Tea Scoop Light Walnut VH

tea scoop, walnut wood
6 x 19.6 cm

Walnut has beautiful, colored wood. It smells sour during processing. I especially like its cooler shades - gray-brown. It is one of my favorite woods for carving. It is cut cleanly and the strokes can be easily guided perpendicular to the fibers. On the cut is shiny and seems to be "a little greasy". The walnut also bends well in steam. I use it to make parts of musical instruments. These particular planks are cut from an old hollow tree from southern Bohemia. Drawing on the wood on the border where rot begins is often even wilder than healthy wood.