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spoons and spoons

Some help on spoon carving.

As you might have noticed, I haven’t written much lately. well, not here anyway. Been finishing some articles, one for American Furniture and some for Popular Woodworking Magazine. That, plus the awful heat here have conspired to keep me from the blog. It’s not cooler yet, but I did get a few pictures of this and that.

As some of you know, I am looking forward to carving Swedish-style spoons this summer in Jogge Sundqvist’s class at Country Workshops (www.countryworkshops.org) –

but sometimes in my day job I need to carve spoons that represent those used by English settlers in Plymouth c. 1627. I know just about nothing of the spoons used then, other than having seen a few at the Mary Rose years ago ( http://www.maryrose.org/)

I carve them from maple usually, having riven out radial blanks. This way I can get a lot of spoons from one small…

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Kitchen Crown and a Final View of the Kitchen

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Plywood wall over old lathe.

What a mess!

Here’s a quick blow by blow on the jig and how I cut the larger angles.

My Kreg jig works really well to .. make a jig.

Squaring everything up.

Drawing in the angle.

And cutting the kerf.

Miter Box complete ..

and finally, cutting the molding.

And here are the final pics!

Sink with Paperstone Counter.

Stove and Cherry Cabinets

Paperstone and curly maple bar

Curly maple bar and study opening

Pantry and Fridg

Back door and kitchen sink

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