Out on a Limb

Your always so creative great job.

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

Ditto on Jim’s comment. Never knew spoons could take so many shapes. Love your work.

-- Mike, Missouri --- “A positive life can not happen with a negative mind.” ---

Way cool, I like the ebony spoon/scoop. Great idea with the shell.

-- Can't never could do anything, to try is to advance.

yes ! ... woot ! ... shazaam !

-- keeping myself entertained

The more I do spoon carving , the more I am in aw of your work. The shape and style of Ebony and Ivory is cool then you throw in the bone and shell … wow. Also Out on a Limb …

-- Paul , Calfornia

The inlaid sea shell is brilliant.. always love your stuff!!

-- ~ Eric P Jorgenson: Jorgenson Design

WOW, still blowing my mind with your creativity and craft…............Good for you!.........

I love them all but that long one is really cool, heck, which one isn’t, darn hard to have a favorite…...............

-- mtnwild (Jack), It's not what you see, it's how you see it.

magnificent… you truly are a master!!

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

great and flowing spoons

bet there are some tibetan monks drooling
for one of these

-- david - only thru kindness can this world be whole . If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure. Dan Quayle

Thanks for the comments. I appreciate reading them. I forgot to post this other one…. It is Macassar Ebony (I think) and it was MUCH easier to sand than the other black spoon…. a pleasure really. The finish was silky smooth at 320 but I took it on up a bit. Nice wood to work with.

-- I just got done cutting three boards and all four of them were too short. (true story)

spoon-tas-tic ! Spoontaneous

-- Roger from KY. Work/Play/Travel Safe. Kentuk55@bellsouth.net

my friend, you are way outside the box, so far outside! :-)

love them all! especially ebony and ivory…and that last one you added from ebony M. has some very sexy lines.

I have been wanting to try a dog bone and wood joint for a spoon…have made a few knife handles using the technique and they usually look good.

thanks for sharing your art…always a pleasure…

hey, do you label your spoons with a woodburner?

-- tr ...see one, do one, teach one...

Terry ~ I just started a month or so ago. Bought a burner with a round and a blade tip. I make my ‘mark’ instead of trying to ‘sign’ in the usual way…. so that I can keep the imprint small as possible. My eyeballs, even with the magnifier, has a hard time doing a great job anyways.

Even though it looks like an anchor the image is actually my intials (TW) with a circle on top to represent the spoon bowl. One of these days I would like to get a small brand so I can be consistent with it.

-- I just got done cutting three boards and all four of them were too short. (true story)

spoontaneous,
sorry for clogging up your project instead of a private email, but I have a tip others might like…

first, please don’t buy a branding iron for your art…I’m a country boy and those irons are for cows and goats! Artwork of your high caliber deserves a personal mark IMO. so what if all the lines aren’t perfect in the burning? we are talking a one of a kind piece here…just practice your mark…

...and the tip I discovered a few months ago…if your burn lines end up different depths and look ugly to you (I sign first initial, last name, date, so end up dealing with grain problems), grab some 800 grit paper and gently sand over the deeper burn marks…wipe clean…assess…repeat as needed. is this cheating? :-)

-- tr ...see one, do one, teach one...

Love your Logo, good luck on that, if you find a place that can make a small enough branding iron or stamp, please let me know. You should scan yours into photoshop and rasterize it so it is scaleable. I have been carving my logo since the first wand. My logo came out of years of doodling in endless and sometimes useless meetings until the day I woke up out of burnout and saw myself as an artist again. It is also my initials of E and J, people enjoy my logo cause it looks like a table, or letter from some far eastern country, or some say a face.

I have a branding Iron (a gift from the in-laws from Rockler) for my bigger projects, but Like Terry says.. if you don’t get it right the first time, it gets obnoxious. So for my hand held items, I still do it by hand, and though I am always getting faster, times I just get tired of the different wood grains and densities and want a good stamp.

-- ~ Eric P Jorgenson: Jorgenson Design