Empty Freezer Challenge

Our freezer was old and starting to break down, so we decided to buy a new one. The only trouble was how to deal with a drawer full of frozen wood.
So I had to take the wood out and make spoon blanks that can be safely dried and then finished later.

This is the result of two weeks of carving: left to right 4x apple, willow, plum, hawthorn and walnut.

Here are some other things from the freezer stock: an olive pebble, a plum pebble, a prospective shrink cup from maple, a plum server and a walnut spatula.

And finally some spoon blanks from fresh green wood: 2x hornbeam and 1x ash.
Now just to finish them all.

Hawthorn Wood

This spoon is not a result of pruning fruit trees, nor of forest trees broken by windstorms. I've cut a hawthorn bush almost as big as a tree. It was almost dry and in the end I could use only two pieces because of insect holes. This is the first piece.

Hawthorn wood is harder and denser than most fruitwoods (just a guess because I could not find hawthorn in the wood database). But I think it is also one of the most beautiful.