Hand Carved Walnut Sauce Spoons, Salad Forks, Spatula and Cutting Board
Students:
Ali McCarthy ’23 Gabby Andretta ’23 Hannah E. Davey ’23 Claire O. Donovan ’23 Autumn Brown ’23
About the Project:
At the beginning of this semester, the group originally intended to continue with our original project of designing and creating custom alpine skis. We completed quite a bit of research and design for this project, before realizing that it would not be feasible to complete it in the maker space studio. Some of these restricting factors was a lack of space in the shop to create a pair of approximately six foot skis. Additionally, the project would require us to use fibrous materials like carbon fiber in combination with strong resins. We quickly realized that this would pose a problem with possible inhalation of the fibrous materials and off gassing from the resin in the small shop. Given Luca’s background in traditional woodworking, we then decided to shift to creating a table, and again realized that we would not have enough time or the funds to build a quality table that is on par with our standards. We finally landed on creating handmade sauce spoons, a salad fork, a spatula, and a cutting board. We came to this project because we wanted to use these items in our kitchen and we thought that these three items would be the most useful. We decided that we would want to use wood with good grain in order to achieve the most visually appealing spoons. We came to the conclusion that we would use dark walnut to achieve this. In terms of other planning and research, we went through images online to determine some possible designs. Ultimately, the group decided that it would be best to come up with our own designs to incorporate a level of creativity and uniqueness to our project. The design process did not take us very long as most spoons, salad forks, and spatulas are all relatively the same. So, we determined that they would all be approximately the same length. We planned to mainly create these spoons in a handmade fashion, this would be achieved by doing all hand carving with the carving knives we ordered. We are looking forward to using them in the future.
