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Spoons By Jeff

Locality: Cooran, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 5485 2030

Address: 6 Hensley Lane 4569 Cooran, QLD, Australia

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24.01.2022 Huon Heart. Hearts seem to have become a 'thing' for me in recent times. I hadn't really been contemplating doing spoons and hearts, or spoons with hearts but got caught in a bit of light banter about soppy heart spoons.... Even then it still wasn't on my radar but I came across a donated off cut of huon, ideally shaped for the purpose. A really gorgeous piece of tortured, burnt huon, wavy grain in the bowl area, and remnant charcoal scarring on the handle. It all came together so beautifully, I couldn't have been happier. 230mm / 9 inches

18.01.2022 Silky Oak Spoon One from a while back. An unusual spalting running through the wood, and more unusually it seemed to add some additional density to the wood rather than making it softer or punky.... The weird design of the handle is a consequence of other work cut out of the original block of wood. Strange, but strangely ok. 200mm / 8 inches.

18.01.2022 Too Many Spoons It seems that I need to do something about the ever growing collection of spoons I've been making and not marketing. I had an enquiry from a chef in Melbourne, potentially interested in having some of my organic shapes for his restaurant, so I took a few pics of some of my backlog to get a better idea of the style and spoons I've made and, from that, an idea of what he's after.... Plenty more where these come from too. Always gratifying talking spoons and the possibility of selling some.

16.01.2022 Huon Spoon A somewhat battered and bruised end piece from a larger chunk of weathered Houn - the bruising and impact cracks still evident on the underside. Perhaps a metaphor for the year past - on the outside everything look fine, but beneath the surface, or not evident at first glance, the impacts remain.... I'm really happy with this little spoon - a delightful presentation to end the year. Gorgeous wood and funky, interesting curves. It's available if anyone's interested - open to offers. To all who check in on my work from time to time, thanks for your interest and support. Blessings and very best wishes for a healthy and contented 2020.

14.01.2022 Blackbean Teaspoon Pretty sure this is the very last piece of this wood - but I thought that last time. Lovely creamy colour with some fiddleback patches and the striking darker ripples.... The design was dictated by the shape of the small off-cut scrap I had available. My initial thought was to have a hole in the handle but the wood looked and felt so good so I left it whole. It might appear that there is a zig zag crack in the bowl - not so, it is just one of the ripples. Fascinating what nature can do. 110mm / 4.5 inches

14.01.2022 Mistletoe Stick Teaspoon. As well as this spoon has turned out, it is not what I had intended. The small branch was protruding from a lump on a mistletoe. After studying the branch and lump, I thought I could saw the whole thing off and make a spoon with a substantial bowl and skinny stick handle. Unfortunately the stick was not securely attached to the burl and it detached with just a small lip.... Only just enough wood to form a bowl so my large spoon shrunk to teaspoon size. Quite a delicate little spoon, with polished inside bowl and natural texture on the underside. Not sure what to do with the little lump of mistletoe that no longer had a handle. Maybe a small bowl to go with it and keep them together.

12.01.2022 Mango Spoon !* Giveaway *! Just a nice little spoon . . . quite useable which is a bit of a novelty for me.... Spalted mango - from the same block of wood that I made my measuring spoon set from. Indeed, the wood for this spoon was an off cut from one of the set. It's a Christmas Giveaway - if you're interested, simply say so in a comment. No need for tagging, posting etc, just a note that you're 'in'. I'll meet the postage cost. 145mm / 5.5 inches. Finished in food safe oil. Drawn Sunday 6pm, Cooran time.

09.01.2022 Scribbly Gum Burl Spoon Curious how the cosmos works sometimes. In recent weeks I'd had a couple of people mention burl spoons. It has been quite a while since I'd made a burl spoon mainly because I thought I'd used all my scribbly supplies.... So a few days ago while rumbling through a box of wood bits looking for a nice piece of Silky Oak, I came across a long forgotten piece of burl. Straight to work on it - and this eventuated. Gum burl wood can be a bit of a challenge because of the gum veins and you'll notice a couple of gaps in the rim of the bowl. Planned by nature - well that's my excuse. 150mm / 6 inches

05.01.2022 Camphor Laurel Spoon Perhaps about the right size to be a serving spoon. A bin retrieval, it has already served me well, keeping me interested and entertained for several days. The raw wood showed a hint of grain, but what it produced once finished was much much more that what I'd expected. A lovely ripple of grain across the bowl, the hint of a face too. And even the handle has some delightful ripple effect.... 235 mms / 9.5 inches tip to tip. The bowl is 100mm 65mm Finished in food safe Kunos Oil.

04.01.2022 Huon Spoon I'm pretty sure this was a sliver of off cut from the huon trunk that was provided for the last Spoonies in the Tweed. Not much to look at in its raw state and it had taken me ages to conceptualize how to proceed with it. Actually, I still didn't have a plan at all, I just started nibbling away, cutting a bit here and a bit there - and bit more. A bit wider where the bowl needed to be; a bit skinnier to start defining a handle.... Eventually it became more spoon-like, and the form began to flow. The wood had been split along a crack line in which there had been some organic growth, staining the wood thus providing a dramatic contrast around the rim of the bowl and along the handle. It also produced a more yellow tinge to the adjacent wood, 250mm / 10 inches

02.01.2022 Mango Spoon Giveaway AND THE WINNER IS - @against_the_grain01... Thanks everyone for your interest and support.

02.01.2022 Mistletoe Lump This mistletoe lump (not sure if that is the correct botanical description), has been on my watch list for quite a while, waiting for the right inspiration. So, having revisited some of my mistletoe spoons in recent weeks, I've become enthused about doing some more.... Initially I'd earmarked this lump to be a bowl but now I'm thinking - strategic cuts and several spoons. Hmmmm. More pondering. More possibilities.

01.01.2022 'Viking' Spoon Made from Conkerberry, design collaboration with Erica J. A smallish spoon, at 120mm / 4.5inches - the end piece cut off from my previous Conkerberry Spoon. So, not a great deal of wood to work with and the extra challenge of working around the inward curve at the end of the handle from where the other spoon had been cut out.... The curve suggested a moon type crescent so that was one start point. The other was to somehow retain a flash of the turquoise resin. An odd alignment between bowl and handle. Then the crescent was too irregular to make a perfect symmetrical moon so one end now curves up while the other curves down, and has a split. An exercise in patience, pushing the process, and being grateful for creative input.