New Teaspoon Advice Please

[Willy Nilly]

AstonZagato said:

This place is always the same. A bloke comes on here asking for a recommendation on a daily stirrer and all sorts of ridiculous suggestions are made (a Krupp FFS! A reasonably priced daily stirrer? What are you lot on? Most of us can only stretch to a Tomkins or a Fleche).

It then descends into a bh fight with lots of spoon waving - who's the best stirrer, who's got the best spoon collection, who's got the best spoon drawer.

Well I for one am sick of it. You all need to get back to what makes stirring fun. Get out your favourite spoon (it doesn't need to be flash), your favourite cup (hell, it doesn't even need to be bone china), your favourite tea - sit back and have a bloody good stir. That is what it is all about.

Quite. I still haven't had a suitable recommendation for a daily stirrer and the old Stirmaster is suffering badly for cavitation on the leading edge of the way flange. This in turn is causing scoring on the inside of my crockery and giving a poor tea/milk interface. There is a 2013 Stirmax R available at a local dealer for a very attractive price, he's pushing me into a quick sale by saying X, Y and Z are coming for a test stir before the weekend and if I don't make my mind up soon it will be gone. He's probably bluffing, so my money is staying put until I've done more research.

[Hugo a Gogo]

bloody Stirmax, poseurs spoon

now the Krupp....

[Blib]

Willy Nilly said:

Quite. I still haven't had a suitable recommendation for a daily stirrer and the old Stirmaster is suffering badly for cavitation on the leading edge of the way flange. This in turn is causing scoring on the inside of my crockery and giving a poor tea/milk interface. There is a 2013 Stirmax R available at a local dealer for a very attractive price, he's pushing me into a quick sale by saying X, Y and Z are coming for a test stir before the weekend and if I don't make my mind up soon it will be gone. He's probably bluffing, so my money is staying put until I've done more research.

Buy the bloody Stirmax.

Next.

[NDA]

Willy Nilly said:

Quite. I still haven't had a suitable recommendation for a daily stirrer and the old Stirmaster is suffering badly for cavitation on the leading edge of the way flange. This in turn is causing scoring on the inside of my crockery and giving a poor tea/milk interface. There is a 2013 Stirmax R available at a local dealer for a very attractive price, he's pushing me into a quick sale by saying X, Y and Z are coming for a test stir before the weekend and if I don't make my mind up soon it will be gone. He's probably bluffing, so my money is staying put until I've done more research.

Send it back to Stirmaster (d'uh).

Their service intervals are down to 5 weeks and it'll come back as good as new. They'll put a new leading flange in any material you like - unobtanium being the current favourite.

[Pints]

I think it's this sort of thing that's been devaluing the Krupp name.

http://m.ebay.com.au/itm?itemId=110861841327

Acceptable? Or a desperate attempt to cash in on the name?

[DanielSan]

Nice way to have all the looks of a top end stirrer but without the high maintenance and short service intervals of the true Krupp models.

Think of it as a 355 kitted MR2.

[anonymous-user]

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Vintage-RODD-NEMESIA-Si...

This one is a joke, right? A supposedly genuine orphan Nemesia, for $5? And aussie dollars at that?! Surely I'm due a parrot, or it's a joke listing?

[Hugo a Gogo]

that takes me back "Arthur Krupp Made in Italy"

an interesting story
Arturro Palucci, born in Süd Tirol in 1919, studied under master spooners there in Northern Italy, became an accomplished cutler in his own right
During WW2 he was posted to Corfu, with the advance espresso battalions
Taken prisoner by the Wehrmacht, one of his captors was none other than Wolfgang Krupp, scion of the (in)famous Krupp spoon family
eventually after talking for many nights, they discovered Arturro was the illegitimate son of Harald Krupp, fathered in a brief liaison at the end of the first world war

The Krupps thought no more of it, but Arturro was determined to be part of his new family, changed his name to Arthur Krupp and started the line of stubby spoons you see represented there

Sadly it didn't work out and he killed himself in 1964, just before the celebrated Ljubljana show, where his spoons took the Golden Biscuit

[Blib]

Is it me? Or, has this thread, like so many others recently on Pistonheads, been hijacked by Kruppists? Been filled, as it were, by Krupp?

[Hugo a Gogo]

this should cheer you up Blib
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ANTIQUE-SOLID-SILVER-PAU...
I know you can't help but raise a smile when you see a Paul Storr, brings back a few memories, eh?

[Blib]

Hugo a Gogo said:

this should cheer you up Blib
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ANTIQUE-SOLID-SILVER-PAU...
I know you can't help but raise a smile when you see a Paul Storr, brings back a few memories, eh?

Doesn't it just, Hugo. Cape Town, '83. Do you remember that time when we got mixed up with that troupe of Ndebele fire walkers? Thank god you had those Cardigan Stowaway emergency tea trays to hand. So discrete that no one noticed that we'd tied them to the soles of our feet. The tea certainly flowed that night.

Such happy, happy days. They pass so quickly.

Still, back OT. It's a shame that Storr went over to coffee. His return flanges were to die for. Do you know why he switched so suddenly after the 2001 Stavanger "Spoon-Inn"? I don't believe he gave an interview from that date until his untimely death two years later on South Georgia, when he was crushed by a forty foot long tea strainer in that tragic Guinness World record tea service incident.

[Hugo a Gogo]

I could go into it, but I still find it too painful to talk about Stavanger

[omgus]

I go away for two weeks and everything goes to Krupp!

Coincidently there may be some news of a decent spoon find in Spain soon, whilst i was over there it seemed that one of the Costa Del Crime boys was picked up and the local Magistrate has taken his spoon collection, i'm not a 100% sure but rumours of a complete set of Jacobsons (Mk1 - Mk8) are flying around the spoonistas over there.

Also the Ibiza Spoon festival was wonderful this year, the quality of the spoons may not be great but the atmosphere and the Mediterranean stirring technique add to some interesting times, hopefully next year some of the bigger collectors will make the journey.

[deeen]

"Spooniasta" in Spain, surely??? Spoonista is Italian, AFAIK.

Yes I know the two languages are related, but details are details.

[Hugo a Gogo]

don't flipping talk to me about flipping Spanish so-called spooners

[Fishtigua]

deeen said:

"Spooniasta" in Spain, surely??? Spoonista is Italian, AFAIK.

As a collector of early Caribbean and South American spoons, the universal term is Cucharistas.

In native Arawak/Baure it is spoken as tiyowok. (Spoon nosed heron).

[NDA]

The Crack Fox said:

I've got a question for the more experienced Spoonistas here;

I have recently inherited what I think is a Schmitt & Schicklegrüber size 3 teaspoon from the estate of my late Uncle. There's heavy tannin staining in the underside of the bowl, the "PG Tips patina", as I believe it's called. Also, the handle is slightly bent after Aunt Maureen dug a little too vigorously in the sugar bowl once.

My question is; do I get it dipped, chromed and a new handle done, perhaps converting the bowl from imperial clockwise stir to metric anticlockwise stir too, or do I leave it as it left the factory in 1974? I'm torn.

Leave well alone.

The early Schmitt & Schicklegrübe's would be ruined by restoration - the patina is something collectors look for.

As for converting the vortex pattern to metric? Madness.

Keep as is - it's a fine object without further adornment.

[Hugo a Gogo]

you have to be carfeul though, you don't want to slip into 'Rat Look' spooning

a sympathetic mainshaft straightening could be beneficial, there are a small number of specialists I could recommend, the best of which being, of course, Harry the Horse McGonagle on South Uist

[Blib]

How's the return flange?

[DanielSan]

McGonagle is nothing more than a bloody fraudster! A close spooner sent his prized collection away not more than 6 months ago for a 'like new' restoration and he's still waiting for completion of the first spoon, there's 2346 in his collection ffs!

He promised he could take on a collection of this magnitude and has delivered nothing but hollow excuses and idle chat in return for a €3000 deposit!

Scum. Subhuman scum.

Edited by DanielSan on Saturday 7th June 14:45