This was 1st of October and it was hot enough to swim in the stream on the way down.
I wanted to share this photo too, Fritioff sold many of the example spoons he brought with him to students on the first course (and me) So he spent the evenings carving more, here he is roughing out blanks with the axe by headtorch light.
After the second course my friends spooncarvers Steve and Barn stayed over and we had a day playing with tool design. Barn had a specific big spoon knife design idea he wanted to make and Steve and I were playing with ideas for more mass produced spoon knives. We had such a great time shame we didn’t do a group photo but here is me bashing out some car spring.
Steve grinding.
When you get a bunch of skilled folk together who are willing to share skills freely and bounce ideas off each other the learning potential is great. We will have to do it again.
Robin-Amateur woodworker, and occasional spoon carver from Virginia, USA. Really enjoy the blog. I'd love to see a more detailed post about your tool forging; particularly about metal selection and forge set up for tool production. So much information online is about decorative iron work or rubbish about swords….
thanks for the comment David.I'll see what I can do next time I am forging.