While the daily temperatures are up and down, the light has shifted into Fall and with it brings the return of routine and a focus on work.
In preparation for the Honey Harvest Festival, I made a lot of honey dippers and enjoyed experimenting with some new shapes. I even made some tiny ones that I turned into necklace pendants.
I feel like I’m still working on my design and fabrication of this utensil. After making several of these this past month, I saw a video posted by a master woodturner of his process of making a honey dipper. I felt inspired to try out his method and continue pushing my design ideas and skills with the turning tools.
The highlight of my early Fall was taking part in the Oscine dinner experience at Hover Farms hosted by Chef Nicholas Leiss. Seeing the work that I made for him paired with his dishes in a fine dining experience was a delight.
Continuing the theme of reworking a piece that I wrote about last month, I had an extra walnut pillow bowl from the set that I made for Chef Nicholas. When I originally made these, I made the bottoms with a recess that would make it easy to remount them should they ever need to be refinished. This particular bowl had some lighter colored sap wood on its rim that did not enhance its overall look, so I decided to cut it back and make a simple curved interior. Like the botanical design that I added to the salad bowl that I made last month, I used wood burning to add a drawing of an aster sprig.
There has been a positive reaction to these recent embellished works and I hope to make more of these in the next month for the holiday markets.
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