Wooden spoons at work.

For the past year I have been eating lunch at work with a wooden spoon, and the reactions that I get from people around me are interesting. Initially people do not understand why I`d take the effort to wash a spoon that I bring to work myself every day, instead of using the disposable ones from the cafetaria. Secondly they wonder why I would buy myself such a weird non-metal spoon. I usually tell them that I carve them myself, and that  it is nice to use something handmade and durable instead of flimsy and dead plastic disposables. Many people seem to understand that, but few seem to be interested in leaving plastic spoons behind themselves. Even though everyone agrees the plastic spoons are horrible. This got me thinking about a term that I think Barn Carder first came up with, and that has been repeated by some other big names on the spooncarving side of the internet. The term "Wood culture Renaissance". It sounds nice, the comeback or rebirth of wood culture into society. Even if it was only to make people more aware of the ridiculous amounts of disposable things being used, or of the joy that using a good handcrafted product brings. A big part of this supposed renaissance depends on treen being used in the public domain again, instead of standing around in jars in the rooms of carvers.

Here are the spoons I have at work currently, but I change them out frequently to try new ones I made. I keep them in a shrink pot together with some pens. the one on the left is a recent one I carved. The one on the right is the spoon I received in the second international secret spoonswap.

To make up for my little monologue in this post, I`ll add some pictures of recent spoons. I am happy with the crank I get in them. I tried a different way of chopping out the blank and now cranks are a bit easier for me to achieve.