It's time to spend some old stock of carving wood and so I returned to plumwood. It's the same wood I used when I began carving seven years ago. It was nice work, although a little nostalgic.
The wood comes from a tree that was infected with plum pox virus and had to be cut down (now I feel an urge to say that plum pox does not spread to humans :)) The tree was still quite young, so the trunk did not have much brown heartwood in it.
This piece was suitable for a spoon:
This for a cooking spoon:
The last piece was also meant for a cooking spoon but it split completely askew. Normally I would throw such piece away but it was the last one, so I took a pity on it and carved this tiny coffee spoon:
And that's all from my supplies of plumwood. I wish to bring back to memory all the things that can be carved from one sick tree (and also to show how I've improved my carving skills over time). So I attached here the old pictures of everything carved from this tree in 7 years.
My historic spoon, I still have it (but I don't boast about it anymore):
A spoon for a friend I met on a volunteer camp:
A spatula carved from a cracked piece of wood, I had to throw it away because of that:
A spoon for a colleague:
A pebble adopted by my little nieces, twins:
One of these spatulas is still used in my kitchen, the other one in my sister's:
A replacement pebble for me:
Lumberjack's spoon for my husband:
A spoon without an owner yet:
