You have to start somewhere

[bill_schubert]

This does not look like an auspicious beginning but I'm getting used to the equipment whittling down to the simplest useful thing I can think of, a butter spreader.  

First day

The piece of wood is about an inch shorter than I'd like but I'm just working through process making my mistakes on something I don't so much care about and doesn't cost much.

I did get a great set of sharpening stones for $35.  Four stones with a box you can see above.  I had a leather strop so I was able to sharpen my knife to a razor blade.  It is a very good Case knife so it sharpened well and holds its edge.  

I'll get this down to something resembling a spreader then sand it and oil it and see if I can make it useful.

Once I've done that and then likely again just to try different things I'll move onto something I really want which is a flat combination small spatula/spoon.  But I need a 13" piece of wood for that.  We'll see how it works out.  More to follow.

It was nice just listening to a podcast and slowly removing curls of wood.

Comments

[msconduct.livejournal.com]

Or you could stop here and call it a butter club! I can't remember where I read recently that whittling is the art of turning pieces of wood into smaller pieces of wood. It does sound relaxing.

[susandennis]

now that is a very cool project!!

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

It is fun and might result in something.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

I'm very likely to achieve that. Slowly slowly catchee monkey

[mairi-dubh.livejournal.com]

Good on ya!

It seems to me that a spurtle, a true Scots spurtle (and not that collection of stuff they're advertising on TV; I blame Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" series for this, because a lot of words got misapplied in those novels, and as I'm in danger of slipping into a tangential rant the less said about a lot of the dialogue, the better), the one used for stirring porridge, might have been easier, but the idea of a butter spreader is danged cool!

Although they're not whittled (as far as I know), do you have and use at least one of those wooden oven-rack pullers/pushers? Himself has a couple he inherited from his mom. They seem like good ideas, to me.

[daphnep.livejournal.com]

Oh, so cool!
Dan has been woodcarving (little birds) and he sits at the table with me as I make my tiny things, and bits of wood go everywhere. I love it—the company, and watching things take form.
It seems to take forever but there’s something very comfortable in that.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah. This is a patience activity. Not something I'm always good at which means I need it. I'm not as good at being still as I could be.

[bill-schubert.livejournal.com]

We have a push/pull, yeah. But a spurtle, if I can get spell check to stop changing it, is good a name as any.