Blackthorn pocket spoon #1

Length: 18cm (7 inches)
Bowl width: 4.5cm
Bowl length: 6cm
Finish: hemp seed oil

This blackthorn spoon has a symmertic bowl making suitable for left or right handers. It’s an exceptionally beautiful piece of blackthorn heartwood with lots of lovely dark red tones in handle as well as the bowl. Note that over time the red will most likely fade to a dark brown but it’ll still be gorgeous. Blackthorn is prunus family like plum and damson and shares the same exceptional colours. It usually grows as a prickly shrub on scrub land and in hedges and it’s rare to get large enough pieces to carve like this entirely from the heartwood. This was from Llangrannog in west Wales where an overgrown lane side was cleared back to allow traffic to pass more easily.

Length: 17cm (6 3/4 inches)
Bowl width: 4.5cm
Bowl length: 6cm
Finish: hemp seed oil

This spalted blackthorn eating spoon has sweet faceted surfaces on the handle to provide plenty of interest for your thumb and a lovely splash of colour on the back of the bowl. A unique spoon from a unique piece of wood.

Length: 16.5cm
Bowl width: 5cm
Bowl length: 5.2cm
Finish: hemp seed oil

This round bowled plum spoon has a flat rim is a general purpose eating spoon and not a really deep bowl soup spoon like traditional round spoons, although you could eat soup with it of course. Facetted handle and back to the bowl. Plum is very hard and durable.

Length: 18cm  (7 inches)
Bowl width: 4.8cm
Bowl length: 6cm
Finish: hemp seed oil

The bowl and neck of this spoon, from the heart wood of wild plum or bullace, is such a gorgeous deep red brown colour. This wood is very hard and the bowl is silky smooth so it should eat like a dream.