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Handsome jack doppelganger pack reddit4/16/2023 ![]() In fact, your spoon story is likely to be as important as the spoon itself. And like anything you make for yourself, it can hold so much more meaning than a store-bought item. Beyond the spoon itself, it’s strangely satisfying to make something as simple, timeless, and basic as an eating implement with your own hands. Is a wooden spoon as practical as the perennial bikepacker’s favourite, the Ti spork? Probably not! This said, it’s best to view such a comparison through a different lens. ![]() But we’ve added in examples and advice from spoon makers who are more adept than I am, so you can see where cultivating your whittling skills can take you… With my limited experience in mind, this is very much a guide geared to anyone who has never carved before and like me, wants to give it a go. It can also be something you can enjoy on a longer bikepacking trip, providing creative downtime to riding, as well as being a way of learning about the environment around you and becoming more observant too. The added appeal to spoon-making, however, is that it can be experienced on your actual trip, with very few tools, which makes it especially fun and approachable. Eating aside, this applies to other items that you can make for your bikpacking adventures, be it as involving as a framebag, following Logan’s DIY post, or a stembag, with Neza as your guide. The process has also installed newfound respect for the simple joys of enjoying my dinner with a self-made implement, as well as a deeper appreciation for all those who make things with their hands. I now consider myself very much an amateur enthusiast with a number of spoons to my name but much to learn. ![]() Like many good intentions, I’d been mulling over the idea of carving myself a wooden spoon for a few years – inspired by such expert spoon-making bikepackers as Michael Dammer, who runs an Outdoor Education centre in Ecuador, and Mehedi van Hattum, a furniture maker from New Mexico, who part-funded his journey across the Americas by selling the beautiful wooden spoons he made en route.įinally, the opportunity to make my own actually arose and I have to say that I was immediately smitten with the whole process: from choosing and sourcing the wood, to creating the actual spoon, to using it to eat my meals! ![]()
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