Domestic and north American walnuts

Today really started with this murky water, as shown below.
There was no Kamakura business.



What you are seeing is the result of hard wet sanding of
the current lot. Wet sanding is carried out in water and
bits and pieces from the surface of my items float around

in the water, making it very murky. The dark shadow you see is
the sanding paper I was using, with the granular level at
500.

They are then dried, as shown below, and this a lot depends
on the humidity of the day. It was something like one hour,
today.



Once large scale coatings start, it will take up,
virtually all morning of yout time, which might be just
as well, to kill your time, or my time...

4 images to follow, to reflect on today's operation,
yet another day has gone...



These are the last remaining pieces in my long forks. Ready
to be coated on my next session. They are walnuts, domestic.



These are spatulas, from my earlier work, edges are rounded,
and sanded for coating. Dark walnuts, north American.

What follows is what I was talking about yesterday, not liking
them very much sort of thing.



Top profiles are more or less the same, but side profiles
vary greatly. Some are like daggers, with straight stems!
I should imagine all of these will have to be used at home.

You cannot easily form a set of 5 pieces from these.



These? They are simple picker kives, again, it is not
realistic to think I can give them away as gifts.

There are not that many, anyway, to be given away and
I have not got, reason unknown, short and flat pieces
left any more.

The root of my current problem is this. My wife wanted to
get rid of one of the tables her father had produced,
years ago, and he is deseased by now.

So, her request was to make the best use of the material
used for the table. This, I have been doing over the last
one month or so.

My gut feeling is that the table in question has been
turnd into something like 200 spoons and forks, and the
residuals will be made into chopsticks, I think.

For your information, I will be staying at our mountain cottage
in Yatsugatake, with my mother, as soon as the rainy season
is over, for something like two weeks.

During that lengthy period my logging will be completely
stopped.