Barn the Spoon & Jarrod Dahl at Woodspirit School in 2023

We have some exciting news to share. As part of Barn’s visit from the UK to the US this coming Spring, 2023 he’ll be teaching a workshop at Woodspirit School in Ashland, WI. Actually we’ll be teaching it together.

We’re calling it a Spoon Carving Masterclass and the class will happen March 31-April 2, 2023.

Barn and I are…

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Hassui Ceramic Coating from Japan aka Liquid Glass

While in Japan I learned of another finish known as liquid glass which was tasteless, odorless, and had a very matte finish. In fact, the wooden items I saw appeared not to have a finish at all, and yet still beaded water on its surface. I was obsessed. Back home I spent months searching for more information. If you search liquid glass on the internet, what comes up is either an epoxy or nano finish. But that’s not what the liquid glass I knew was.

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Japanese Woodturning - Part One

Wooden tableware has a rich and long history within the Japanese culture. We share that history here in the West, but the widespread use of woodenware largely ended a few generations ago. There are some exceptions—one being the large diameter bowls produced en masse by bowl mills here in the States. But in Japan the timeline is unbroken and this is one of the reasons why I traveled there…

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