Cotinus eating spoon #20

Length: 18cm  (7 inches)
Bowl width: 4.2cm
Bowl length: 6cm
Finish: hemp seed oil

This elm spoon was made from a crook, a bent section of the branch, so the grain runs through the bown. Notice how there long oval rings in the bowl rather than the circles you see on some straight grained spoons. This makes the spoon stronger and the thin, slightly narrower bowl, makes it great eating spoon for main meals like rice based dishes. The elm dries very hard and should last many years of regular use.

Length: 17cm (6 3/4 inches)
Bowl width: 4.7cm
Bowl length: 6.2cm
Finish: hemp seed oil

This is a wonderfully proportioned spoon and the side profile is particularly fine, you can’t see it in the photo but you’ll just have to believe me. It’s a spoon I carver some time ago and acted as the template for many that followed. The wood is very hard and silky smooth, it’s going to be a joy to eat with.

Length: 19cm (7 1/2 inches)
Bowl width: 4.5cm
Bowl length: 7cm
Finish: hemp seed oil

This elegant blackthorn spoon has plenty of gorgeous heartwood in the depths of the bowl and striking colour on the back of the handle. It does have a little bit of softer wood in the heartwood on the back of the bowl but I think it’s sound will last for a good long time. It’s a bit cheaper than it would otherwise be. I decided it deserved to go on sale as it’s a bit different to the others here and someone might just fall in love with it.  The long narrow form makes it equally suitable as a small serving spoon or a generous eating spoon.

Obviously not for eating dolphins, it’s just that the profile is like some of the old welsh dolphin spoons with a distinctive prominent hump on the top of the neck.

Cotinus is also known as Smoke Bush or Venetian Sumac.

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

A right handed eating spoon with an ebonised handle. The handle has a slight hollow and a ripple to provide comfort and fun for your thumb.

Ebonising is done by painting with a solution of iron in vinegar, this reacts with the tannins in the wood to turn it black.

I had limited supply of Cotinus, they’re all either sold or for sale on this site – when they’re gone they’re gone.