I use linseed oil as a preservative to treat my wooden kitchenware. Initially, I thought one cold-pressed linseed oil couldn't be that different from another, right? Wrong. Read on for a comparison between a cheap cold-pressed linseed oil and an expensive one from Sweden.
Buying a blade without a handle is cheaper and it gives you the opportunity to design a handle to suit your own carving style. I decided to use a deer antler I was given to make really characterful handles. This is how I did it.
I needed a way to display my spoons that was rustic and simple to match the character of my handmade spoons. This is what I came up with. Find out how I went about making it...
To explain it simply, green woodworking is a craft in which 'green' or unseasoned wood is worked into finished items using hand tools. This explanation however, may give you the impression that the only difference between conventional woodworking and green woodworking it that the wood is unseasoned. In reality, it involves a whole range of tools and principles that have virtually been eliminated from modern woodworking by the ubiquitousness and affordability of dimensioned and kiln-dried timber. Rather than being an obsolete or primitive form of work, to be recorded for posterity only, I would argue that the old techniques of processing trees manually, by riving and hewing them while 'green', pay much greater attention to the nature of the wood, allowing it to be worked with less effort and actually preserving its inherent strength and flexibility in the finished product...
This is a question I get asked a lot. And even when it is not said, I sometimes get the feeling that it's what's going through a persons mind when they look at my wooden eating spoons, at a craft fair say. While I have always instinctually thought that yes, they are just as hygienic as steel or plastic, this very question has been addressed by actual scientists with PhDs and Professorships and everything. How convenient.
I must admit that it is a little daunting to put your own words out there. Therefore, I believe I am going to cop out somewhat by introducing someone else's words. And very beautiful words they are. Enjoy
If I had to show someone around Barcelona, I'd probably bring them to the area with the most crappy old doors. There's little more compelling to me than imagining what goes on behind an ancient, dirty, cracked, graffiti-covered door...