slotted spoons so I have it a go. They're off to their new home tomorrow.
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Viola odorata
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An apple ale bowl.
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Spoons are made for usin'.
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My kitchen Queen.
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Mount scion. Some 60 varieties collected from the orchard and local seedlings yesterday and today. Excidered. #ciderapples
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Up on mount scion today #ciderapples
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A little something for a little someone.
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#maxsloyd shelf brackets. Oh, what the trees provide...
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Had a fun weekend carving and crafting with friends in northern Michigan. I played with a bunch of different spoon designs and wood. #woodenspoon
Mark Angelini:
Learning tons on the #polelathe over the past couple of weeks. I'm really enjoying turning quaichs, inspired by my time learning with Robin Wood @robinwoodcraft this past fall (he turns incredible quaichs). They are challenging in many ways because you le
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Treevor up'er doing his thing. We're doing restoration work on a bunch of old apple trees this week. It's Good Work as EF Schumacher would say. One of my favorite parts of old apple tree restoration is the endless amounts of tempting pieces of spoon wood.
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Putting in time on my new #polelathe, trying to understand all the subtle complexities of it. I am taking my best efforts yet and cutting them in half to get a sense of what proportions work and where I need to focus. This one is about 1/8 inch too thi
