Green woodworking

This blog post is long overdue. I carved the spoons below over the last couple of months. As you can see, I’ve been experimenting with different types of wood and different shapes. Most of them are finished with a homemade wax, a mixture of walnut oil, beeswax and a bit of orange oil. They were […]

This post is long overdue. I’ve been postponing this one, because it’s a lot to write about. In turn, it became a lot more to write about by postponing. I’ve decided to give a short summary of this project. It’s not a success story, but I learned a lot and I’m still pretty happy with […]

Whenever trees are cut down or heavily pruned, I try to get some nice bits to carve. One of my neighbours was cutting down a young pencil cedar a few weeks back, and I got this beautiful branch.

These are some kitchen utensils – two spatula’s and a shallow spoon – I carved last week. The wood came from a big oak log that I’m slowly but surely turning into a hewing bench. More on that soon. I made a little video of how I carve a spatula:

This is my first spoon. I carved it last week from a piece of cleft oak from the log that I’m building a hewing bench out of. There’ll be a post on that very soon.