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Wild Cherry Salt Bowl #1

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  Price $45 with free shipping in the continental US. I ship using USPS Ground, which is the least expensive option that included a tracking number.  If you prefer Priority Mail or another shipping option, international shipping or would like to combine shipping on multiple items to save a little money, please email me at  judson@judsoncarroll.com Last August a lady asked me to carve a salt bowl for the rustic cabin she and her husband were building in the Smoky Mountains of TN.  I came up with this little bird bowl design based on traditional Swiss carving. I have been wanting to carve one to offer for sale ever since, but demand for spoons had been so great that I had to put my plans on hold.  Finally, I axed out a piece of wild cherry that had the right grain pattern and immediately saw a salt bowl in in the wood. Everything I carve, I hope to be used in kitchens and on the table.  Salt dishes are very traditional and useful.  The design is both functional and an artisti
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Wild Cherry Salad set #1

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  Price $50 with free shipping in the continental US. I ship using USPS Ground, which is the least expensive option that included a tracking number.  If you prefer Priority Mail or another shipping option, international shipping or would like to combine shipping on multiple items to save a little money, please email me at  judson@judsoncarroll.com I like salads probably more than most guys - mix of French heritage and being a gardener and forager.  So, when I began carving what was to be a spoon (on the left) and found a tiny worm hole I decided to make a salad set instead.   Such little worm holes change the wood in beautiful and surprising ways.  In fact, a lot of carvers specifically search for such wood.  So, I thought this would be a nice way to show off the variation since the scoop on the right has such perfectly straight grain. Both pieces came from the same log, by the way. From a practical perspective, a salad set makes a lot of sense.  You see, most people make
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Cooking Spoon #4

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  Price $30 with free shipping in the continental US. I ship using USPS Ground, which is the least expensive option that included a tracking number.  If you prefer Priority Mail or another shipping option, international shipping or would like to combine shipping on multiple items to save a little money, please email me at  judson@judsoncarroll.com This is a new design I came up with, that I really like.  The wood is paper birch, and has a nice, straight grain.  I was able to follow the grain to make a very attractive shape. It is a nice, large cooking spoon, sturdy and functional.  The wood has some very attractive grain patterns which allowed for straight carving lines and gentle curves. I think whoever buys this one will enjoy using it.  It is sealed with Walnut Oil.  As always, my woodwork is sustainably sourced from trees that are storm damaged or that must be thinned. Each piece is entirely hand made in the ancient greenwood tradition. I use only a hand saw, a small a
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Salad Set #1

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  Price $50 with free shipping in the continental US. I ship using USPS Ground, which is the least expensive option that included a tracking number.  If you prefer Priority Mail or another shipping option, international shipping or would like to combine shipping on multiple items to save a little money, please email me at  judson@judsoncarroll.com This week, I decided to carve a salad set from paper birch.  These are designed to toss, dress and serve salad.   As a forager, gardener and herbalist, I enjoy salads most days.  My favorite is a mix of greens, herbs and fresh veggies, including lots of ramps or garlic chives, with blue cheese or feta, homemade croutons, smoked fish, boiled eggs, bacon and a homemade dressing. I carved these in the Scandanavian style, with hooks on the back so that they can hang conveniently on a rack or on the salad bowl. I think whoever buys this these will enjoy using them.  They are sealed with Walnut Oil.  As always, my woodwork is sustainabl
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Pine Needle Basket #2

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  Price $100 with free shipping in the continental US. I ship using USPS Ground, which is the least expensive option that included a tracking number.  If you prefer Priority Mail or another shipping option, international shipping or would like to combine shipping on multiple items to save a little money, please email me at  judson@judsoncarroll.com This basket is the result of a walk in the woods.  I happened under a pine tree where squirrels had been eating pinecones.  They actually eat the seeds, or pine nuts.  Our native pines don't have nuts large enough to gather for human consumption, but we have millions of big grey squirrels, some red squirrels, lots of flying squirrels and my favorite, the fox squirrel.  Well, one of them left me this partial pinecone under the tree. The shape and size of the pinecone was perfect for a knob on a box type basket with a lid.  So, I gathered a bag full of green pine needles and let them dry for a few weeks while I figured out the
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Scoop #1

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  Price $30 with free shipping in the continental US. I ship using USPS Ground, which is the least expensive option that included a tracking number.  If you prefer Priority Mail or another shipping option, international shipping or would like to combine shipping on multiple items to save a little money, please email me at  judson@judsoncarroll.com I have been wanting to carve a scoop for some time.  My grandfather's last project was a living history museum.  He bought an old homestead and several period buildings such as a post office, tack shop, general store, etc., and began filling them with antiques.  His vision never became a reality, but I grew up around a LOT... literally thousands of items from the 17-1800s.  That included many scoops. Every household before 1900 or so would have had a variety of scoops.  They were used for flour, sugar, beans, coffee, rice, etc. in the kitchen and to scoop seeds, feed, etc. on the farm.   In the many books I have collected on
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Pine Needle Basket #1

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  Price $75 with free shipping in the continental US. I ship using USPS Ground, which is the least expensive option that included a tracking number.  If you prefer Priority Mail or another shipping option, international shipping or would like to combine shipping on multiple items to save a little money, please email me at  judson@judsoncarroll.com I spent much of my childhood in the southeastern NC swamps where making Pine Needle baskets is a very old tradition.  These were made both by the several Native American tribes in the area and by the settlers.  My grandmother told me that several members of our family in her grandmother's generation were basket makers back when baskets were an essential part of farm life. I learned to make Pine Needle baskets from a Lumbee lady when I was in 3rd grade or so.  I learned the Cherokee style of Honeysuckle basket making and the Appalachian style of While Oak basket making in my teens when my family returned to the mountains. Makin
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