Where I live it seems like everyone has a Bradford pear tree. The trouble with them is they don’t seem to stand up to storms very well. Well here is a recently completed spoon that came from a tree that went down in a recent storm.

The wood was a little tough to carve but it finished up pretty nice.

Just picked up some wal-nut I had sawed. It tickles me to have fresh sawed 10/4 – 24” wide wal-nut boards in the barn.

wide striaght grained board nice!

Here is a table I just finished. I am calling it a slant leg couch table. It is made out of quarter sawn white oak. The top is 1-1/8” thick and has bread board ends. The little bead detail you see running around the sides is not an applied piece of molding it is actually a thick piece of wood edge glued to the to the sides of the boards that make up the aprons. I’m sorry the pictures are so bad I might have to actually buy a decent camera some day. (Its low priority right now though.)

Ok so I went with a friend of mine a week or so ago to visit with chair maker Curtis Buchanan.


Curtis is truly a master chair maker but I think the thing I admire most is that he has managed to make his living working at something he truly loves. I admire his lifestyle as much as his chairs, but anyway while we were in Tennessee I picked up a few pieces of walnut. This is a couple of spoons I have made so far from that wood.

 
by the way the spoon in the middle is from a piece of birch the same friend gave me.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Two recently compleated oak chairs

Fresh sawed cherry

This one has a little chip carving on the handle. It would make a real nice kitchen spoon.

   cherry   $35.00