I met Stephen at Spoontown, he dropped all the way down from one of the Shires to bring me some gouges and draw knives to sharpen.
They came up beautifully, he's had a play with them and was very happy them.

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Looooong handled teaspoon.

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Enjoying these chunky handles, they have their own complications, keeping the weight balanced, as it still needs a little forward balancing, it's different for each type of spoon.

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Chips from all aspects of carving a spoon.
Axing chunks, big chips from initial clean up, scoop chips from bowl carving, medium and fine chips from refining spoons, long curly spirals and paper thins from finishing cuts.
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Pathcarvers in Ramsgate at Hold Creative Spaces.

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Meme Monday

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Bent spoon from Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus), chip carved handle.

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Cooking spoon from Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus), that could also double up as an instrument.

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Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) cooking spoon with a whimsicalish chip carved decal.

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Large Cherry (Prunus avium) serving spoon.

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Pathcarvers in Ramsgate at Hold Creative Spaces.

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My son saw me carving the other day, he said "I love seeing you carving, it's like the world is trying to heal itself".

Sycamore (Acer pseudoplatanus) cooking spoon, with three rows of freehand chip carving on each side of the handle.

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Meme Monday

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Symmetrical pocket spoon, from Hazel (Corylus avellana), with pinched neck and a Kolrosed flowering image.

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Symmetrical pocket spoon, from Hazel (Corylus avellana), with pinched neck and a chip carved sword.

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Right handed asymmetric spoon-horn, from Hazel (Corylus avellana)with a
3D kolrosed star and sun finial.

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Left handed asymmetric spoon-horn, from Hazel (Corylus avellana)with a peice of bark left on the finial, and some slightly inappropriate kolrosing message in the handle and bowl.

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An epic evening of carving last night, some started from scratch, others just a bit of finishing, with spoon, scoops, chess pieces and a micro chopping block.

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Made these two spoonhorns from Hazel (Corylus avellana) the other evening, one left and one right handed.
Gonna decorate them next.

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Meme Monday
Thanks Kevin from RUAC, for photos and jist of this meme, was an interesting process of ideas back an fourth to get here.
In the comments I'll add a previous iteration, unfortunately the rest was just texts back and fourth.
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