I have two new spoons, the first one is from bent maple branch.
The second one is from poplar wood I found last year after a windstorm. Grey poplar is a hybrid between white poplar and common aspen. It has the softest wood I have ever carved and the finished spoon is light as a feather. The heartwood has a nice color and it had a weak fruity smell, while the sapwood is almost white and it smelt like rancid oil. Fortunately the smell disappeared after drying.
I wanted to carve and paint a decoration like Maryanne McGinn does but it did not go very well, the pigments ran too much in the soft wood. Just so that you know that things don't always work out the way I intend.
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