Hand Carved Wood Spoons

Carved by ax and knife from wood found in your neighborhood.

Once you start looking for wood you’ll find it comes faster than you can make spoons. I get wood from tree trimmers, find it on the sidewalk and get it from the side of the road after a storm. When New York City removes a tree, the crew that cuts the tree down and and the crew that removes it are days, or sometimes weeks apart giving one plenty of time to collect the wood. There are 270 different species of tree in New York City,

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Catalpa spoon from Greenpoint, Brooklyn

$40.00

I got these branches from a tree trimmer working in the back yard of “El Pinguino” in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Catalpa is a very lightweight wood with prominent grain. Very resistant to water, bugs and decay.

Finished with Walnut Oil and Beeswax.

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