I am back now from my mountain cottage. Here are some
pics from my stay there with my mother. While there I bought a new
dutch oven, by now well seasoned as shown.
Second pic is the wooden deck I constructed last summer.
I will be constructing another structure for my mother
at the side of the house by next summer.
That may serve as my sleeping quarter as well as a
large storage place.
The first picture is an introduction to my spoon
making activities. I cannnot show you everything
in one go.
Suffice to say that the workpieces in the picture
are on their way to becoming tea scraping spoons.
A lot more on this and other subtopics.
You will be innundated with so much information
on spoon formation, as I call the process.
Anyway, all this morning was spent on taking my wife
to her regular Kamakura gathering and going out
on a bicycle to purchase the thinner for my
urathene coating. It has been heavily repleted, lately.
Tommorrow on I will be talking about the basic
principles involved in spoon formation, as I know it
from my experience.
I will be showing you the arsenal of my tools and
how they might be best utilised. It took me several
years to get to this stage of complete satisfaction
with my tools. Watch out!
