Olive ladles

 

One of the designs I developed for my handmade ladles is a perforated tiny (3.5cm diameter) ladles with the handle bent at about 90 degrees to the bowl.  See a photo of the bowl section of three olive ladles in the opening photo. 

I refer to these ladles as Olive Ladles as initially I designed them being used to scoop olives out of a jar; and for the perforations (holes) to let the oil or vinegar flow back into the jar. 

People who have bought the ladles say they can use them for scooping out cocktail onions and capers.

Some process photos of the making of the ladles follow including - starting with disks of decorative silver-plated metal cut from salvaged silver-plated brass placemats; punching holes into the disks; planishing the backs of the bowls after they have been formed from the disks (see planishing hammer in the photo); and attaching the brass rod handles with copper or brass rivets (see the small riveting hammer in the photo).

In my last couple of making sessions I made seven of these olive ladles as you can  see from the photo below. Why 7? I like odd numbers; and also needed quite a stash as I had orders for four!!