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

 here's a few  picture's of my latest cherry ladle

all of these cherry spoons i have been showing were carved out of small logs cleared for a new house that would have otherwise been used for fire wood or just pushed in a pile and left to rot.

i really like the idea of making something useful out of what would have otherwise been considered useless.

I haven’t had a lot of time for blogging lately. I have been really busy trying to get caught up with orders.

But here is a few more spoons. They are all cherry the light ones are from the sap wood.

As you can see they are finished completely with knife (no sandpaper).

This makes for a much more interesting surface and no mistaking that it was made by a human being.
And though it lacks the machine perfect straight lines,

I think this is exactly the kind of thing the world needs. Something made by a person for a person.
But then again if you need a perfect, boring, run of the mill spoon there’s a wall-mart on ever corner

Well it’s turned really cold here so I am trying to stay real close to the old woodstove.

I am working on a red oak rib back chair, fitting the back ribs.

Don’t worry about the mess on my table I seem to get along better among chaos.

Here I am fitting the sides with a block plane.

 It’s hard to beat a good knife.

Good tight fit.

                                                         

Well here is the snow. Good day to split into that cherry.

This is a good way to get chair material because the split will follow the grain of the wood making for a really strong part.