Treenware: Wooden Kitchen Utensils You Can Make
is a 45 page phamplet published by Rodale Press, Inc. in 1980. It
was apparently popular enough to go into a second printing. That's
amazing because it is almost worthless.
This treenware book starts with one and one fourth pages of background
which tells you that "Treen" came from an old Saxon word meaning
"Made from Trees" and that the utensils shown in the book were
made from poplar, although maple or white ash would be better.
In other words, they didn't want to waste any time actually making
something useful, they just needed a quick prop to photograph!
The rest of this book shows pages of treenware you can make---
if you can make something from a sketch drawn on graph paper and
directions that read like "Turn to the desired shape. Sand
to a smooth finish." If you know enough to work from
directions like that, you probably don't need the book.
Definately NOT worth the money-even buying it used.
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Woods:
Wood to make treenware needs to be strong and close grained. This
is required to prevent it from absorbing liquids when it is in
use.
Modern Treenware
Modern wood carvers have a much greater range of woods to choose
from, although the dense, fine grained woods they need are expensive.
The center column has a list of all the wood currently for sale
on Ebay. Wood carvers and wood turners have clearly never
had it so good.
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