A better way of buttering your toast by Ksenia.
Saturday 27 March 2010
Saturday 20 March 2010
What members found in the wood
John´s previously featured pineapple. Improved and painted.
Neet´s head
A classic whittled chain by Jacob. All from one piece.
Jack´s Homer next to the smallest size of Opinel.
Brian brought his own wood to whittle. It was a comb that
he wanted to turn into a demon but that ended up being a pre-historic fish.
Unknown whittler
A man by Adam
Tree by Billy
Billy´s touch on Amy´s head
Monday 15 March 2010
4th Meeting of the BTWC
Photocopy hand-out for the 4th meeting.Big thanks to Ben & Ksenia for hosting the BTWC in their office-spaceship. The club seems to have out-grown its previous venue and with new members joining at each meeting we can only hope that spring will arrive swiftly so that all of us can gather at the place where whittlers belong;
THE FOREST.
THE FOREST.
Knife-sharpening service offered at each meeting
The dog got whittled on and it did not seem to mind
Thursday 11 March 2010
Log Cake
This is a chocolate log-cake with clusters of mushrooms made by Jana & Jack for Maeve on her birthday.
It is not unusual for different species of fungi to live in symbiosis with trees, protecting them from disease and parasites. Other forms of mushrooms like Armillaria ostoyae, a genus of the Honey mushroom, are on the other hand directly harmful as they draw water and carbohydrates from the tree which eventually rots. Unlike most parasites the Honey fungus does not need to keep its host alive to thrive on it so it has a highly destructive impact once a colony is established. As if that was not scary enough, a colony that consists of a single-individual of the Armillaria ostoyae in the Strawberry Mountains in Oregon, USA, is supposedly the largest living organism in the world. It spans 8.9 square kilometers and is estimated to be 2,400 years old with a total mass of 605 tons.
Real Honey Fungus
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