Egg and Spoon Crafts

Egg and Spoon Crafts A small local business selling beautiful handmade crafted gifts and cards.

Blade two was a little easier. I learnt that my problem isn't just with drilling straight, it's also to do with sawing ...
07/08/2026

Blade two was a little easier. I learnt that my problem isn't just with drilling straight, it's also to do with sawing straight... This time the hole I drilled was definitely more perpendicular to the top face of the blank. Unfortunately, that top face was skewed. But it was all correctable - though I ended up with a slightly narrower handle than I'd planned.

In other news, I managed to find a use for the largest tree pearl I've found to date. Doug was with me when I found it. He was duly interested, and perfectly reasonably, asked me what I was going to use it for. Later THE SAME DAY I came up with the plan to make it into a sheath. Sorry, Adam Ashworth, it now looks like you make potato knives!

I put a handle on a blade! This is not a comfortable place for me. I still find it impossible to drill straight. If a...
06/08/2026

I put a handle on a blade! This is not a comfortable place for me. I still find it impossible to drill straight. If anyone wants to take me on as a student to teach me how to drill a straight hole in wood, I'm up for it. I know it can't be that hard, but so far, the skill has escaped me.

There have been several steps in the creation of this knife:

Step 1. I got the Kay Embretsen blade at Spoontown, courtesy of Kasteelhout - Ellen de Lange-Ros. Many people, including The Lego Guy Jonas Verstuyft convinced me that this was the best chip carving knife - let's hope that the handle allows it to perform as well as it should; I've still got a mini lego figure to finish...

Step 2 (possibly the most important). I resisted the urge (this was really difficult) to ask Georg to put a handle on it at Spoontown.

Step 3. I utilised a piece of oak that came from the altar in church. When it comes to wood, I am my mother's daughter, and was unable to part with the offcuts. It feels really good to have put some to good use.

Step 4. I watched the Georg & video (RiseUpAndCarve YouTube channel) on demystifying the blade handling process. And I remembered how tricky it was to get zoom to record the right camera. None of the really useful stuff was actually recorded on the video, but the audio gave a pretty good clue.

Step 5. I started. Strangely, often the most difficult step.

A sweet side profile, with a useful crank. My pocket spoons can vary in crank, depending on how tiny the starting bille...
04/08/2026

A sweet side profile, with a useful crank. My pocket spoons can vary in crank, depending on how tiny the starting billet is. This one was just right.

Plum, lovely plum. Still possibly my favourite wood.This was also from that rotten centred piece of plum at Spoontown. ...
03/08/2026

Plum, lovely plum. Still possibly my favourite wood.

This was also from that rotten centred piece of plum at Spoontown. There wasn't much good stuff left, but what was left was GOOD!

Also featuring a very happy purple hibiscus.

I'm not normally keen on the green sycamore streaks. But the organic highlights on this sliver of a pocket spoon are gr...
02/08/2026

I'm not normally keen on the green sycamore streaks. But the organic highlights on this sliver of a pocket spoon are growing on me. Just as well.

During the demo I did at Spoontown we played "guess the number of billets in a log". I chose some straight grained sycamore, cut to pocket spoon length, and asked the folks watching how many billets there might be in it.

At the end, after distributing most of the billets (obviously, the winner got one, as well as the other guessers), I chose one of the thinner billets just to make sure there really was a spoon in it.

The roughed blank has been sitting in a plastic bag for a week, and that's made the green bloom. There's no chance to get underneath it with such a thin spoon, so I just have to embrace it.

This wood sparked many a "mystery wood" conversation at Spoontown. I asked Martin what the oldest wood in the wood deli...
02/08/2026

This wood sparked many a "mystery wood" conversation at Spoontown. I asked Martin what the oldest wood in the wood deli was, and it was this. Something that had been hanging around someone's wood yard for a bit.

Unfortunately I didn't take a picture of the log... I was too busy sweating over splitting it with . It had thick fissured bark - looked a bit like willow. And it was a real challenge to split.

We'd just about plumped on aged willow, then we veered towards a maple. And now, I don't know. Will it have to be kolrosed with "mystery wood"?

More of that plum. From the top view, it looks like I only just managed to catch a tiny piece of the heartwood in the d...
31/07/2026

More of that plum. From the top view, it looks like I only just managed to catch a tiny piece of the heartwood in the depth of the bowl. But actually, I decided to capture the heartwood/sapwood split down the length of the handle, so when you turn the spoon over, you get a totally different colourway.

Another piece of Spoontown wood.This is plum, and the heartwood had mostly rotted away. What was left was a ring of dec...
31/07/2026

Another piece of Spoontown wood.

This is plum, and the heartwood had mostly rotted away. What was left was a ring of decent wood. A few of us shared it, and my first plan was to make a jar spoon with this bit. Unfortunately, the rot spread quite deeply into the back of the bowl, so I had to scale it down a bit.

I find that spoon gatherings spark my decorative creativity, so here are some chips.

I had one definite aim when I realised that the new house would mean having a garden too. I wanted to grow flowers to c...
31/07/2026

I had one definite aim when I realised that the new house would mean having a garden too. I wanted to grow flowers to cut and put in vases.

Achieved.

I came home from Spoontown full of gratitude. It is a real privilege to be a small part of such an amazing utopian comm...
29/07/2026

I came home from Spoontown full of gratitude. It is a real privilege to be a small part of such an amazing utopian community. We shared everything from laughs and food, to creativity and wood. And much in between of course.

I also came home from Spoontown with heaps of things to finish. The weekend was so full of conversation and fun, that I couldn't find the headspace to finish things, and it wasn't important, so I didn't.

And now I get to put finishing cuts on all sorts of shapes, with all sorts of inspirations, and I have the chance to remember all the connections that were happening alongside the starting cuts.

This pocket fork was my first piece of wood during the festival. challenged me to a pocket fork and this lovely piece of cherry got the opportunity. The shape does come with a bit of a caveat, however. The crank required to make a forky bowl is a little too extreme to be conducive for a pocket.

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