Each spoon teaches a new lesson

I am trying to fill this blog up a bit, so I am posting some old work. These spoons and a small bowl were carved over the ascension-weekend.

On the big spoon I had issues with the neck. I couldn`t achieve a clean cut, but would again and again make a scar. The folk over on bushcraftUK.com gave me good advice, as they always do to everyone. My mistake was to work on the area that contained the problem. The solution lay in approaching this area from further away, so that there is some time to rock the knife out of the cut before the cut starts going against the grain. 

In this WIP picture you can see how correction after correction took me away from the shape I wanted to achieve initially. This inital curve is still there on the left. I left the final product assymetrical, as a lesson for the future. Unfortunately the handle has a split in it, but I hope it will dry shut eventually.