cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47395983
It’s a piece of gum tree. Eucalypts are hard as the devil, which is proving to be a little slippery in practice. I chiselled out a grid pattern which is working okay, but it’s still slipping much more than my old rotting pine log.
At this point I’m hoping it will get a grip as it ages and silvers and gets beaten on. We’ll see.
and the spoon?
That’s the first spoon i carved with my new block! It’s made of a fascinating native wood called rewarewa.
I go from log to rough spoon with the axe, then I finish with a knife. I’ll finish it with food safe tung oil.
They say he carved it by hand from a bigger spoon