wood recycling
Spoons! Spoons! Spoons!
Do we really need more spoons?
Spoon Carving. It seems to be taking the Western World by storm. What is driving this phenomenon? I believe there are several things converging to give such life and vibrancy to the delightful craft of carving spoons. It is all about our need to re-connect with the natural world, with ourselves and with one another…
Make a shaving horse from recycled wood!
While traditionally a shaving horse would be made from green wood gathered from a forest or wood somewhere, not all of us city dwellers have easy access to the right kind and size of trees for this purpose. However, we do have access to wonderful seasoned timbers from all around the world which arrive in our…
The Joy of Carving Wooden Spoons.
I love carving wooden spoons. And I’m not even Welsh. Over the last few years, Spoon Carving would be one of the most popular of the public workshops that I run. It is a wonderfully tactile process and a lot of fun. In the Northern Hemisphere, wooden spoons are predominantly made from green wood. We don’t have such…