Today I managed a couple of hours in the workshop. My leg and arm wounds have precluded my entry into a dirty environment for the last 4 weeks - but today I felt I could make a short foray.
The focus of the work was to cut blanks for Leafspoons, Leaf Tea Caddy Spoons and Leaf Spreaders (knives). I love the texture and light of some of the hand cut trimmings such as in the opening photo.
The work started with several silver-plated placemats (below) - I started with 3 but need 5. You can see from the photo below the pot of templates I end up with some sizeable offcuts that will later be used for leaf earrings and daily word leaves.
Some process photos follow including the pot of templates I keep for marking up the metal.
The final photo shows the trimmed and ground tea caddy spoon blanks - they are now ready for pressing, hammering, folding etc.
Hopefully over the weekend I will progress the 18 pieces of metal.
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