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24th September 2017, 03:53 PM #1Intermediate Member
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Spoons & Utensils
Been knocking up a few kitchen utensils for something to do. Using Blackwood, Pear wood, Merbu, Teak, Jarrah, Black Wattle, Messmate, Tassie Myrtle and some Pine from furniture drawers circa 1940s,1950s. Finish them with Tung oil which the Blackwood seems to love.
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24th September 2017, 04:13 PM #2
Nice. Do you do the plasticine trick to measure your scoop bowls to standard measures?
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24th September 2017, 04:31 PM #3Intermediate Member
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No never heard of it. I was just going to use salt and water.
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24th September 2017, 04:49 PM #4Intermediate Member
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More Piccies. The wife has been doing the carving and ive been cheating using a Router, Jigsaw, Planer, Belt Sander< Orbital Sander and lots of hand sanding.
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24th September 2017, 04:51 PM #5
Cover the bowl of a standard measure such as a tablespoon with cling wrap. Leave some cling wrap over hanging the bowl. Fill it with plasticine.wrap the plasticine with the remaining cling wrap. Now you have a handy standard tablespoon measure that you can use on the run so it's not too deep or too shallow.
if it doesn't matter then no problem
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24th September 2017, 05:02 PM #6Intermediate Member
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Ive just been plunging the router in to the wood with a 38mm core box bit until its full depth which is very scary if you don't do it slow.
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24th September 2017, 05:38 PM #7GOLD MEMBER
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How would merbau go in cooking?
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24th September 2017, 05:43 PM #8Intermediate Member
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Chop it up finely with a bit of garlic and onion then saute it suppose.
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24th September 2017, 05:59 PM #9Senior Member
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Nice.
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24th September 2017, 08:14 PM #10GOLD MEMBER
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25th September 2017, 02:25 AM #11GOLD MEMBER
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What a fine collection! Don't look machine made at all. (Thank goodness).
How about some prep forks? They would need 3 or 4 tines at the most.
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25th September 2017, 04:19 AM #12
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25th September 2017, 07:00 AM #13Intermediate Member
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The Merbau is recycled floor boards. At first I thought it was jarrah but some of them turned really pink after sanding.
I will get some piccies up of the floor boards.
There seems to be a lot of confusion when it comes to which woods to use in the kitchen. Camphor laurel seems one of the worse but lots of chopping boards are made of it and I have a couple I brought back from Byron Bay which I use.
The only wood I heard not to use is Yew.
I was thinking of making the mother in law some Yew utensils
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26th September 2017, 06:23 AM #14
All woods may be toxic to someone... Here are some sites that have some info on wood toxicity:
Wood Allergies and Toxicity | The Wood Database
Toxic Woods UK
Danger in the Woods
Claude
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2nd October 2017, 01:23 PM #15Intermediate Member
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Gone crazy making spoons in the last 2 weeks. Elbow is so sore from the hand sanding.
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