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["del stubbs" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>]

        Rats, I guess its on its way to andromeda..heres a summary as I 
remember 
it.

        10 years back I spent a winter living in northern Sweden teaching 
what I 
know of woodcraft and learnng from them-there's a tremendous network of 
'craft colleges' in the country. One of the richest traditions is the carved 
wood spoon- but it is so unlike anything in our culture, anything.   In that 
tradition the more an object is to be USED the more it MUST be beautiful 
because it is a tool of ones daily life-- and life must be beautiful.  In 
that tradition a spoon is a finely engineered tool made from a bent limb 
which matches the curvature of the spoon or ladle- giving invisible 
strength.   The spoons and ladles i carved there have been in constant use 
for 10 years and they look virtually just like the day they were made.  Its 
quite incredible.  They are treated with 'lin olja' pure flax seed oil.
        The natural elbos of apple limbs are often perfect for just such 
utinsels.  
  It occurred to me that fruit growers might enjoy using a utinsel out of 
one of their favorite old trees....hmmm...I don't carve spoons for sale.   
But I was talking to a friend in Minneapolis who took this tradition and  
developed it, and asked him if he ever makes special spoons-ladles of 
peoples wood, he said yes!
        Tom Dengler Woodcarver  at     <kathryn_finkle@hotmail.com>
that's all   Mn. del


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