These types of crafts have all but disappeared as we replaced individual man's efforts with machine's efficiency. Somewhere along that path we also lost the humanness of the things that we possess and use.
Maybe, when I am not up to my ears in final exams, I will try Swedish spoon-making.
A very kind old man who is a woodworker at our church has a relative who used to be a machinist. When I told him that I was looking for a hook-knife to hollow out the bowls of spoons, he offered to ask his relative to make me one!!
ReplyDeleteI should have it sometime after Christmas and be able to start making spoons soon after.