Axe Grind definitions:

I cannot really say it better than this, so I stole these definitions from http://woodsmithexperience.co.uk

Niklas Karlsson carves a spoon

I had the chance to do a workshop with Niklas in Sweden last summer, and also just spend a few days hanging around and getting to know him. Niklas is an awesome guy, very skilled and very sweet.

Per Helldorf mechanical sculpture

Looking for some inspiration?

...follow this link to the digitized archives of a whole lot of Swedish Museum collections.

http://www.digitaltmuseum.se

I can be helpful to know that in Swedish, spoon is spelled "sked".

Some pictures from Täljfest at Sätergläntan-

-Tage Lundqvist, playing an accordion that he made himself. 

- a large spoon/ladle carved by Niklas Karlsson

- Barn may have found his Swedish doppleganger?

- I really enjoyed a bit of quiet carving time with Wille.

-Tons of activity in the evenings outside the main wood shop.

Lots of stories and pictures from Sweden, come to the next meeting on Sept 9th. at Mississippi Market.

Nice Crooks are valuable... I always feel very lucky if I am able to split them
 and get two spoons from one.

Jögge split this one and got three good spoons out of it!

You don't see that every day.  

A great, quick axe-work video by Jarrod.

Jarrod roughs a spoon blank with an axe

after watching this, swing over to his blog to see more stuff:

http://jarrodstonedahl.blogspot.com/