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Category Archives: SteveTomlinCrafts
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
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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
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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
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Tagged bread, dough bowl, dough trough, hand carved, proving, wooden
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Handmade wooden spoons
A couple of gratuitous spoon shots from the weekend of my own spoons which I’d taken along to the course to inspire. There are eating spoons, serving spoons as well as a couple of little scoops. Some of them were … Continue reading
Posted in spoon carving, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged cooking, greenwood, hand carved, handmade, spoon, wooden
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Spoon carving course for London Green Woodworkers
I spent this weekend teaching a spoon carving workshop for London Green Woodworkers based in Abney Park, Stoke Newington. Abney is a beautiful old cemetery full of headstones and monuments which has reverted to woodland over the years and is … Continue reading
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Tagged carving, course, design, green wood, greenwoodwork course, improve, London, spoon, UK, workshop
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Spoon carving with Gareth
Teaching people how to carve spoons is always a pleasure but it’s great to be asked by an experienced carver to extend their skills. Gareth has been carving for a few years now and teaching too. We talked at Sizergh Greenwood … Continue reading
Posted in greenwood courses, spoon carving, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged carving, course, cumbria, green wood, greenwoodwork course, hook knife, sharpening, spoon, UK, workshop
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Fan Bird carving at Elvaston Wood Fest
Elvaston Castle Wood Festival is probably one of the best shows in the country for seeing top-class craft in action and I’m always thrilled to be invited to demonstrate there. This year I was showing visitors how to carve fan … Continue reading
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Tagged craft, Elvaston, fan bird, green wood
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Exhibition at Sprint Mill
Posted in greenwood events, SteveTomlinCrafts
Tagged 2013, C-Art, chair, cumbria, greenwood
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