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November 22, 2014by Sharif Adams - Woodenway Leave a comment

It feels important to share this. There are no spoons here or wooden bowls, but please read on… Two friends of mine have had a dream since they met to […]

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Sharif Adams - Woodenway

I liberate spoons and bowls from logs, then take them to artisan craft markets where they find new homes. I also run spoon carving and bowl turning courses in Devon, UK. For more information please see my website; www.sharifadams.co.uk

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This post marks the end of another very busy teaching season for me. It’s always great to meet so many newcomers to this craft, and to think that over the years these will be new friendships which will develop. But there’s something especially nice about old friends coming to visit, as is the case here when @adrianrlloyd came to Dartmoor for a few days. Adrian Lloyd (AKA ‘Razorblade Sloyd’), needs no introduction I’m sure. He’s been travelling the country with his army of bowl lathes, teaching all manner of courses and inspiring lots of people to begin their bowl turning journey. He teaches a wide range of traditional crafts from his home in Cumbria, as well as at various venues around the UK. Several years ago he spent a few days with me at Steward Wood, diving in to various aspects of pole lathe bowl turning. Since then we’ve become good friends. He was recently awarded some funding from The Worshipful Company of Turners to enable him to explore and develop his craft skills further, and he got in touch to say he’d like to visit me again to explore locking lidded boxes and nests of bowls. A few days before his visit I realised my old nesting hooks were looking rather sad, so I set about forging a new set. I turned a couple of nests to make sure they worked, and had to endure the usual disasters before the tools had been sufficiently tweaked to do their job well enough. It was a great few days of skill sharing and turning together, and we had some interesting conversations about the weird and wonderful world we live in as traditional craft teachers and makers. The main thing we both kept on realising is that we are extremely fortunate to be doing something we love, and in a position to be able share that passion with others, and spread the love of that around for other people to enjoy too. The photos are fairly self explanatory I think, and prove that we didn’t spend the whole time drinking tea and chatting! Now that my courses are over until next year, I’d like to thank everyone who came on one of my 2019 workshops and I look forward to welcoming those of you who will visit me here as 2020 begins to unfold. #polelathe #nestofbowls #liddedboxes #bowls

Our annual winter art/craft fair is happening soon...it’s always a nice gathering of people and things. Drop in for a chat or to get some special gifts for the festive season. I’ll be there along with @daniellebarlowart @silverandmoor @virginialeeart @oak.and.smoke.tannery and others. #Dartmoor #craftfair #artisanfayre

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