New Teaspoon Advice Please
Discussion
wolfracesonic said:
enjo said:
Just bought a dishwasher after pondering on the pros and cons for some time. I just came here to admit that my teaspoons are so much shiner these days that it makes me slightly depressed about my manual washing up skills.
What's their name?OpulentBob said:
Cottard & Crispian's want almost double that for a tatty, water damaged example!!
They rely on a new money from Asia, the prices reflect that. It is a shame but what with the amount of decent teaspoons (and general spoon paraphernalia) on the open market dropping there is a definite and cynical overpricing occurring.
I understand supply and demand but i saw an average Wessell 56 wide flange go for 5 times what was paid last year for a top quality model. If the bubble bursts there will be a lot of annoyed investors floating around.
MacW said:
wolfracesonic said:
enjo said:
Just bought a dishwasher after pondering on the pros and cons for some time. I just came here to admit that my teaspoons are so much shiner these days that it makes me slightly depressed about my manual washing up skills.
What's their name?Taking inspiration from Insights thread on the Bloodhound SSC think I may build a spoon capable of breaking the world stirring record. I think the tip should be in the shape of a speech bubble with a slim aerofoil profile. Just not sure whether it should be carbon fibre or hand forged magnesium.
tmk2 said:
Taking inspiration from Insights thread on the Bloodhound SSC think I may build a spoon capable of breaking the world stirring record. I think the tip should be in the shape of a speech bubble with a slim aerofoil profile. Just not sure whether it should be carbon fibre or hand forged magnesium.
I greatly admire what you are proposing but there are a couple of issues. Where would you find someone to stir this spoon, i have been lucky enough to try a few of the Campbell Speed Record spoons, and as a practised and confident stirrer i would say they are at the limit of what a normal person can achieve.
Once you have hit the 200+rpm range there are very few people who can go much higher and possibly less than ten worldwide that would risk going about 300rpm. Especially after that awful incident at the All Hallows Spoon festival when someone lost control at 240rpm and covered the audience in Earl Grey, bone china and the mostly minced remains of the officiator.
Of course you can use a "stirring machine" but then that brings us to the split between the British Racing Spooners Club and the Federation Internasional de Stirring, and meeting both of their separate requirements would be a massive engineering task.
However if you go ahead please keep us updated as i would love to be involved, perhaps for a small fee we could have a message etched into the flange?
Maybe, Haymarket could run a competition. "Win your name on a Spoon"? They're good with that type of thing.
Two comments on the record atempt. Firstly, where's the skill in using a machine to do the stirring? Men have stirred competitively for centuries. I see no point in changing it. Like chess, a machine could and would eventually beat a man. But, there's no soul in a Stirra-Tron-3585.
Secondly, while I admire the poster's desire to use magnesium in the leading edges, no one has yet created a magnesium return flange rated above 175spm. The proposed leap to 300+ is, to my mind, beyond twenty first century spoonists. Yes, yes, I know that it would work on a space station. But, it wouldn't work at the Penge Spoonipiad, now would it?
Two comments on the record atempt. Firstly, where's the skill in using a machine to do the stirring? Men have stirred competitively for centuries. I see no point in changing it. Like chess, a machine could and would eventually beat a man. But, there's no soul in a Stirra-Tron-3585.
Secondly, while I admire the poster's desire to use magnesium in the leading edges, no one has yet created a magnesium return flange rated above 175spm. The proposed leap to 300+ is, to my mind, beyond twenty first century spoonists. Yes, yes, I know that it would work on a space station. But, it wouldn't work at the Penge Spoonipiad, now would it?
Well, when it comes to record-breaking stirring, its hazards are hostile to us all.
Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But why, some say, the spoon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 85 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Penge stir against East Grimstead? We choose to stir with the spoon. We choose to stir the 300rpm spoon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too
Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again. But why, some say, the spoon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 85 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Penge stir against East Grimstead? We choose to stir with the spoon. We choose to stir the 300rpm spoon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too
Blib said:
Maybe, Haymarket could run a competition. "Win your name on a Spoon"? They're good with that type of thing.
Two comments on the record atempt. Firstly, where's the skill in using a machine to do the stirring? Men have stirred competitively for centuries. I see no point in changing it. Like chess, a machine could and would eventually beat a man. But, there's no soul in a Stirra-Tron-3585.
Secondly, while I admire the poster's desire to use magnesium in the leading edges, no one has yet created a magnesium return flange rated above 175spm. The proposed leap to 300+ is, to my mind, beyond twenty first century spoonists. Yes, yes, I know that it would work on a space station. But, it wouldn't work at the Penge Spoonipiad, now would it?
I think a key question is not the spoon magnesium compound - but the tea itself - sure the average competition spooner can reach 175spm - but if we are stirring before adding the milk, then the viscosity of the fluid will be lower, enabling a substantial spm increase. Maybe not to the 300spm level, but potentially into the 200+spmTwo comments on the record atempt. Firstly, where's the skill in using a machine to do the stirring? Men have stirred competitively for centuries. I see no point in changing it. Like chess, a machine could and would eventually beat a man. But, there's no soul in a Stirra-Tron-3585.
Secondly, while I admire the poster's desire to use magnesium in the leading edges, no one has yet created a magnesium return flange rated above 175spm. The proposed leap to 300+ is, to my mind, beyond twenty first century spoonists. Yes, yes, I know that it would work on a space station. But, it wouldn't work at the Penge Spoonipiad, now would it?
Then you have the added question of milk types; from skimmed to gold-top - think of the friction increase that will hamper the best of the stirrers!
Charlie Michael said:
I think a key question is not the spoon magnesium compound - but the tea itself - sure the average competition spooner can reach 175spm - but if we are stirring before adding the milk, then the viscosity of the fluid will be lower, enabling a substantial spm increase. Maybe not to the 300spm level, but potentially into the 200+spm
Then you have the added question of milk types; from skimmed to gold-top - think of the friction increase that will hamper the best of the stirrers!
Think I will go with semi skimmed as per Federation Internasional de Stirring regs but for nostalgia and because it would be correct I will do a run with cream to fulfil British Racing Spooners Club rules. Despite being slower it is more of a challenge. Then you have the added question of milk types; from skimmed to gold-top - think of the friction increase that will hamper the best of the stirrers!
tmk2 said:
Think I will go with semi skimmed as per Federation Internasional de Stirring regs but for nostalgia and because it would be correct I will do a run with cream to fulfil British Racing Spooners Club rules. Despite being slower it is more of a challenge.
What about your flange? I need to know about your flange.The flange is similar to the failed 1998 record attempt from Gwyneth of Wales (see pic) but with the convex shaft filling out to an oval profile to avoid the splashback issue.
Also as a side note we are recruiting a former world table tennis champion for the record due to similar strengths in the arms and wrists, which means we are now going for a Boron bowl and Carbon shaft to increase momentum.
Also as a side note we are recruiting a former world table tennis champion for the record due to similar strengths in the arms and wrists, which means we are now going for a Boron bowl and Carbon shaft to increase momentum.
Edited by tmk2 on Thursday 8th May 18:09
I just came across this. While I understand it is a couple of months old - it is simply unacceptable the Government is making attempts to make teaspoon collecting illegal.
Not the greatest start to a collection.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-26...
Not the greatest start to a collection.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-26...
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