Hey Guys,
What's your procrastination project? By that I mean, what do you work on, when you know you should be working on something else? I go to the shop, and I just can't bring myself to work on a carpentry project that's needed, or to finish a project that I've stalled on. So what do I work on? Spoons!
A recent wind storm left a bonus of windfalls, and since spoon carving is best done with green wood, that's my excuse. I gotta use it while it's still green, right?
The thing I love about carving spoons is that they don't have to come out any specific way. In fact, they sort of evolve to their final shape on their own. No two are alike, and that's great! There's no pressure for any kind of precise replication, I just keep carving until I'm satisfied. Usually, I like to set it aside for a day and then come back to it, a new perspective shows where to start in again.
I can waste a lot of time on spoons.
Here's how they start, you have to rive the pith out.
I use a wax marker to draw, and re draw, the general outline (somehow, they still end up asymmetrical
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I like to use a shave horse, but this one is made for paddles, oars, longbows and spars. I'll have to modify it for spoons and short stuff, ...someday.
Even though no two are exactly alike, I find it difficult to make them very much different. They just sort of become some part of me, then they are done.
What's your procrastination project?
Cheers,
Tom
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