New Teaspoon Advice Please

New Teaspoon Advice Please

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Blib

45,377 posts

203 months

Tuesday 15th October 2013
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Fishtigua said:
If I may be so bold, can I ask a favour?

On behalf of the SGC, can I ask about competitive stirring in the South and SW of England? We have won pretty much all the Channel Island and Normandie/Northern French Opens and are now available to some English challenges.

We would like some harbour/marina based teams to meet, just to keep costs down. We have our own boat, Le Bol de Cuillère, which we can go on tour with.

Any teams we can stir against? (I'm sure we can make it a teaVAT right-off).
Being a Londoner, I have no idea what a 'boat' is, let alone a 'harbour'. Sorry. However, I am looking forward to a stir off with you next February in AnTEAgua.

yes

Fishtigua

9,786 posts

201 months

Tuesday 15th October 2013
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As you bring up the state of West Indian stirring in today's scene, I feel compelled to comment on our style, not our World Ranking.

Yes, we have the natural ability of the British, the loucheness of the French and a two-fingered nuanced stir from the Dutch; we should be right up there with the top teams. Such a shame that petty in-fighting between nations have let a fine history of spooning falter. As the Indian stirrers say लड़खड़ाता हुआ .

Says it all really.

cobra kid

5,217 posts

246 months

Tuesday 15th October 2013
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Any word on the rumour that premises/organisers need to have ISO14001 for containment of the spillages??

I'm not sure we comply at my club.

RDMcG

19,485 posts

213 months

Tuesday 15th October 2013
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Blib said:
Being a Londoner, I have no idea what a 'boat' is, let alone a 'harbour'. Sorry. However, I am looking forward to a stir off with you next February in AnTEAgua.

yes
It a terrifying sort of people container which floats on endless water, and eventually you cannot see buildings. It can also sink, causing everything aboard ( that;s a nautical term), to go the the bottom of the water. Down atthe bottom are untold hoards of spoons caused by people transporting them in this dangerous way, robbing us all of historically vital spoonlore.


Edited by RDMcG on Tuesday 15th October 14:32

RDMcG

19,485 posts

213 months

Tuesday 15th October 2013
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Blib said:
Being a Londoner, I have no idea what a 'boat' is, let alone a 'harbour'. Sorry. However, I am looking forward to a stir off with you next February in AnTEAgua.

yes
It a terrifying sort of people container which floats on endless water, and eventually you cannot see buildings. It can also sink, causing everything aboard ( that;s a nautical term), to go the the bottom of the water. Down atthe bottom are untold hoards of spoons caused by people transporting them in this dangerous way, robbing us all of historically vital spoonlore.


Edited by RDMcG on Tuesday 15th October 14:32

RDMcG

19,485 posts

213 months

Tuesday 15th October 2013
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Blib said:
Being a Londoner, I have no idea what a 'boat' is, let alone a 'harbour'. Sorry. However, I am looking forward to a stir off with you next February in AnTEAgua.

yes
It a terrifying sort of people container which floats on endless water, and eventually you cannot see buildings. It can also sink, causing everything aboard ( that;s a nautical term), to go the the bottom of the water. Down atthe bottom are untold hoards of spoons caused by people transporting them in this dangerous way, robbing us all of historically vital spoonlore.


Edited by RDMcG on Tuesday 15th October 14:32

Fishtigua

9,786 posts

201 months

Tuesday 15th October 2013
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I 'spose you've been watching the REAL Spoon Diver on the Discovery Channel.

What a crock of over-hyped shyte that is. Proper spoon divers, I used to do that as a young man, never ever turn over rocks or vacuum the seabed for spoons. Terrible program that teaches to the young Teaspooners nothing but greed and the rape of the seabed for spoons.

Dreadful.

RDMcG

19,485 posts

213 months

Tuesday 15th October 2013
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Fishtigua said:
I 'spose you've been watching the REAL Spoon Diver on the Discovery Channel.

What a crock of over-hyped shyte that is. Proper spoon divers, I used to do that as a young man, never ever turn over rocks or vacuum the seabed for spoons. Terrible program that teaches to the young Teaspooners nothing but greed and the rape of the seabed for spoons.

Dreadful.
Yes,,I saw a heartbreaking film where a young spoon diver came across a rare VanderHofen veranda spoon which had a few flange limpets, The fool tried to chip them off causing the VH to break in pieces. It was like watching a baby seal being clubbed.

AJS-

15,366 posts

242 months

Wednesday 16th October 2013
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Anyone remember this?



One of the more daring innovations by the privateers in the 1970s, the self stirring mug was voluntarily withdrawn by the team and subsequently banned by the FIS after it's first outing at Anderstorp in 1978, where it dominated everything with a consistently perfect vortex and speeds approaching 500 SPM with a single thumb operation, and not a drop spilt.

Wasn't really much art to it, but quite an impressive spectacle.

RDMcG

19,485 posts

213 months

Wednesday 16th October 2013
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AJS- said:
Anyone remember this?



One of the more daring innovations by the privateers in the 1970s, the self stirring mug was voluntarily withdrawn by the team and subsequently banned by the FIS after it's first outing at Anderstorp in 1978, where it dominated everything with a consistently perfect vortex and speeds approaching 500 SPM with a single thumb operation, and not a drop spilt.

Wasn't really much art to it, but quite an impressive spectacle.
LIke 6 wheeled F1 cars, had to be killed at birth.

Blib

45,377 posts

203 months

Monday 21st October 2013
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I'll just leave this here. (Clue: 427spm).


benjj

6,787 posts

169 months

Monday 21st October 2013
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Like millions of people I'm a fan of marine scrimshaw spoon collecting, particularly baby spoons made from Narhwal tusk.

I picked this little chap up in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland.



You can clearly see '1827' on the bowl. The uninitiated often think this is the date the item was produced. NOT SO. It is actually the number of Narwhals that had to be killed before a specimen was found with the requisite tusk quality. I find this number particularly reassuring.

Hafnarfjörður is fast becoming a bit of a Mecca for Marine Scrimshaw Spoon Collectors particularly Narwhal (MSSCpNs) and prices are sky-rocketing. Many people are talking about a crash in the market. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

NDA

22,255 posts

231 months

Monday 21st October 2013
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Nope

Tallow

1,625 posts

167 months

Monday 21st October 2013
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Blib said:
I'll just leave this here. (Clue: 427spm).

Surely that's not a Qasar Pro?!

Blib

45,377 posts

203 months

Monday 21st October 2013
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Tallow said:
Blib said:
I'll just leave this here. (Clue: 427spm).

Surely that's not a Qasar Pro?!
Sure is. I never thought I'd see a photo of one immediately post-stir. I have no idea how they managed to capture the moment.

RDMcG

19,485 posts

213 months

Monday 21st October 2013
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Blib said:
Sure is. I never thought I'd see a photo of one immediately post-stir. I have no idea how they managed to capture the moment.
What astonishing bowl-drag.....

Fishtigua

9,786 posts

201 months

Monday 21st October 2013
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Not sure if any of you chaps are watching Flog-It right now on Beeb 2?

An old boy just brought in a Müller-Kleinfeld from around the 1820's. Boy, if I had the money, that baby would be mine.

You could spend thousands at some specialist Teaspoon Sales from Bonhams or Phillips (sold with them once, a little disappointed). I swear, these small provincial sales are where the bargains are at.

Tallow

1,625 posts

167 months

Tuesday 22nd October 2013
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Blib said:
Sure is. I never thought I'd see a photo of one immediately post-stir. I have no idea how they managed to capture the moment.
Incredible photography. Imagine the shutter speed needed to capture that!

Blib

45,377 posts

203 months

Tuesday 22nd October 2013
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Tallow said:
Blib said:
Sure is. I never thought I'd see a photo of one immediately post-stir. I have no idea how they managed to capture the moment.
Incredible photography. Imagine the shutter speed needed to capture that!
I have a sneaking suspicion that it may be a 'shopped photo. Look at the return flange. It just doesn't look right.

I hope I'm wrong.

Tallow

1,625 posts

167 months

Wednesday 23rd October 2013
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Blib said:
I have a sneaking suspicion that it may be a 'shopped photo. Look at the return flange. It just doesn't look right.

I hope I'm wrong.
It's certainly fair to say that there aren't many photographers in the world that would have the bowleye lens required to capture this...