Spoon

The simple ordinary spoon is part of our everyday lives from stirring our first cup of coffee to the long slurp of soup poured with a ladle to scraping the last bit of pudding from the bowl. Barn the Spoon is a master craftsman in the rarified art of spoon carving and a thoughtful proponent of the new wood culture renaissance. His love care and passion for wooden spoons is genuine and infectious. In Spoon he brings unparalleled color and character to his role as one of the world's most respected spoon carvers and shares the extraordinary skill and gentle philosophy he applies to his life's work. Barn shows how to use the axe and knife from how they should feel in your hand to honing the perfect edge when carving your own spoons. Featuring sixteen unique designs in the four main categories of spoon -- eating serving cooking and measuring -- Barn takes you through the nuances of their making how each design is informed by its function at the table or in the kitchen and the key skills you will learn. Stunning photography on nearly every page both inspires and acts as a blueprint to help perfect your technique. A celebration of the ordinary transformed into the extraordinary Barn's spoons take you on a journey into the new wood culture from understanding the relationship among wood the raw material and its majestic origins in our trees and woodland to the workshop and the axe block and into your own kitchen. This gorgeous full-color book is the perfect gift for the home chef woodcarver crafter collector artist escapist urbanite or anyone harboring dreams of a self-sufficient lifestyle.