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Author: Mark Cornish

Interested in making spoons and bowls from wood captured while walking around South East Wiltshire UK.
A Spalted Beech bushcraft spoon

A Spalted Beech bushcraft spoon

Posted on 14/01/202214/01/2022 by Mark Cornish

What is Spalting? Fungi are everywhere and are responsible for the breakdown of matter and the beginning of the rotting process. Sometimes sick trees are attacked by these fungi, but once trees or branches fall to the ground in the moist atmosphere of a UK winter, Fungi will not take more than a few months…

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Stanley with a large stick. Photo by Dean Edwards

Maybe I was a dog in a past life

Posted on 09/12/202114/01/2022 by Mark Cornish

It does make me wonder sometimes. I like to be outside and go for walkies and am always on the lookout for the next stick. Don`t know how I am going to get it home or what to do with it when I get it there, but I want it. Most end up on the…

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