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Author Archives: stevetomlin
Spoon carving 1-to-1 tuition
There are times when you want to have your own craft course on a 1-to-1 basis. Whether you’ve a specific element you want to cover in depth, get individual tuition and attention, set the date to fit yourself or learn … Continue reading
Posted in greenwood courses, spoon carving, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged 1-to-1, beginner, bespoke, course, cumbria, greenwoodwork course, improver, individual, sprint mill, UK, workshop
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The New Materialism
From time to time I ponder my own dichotomy of being, on the one hand a very unmaterial person and, on the other, a craftsman trying to sell things to other people. Over time I’ve realised that there is a … Continue reading
Posted in SteveTomlinCrafts, Uncategorized
Tagged Buy Nothing Day, craft, making, New Materialism, philosophy
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Greenwood & Scythe course dates 2014
I’ve been working on this for a few weeks now so I’m really pleased to be able to tell you my 2014 course dates. I’ve been discussing the scythe dates in particular to ensure that we make best use of … Continue reading
Posted in greenwood courses, scythe courses, Scytherspace, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged 2014, carving, course, greenwood, learn, scythe, scything, spoon carving, workshop
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Large and small spoons
A couple of spoons commissioned by a local potter and made to her designs. Really fun to make, the large spoon is 30cm long while it’s little salt spoon brother is just 7cm total.
Posted in spoon carving, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged cherry, greenwood, salt, spoon, wooden
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Wooden spreaders commission
A small commission of wooden spreaders has gone off to London to be given as Christmas presents. The customer asked me to replicate one she had brought back from New Zealand and liked so much she wanted to share the … Continue reading
Posted in spoon carving, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged butter, cumbria, greenwood, knife, London, spreader, wooden
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SteveTomlinCrafts & Scytherspace together
Some of you will already have noticed that I have brought my Scytherspace site and blog into the SteveTomlinCrafts site. As well as making them easier for me to manage this will mean that you now get posts all year … Continue reading
Posted in Scytherspace, SteveTomlinCrafts, Uncategorized
Tagged blog, scytherspace, Steve Tomlin
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Fresh wooden eating spoons
Three new eating spoons freshly out of the oil* this morning. These are my standard eating spoon shapes but I thought they were worth sharing for the beautiful colours, especially the spalted birch. These will be in the Spoon Shop … Continue reading
Posted in spoon carving, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged birch, eating, sloyd, spalted, spoon, wooden
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Making bread in dough bowl
So Simon Thomas of Staff of Life had the dough bowl over the weekend and tweeted the whole process of mixing, kneading and proving 3kg of dough in my carved bowl. This is a multigrain loaf with malted & rye … Continue reading
Posted in carved bowls, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged bowl, bread, carved, dough, handmade, Staff of Life, trough
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Baker's wooden dough bowl
This morning I took the new wooden dough bowl over to Simon Thomas at the Staff of Life bakery. It was a lovely busy place with plenty of activity and a steady stream of customers and a great atmosphere. Simon … Continue reading
Posted in carved bowls, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged bread, dough bowl, dough trough, Simon Thomas, Staff of Life, wooden
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Carved bread dough bowl
Some images of a new carved bowl that I finished earlier this year. Carved and finished by hand from local birch it measures 19″x11″x5″ and is designed as a dough bowl (or trough) for mixing, kneading and proving bread dough … Continue reading
Posted in carved bowls, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged bread, dough bowl, dough trough, hand carved, proving, wooden
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