Spoons, Spoons and More Than Just Spoons
Every so often you get asked to do something that’s just a shade out of the norm or absolutely not the norm. Making spoons is quite normal for me and…
Every so often you get asked to do something that’s just a shade out of the norm or absolutely not the norm. Making spoons is quite normal for me and…
…mass making. I think it is funny that many makers come up with the dream of designing and making and then go into something called production to make their fortune…
…cherry spoon. It takes so little time with a gouge. The great benefit is you can fully carve the spoon from fully dried wood. when wood is dry of course…
…machine making is not the same as hand making. Meaning the two realms of hand work and machine work are nothing in any way like each other and so the…
…design chair table for drawing, computer work and eating at too. I am working on a new upcoming blog on making spoons from logs and squared stock to counter some…
…pattern making and the making of scientific instruments that were at one time widely dependent on wood for component parts. Of course we have fine furniture making, musical instrument making…
…challenge for me was making things that could be moved singlehandedly by this 73-year-old man. So between making and moving, climbing stairs and installing, I had my work cut out…
…making even the simplest of things like turned pens and wooden spoons but it is not so much what they make that they are admired for but that they can…
…does it mean for me as a maker of single items and small batches rather than mass-making of any kind? Stepping away from my mass-making walking canes, sticks and staffs…
…someone. In my world of making, most areas of well-being are taken care of in the planning, designing and making of things. How on earth is that possible? Well, planning…
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