Time to carve again… First work made out of black cherry plum wood (prunus nigra / Blutpflaume).
Really nice material, lovely colors and comfortable to carve.

Using some Mora knives, Pfeil spoon knives and a Fiskars Norden axe.

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Just finished (I say finished, but I think "gave up" is a better phrase) carving my first spoon in about eighteen years. It's lumpy and wonky, and the bowl's a little too deep for a comfy eating spoon, but a little too shallow for a scoop.

Some parts are lovely though.

Room for improvement then. But since the first step to mastery is giving yourself permission to suck, I reckon it's a good start.

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