im reading a book about spoon carving and i love how the author keeps referring to craftsmanship. it's my favourite word of the english language probably
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I love using plain wood best, however, because then nothing distracts from the form of the spoon. I like the egalitarian beauty which comes from a plain bit of wood. A nice clean, straight bit of sycamore is the cow parsely or stinging nettle of the wood world; this compared to the glamour of the orchid. I believe that the hunt for the rare or unique is to neglect or even despise the ordinary; when we carve a good spoon from ordinary wood we celebrate the beauty of ordinariness.