Sunday 15 December 2013

SPOON # 49 - Sunday 15th December

Here is another little laurel eating spoon - the last of my laurel. A simple design with a bit of kolrosing - in the new year I'd really like to do a lot more kolrosing. I've always been a fan of scrimshaw and fancy myself a bit of a scrimshander, even though I've never actually done any. Come to think of it, I quite fancy a go at shotgun engraving too. When I was about 17 I used to work with a bloke, Uncle Chris, who had been a jewellery engraver in a previous life and he'd let me use his graving tools and took me to Birmingham jewellery quarter to buy a small quantity of silver which I carved into a love spoon pendant for my girlfriend- come to think of it, that was the first spoon I ever made.

This is a very simple pattern, I began with the intention of having another go at basket weave pattern, but soon realised I'd got the angles on the transecting lines wrong so went with this simple criss-cross instead.

I rubbed the kolrosing with charcoal - I'm sure I've read that this is a traditional method - and it worked fairly well. It looked like a dirty smudge at first, but after a rub down with walnut oil it looked okay.





9 comments:

  1. Your spoons become better and better!

    All the best,
    Forest Turtle

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. That's so kind of you to say so. Thank you for your comments and for following. Have a great Christmas.

      Delete
  2. I admire your spoons! Just started carving spoons, and it takes me forever to finish one, even though they are just plane little spoons. You have mastered the craft!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. that's very kind of you, Sabine. It's just practise. If I can help with anything, don't hesitate to ask.
      Happy Christmas
      Richard

      Delete
  3. Looks great. Love the fancy part next to the bowl. Very nice.
    Also I wanted to thank you for your response about patching a crack. Very helpful. Do you add any dust to the epoxy? I guess that would depend on the size perhaps?
    Many thanks! !!!

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. You're very welcome, Cheryl, glad to be able to help. I haven't added dust to epoxy, but if the crack is too wide to fill just with glue, there's no reason why it shouldn't work. Give it a go. Let me know how you get on.

      Delete
  4. Great job, Richard! The inside of your bowl is very refined. Lovely. I am also getting more and more interested in kolrosing these days. Are you sanding or shaving the surface after you have rubbed charcoal into the incision? Or are you finding you can just rub with oil and it all comes out ok? I find I have to shave off the top layer to really bring the design out (see my "tasting" spoon on my blog).

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Thanks again, Eric. I'm going to do a lot more kolrosing and carving in the future. If you've not seen them before, check out these beautiful spoons by Paul Adamson - I love the paprika kolrosing and his naive individual style. Make sure you post your efforts.

      Delete
    2. Oh, very nice. I had not seen his work. Thanks for that reference.
      I use milk paints on some of my bowls, and was thinking I might try rubbing that powder into the cuts.

      Delete