New Teaspoon Advice Please
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Hugo a Gogo said:
not my scene man, although I do have a nice Dodi al Fayed commemorative edition I bought from an Egyptian grocer, would go well as a companion piece
I found a set of these when clearing out my dead grans stuff.
They fit neatly around the B-pillar of a mercedes S280. Perfect for a family picnic, or a trip to the seaside.
Am I doing this right?
I told the wife no more but I just had to have these, stunning!
http://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/466517/rare-boxed...
http://www.sellingantiques.co.uk/466517/rare-boxed...
67Dino said:
Gorgeous. My understanding is that Fárk uses traditional Japanese tamahagane or "jewel steel" (tama - ball or jewel, hagane - steel) in the construction. As a result it can be shot through a mahogany door from a cross-bow without picking up the slightest scratch. Careful washing it though, as Fairy Liquid will leave a nasty stain.
Thank you for the compliment. Regarding the cleaning, i will not partake in any form of cleaning since it is to much like manual labour which i find abhorrent and will never do. I will send the spoon away to Zurich to be fettled if and when it needs it.eldar said:
NDA said:
Not Butch Cheeseman? Say it's not him!!!
It would appear it is he. Do you believe his reputation - unlike my spoon - is slightly tarnished? 'Reputations are like spoons......' is what he says. I don't know the rest of the quote, I'm sure it's something insightful.
Definitely think this is the last season for my winter "station" spoon that I've been using during this inclement weather - a 2002 Chinpatsu Micro that I picked up for an embarrassingly small amount for how well it has served. Alas, having only used it sparingly over the summer for tip-runs and occasionally levering the lid off from a tin of paint, its performance is now lacking on the cold mornings when I need something more reliable for my morning commute-a.
Hi Chaps,
That's it, I can't not post anymore.
I've been following this thread since inception and I've gone from thinking that you are all mad, to buying a cpl of hobbyist magazines whilst waiting for the trains on my commute. Having scratched the surface I find that I can't walk away and in those few and far between quiet times find my thoughts returning to the articles read. I was fascinated by the 'new world spoons' in July's article and hadn't realized such a travel log could exist. I cannot wait to read about the Australian attempts from the early 1900's - based on what I believe you would refer to as the Cptn Cook original ?
It's pretty clear that you can't just jump into the world of Teaspoons and any attempt would most likely end up with injuries to oneself. However I'm wondering how you all broke the surface and started your first spins ?
Also would this be a hobby that my engineering studying son would follow me ? Are they any Father Son collectors ? I'm thinking whilst I may appreciate the history, he's going to love the world of return flanges and handle to stem gearing ?
I have 'written in' to the SpoonHolders magazine, but they do seem to favor the full drawer set, rather than specifically Teaspoons ??
Lastly, is it TeaSpoon or Teaspoon I have seen references to both ?
Rgds
That's it, I can't not post anymore.
I've been following this thread since inception and I've gone from thinking that you are all mad, to buying a cpl of hobbyist magazines whilst waiting for the trains on my commute. Having scratched the surface I find that I can't walk away and in those few and far between quiet times find my thoughts returning to the articles read. I was fascinated by the 'new world spoons' in July's article and hadn't realized such a travel log could exist. I cannot wait to read about the Australian attempts from the early 1900's - based on what I believe you would refer to as the Cptn Cook original ?
It's pretty clear that you can't just jump into the world of Teaspoons and any attempt would most likely end up with injuries to oneself. However I'm wondering how you all broke the surface and started your first spins ?
Also would this be a hobby that my engineering studying son would follow me ? Are they any Father Son collectors ? I'm thinking whilst I may appreciate the history, he's going to love the world of return flanges and handle to stem gearing ?
I have 'written in' to the SpoonHolders magazine, but they do seem to favor the full drawer set, rather than specifically Teaspoons ??
Lastly, is it TeaSpoon or Teaspoon I have seen references to both ?
Rgds
paul_y3k said:
Hi Chaps,
That's it, I can't not post anymore.
I've been following this thread since inception and I've gone from thinking that you are all mad, to buying a cpl of hobbyist magazines whilst waiting for the trains on my commute. Having scratched the surface I find that I can't walk away and in those few and far between quiet times find my thoughts returning to the articles read. I was fascinated by the 'new world spoons' in July's article and hadn't realized such a travel log could exist. I cannot wait to read about the Australian attempts from the early 1900's - based on what I believe you would refer to as the Cptn Cook original ?
It's pretty clear that you can't just jump into the world of Teaspoons and any attempt would most likely end up with injuries to oneself. However I'm wondering how you all broke the surface and started your first spins ?
Also would this be a hobby that my engineering studying son would follow me ? Are they any Father Son collectors ? I'm thinking whilst I may appreciate the history, he's going to love the world of return flanges and handle to stem gearing ?
I have 'written in' to the SpoonHolders magazine, but they do seem to favor the full drawer set, rather than specifically Teaspoons ??
Lastly, is it TeaSpoon or Teaspoon I have seen references to both ?
Rgds
I started after being willed a Montezhras mk2 and once held, never forgotten That's it, I can't not post anymore.
I've been following this thread since inception and I've gone from thinking that you are all mad, to buying a cpl of hobbyist magazines whilst waiting for the trains on my commute. Having scratched the surface I find that I can't walk away and in those few and far between quiet times find my thoughts returning to the articles read. I was fascinated by the 'new world spoons' in July's article and hadn't realized such a travel log could exist. I cannot wait to read about the Australian attempts from the early 1900's - based on what I believe you would refer to as the Cptn Cook original ?
It's pretty clear that you can't just jump into the world of Teaspoons and any attempt would most likely end up with injuries to oneself. However I'm wondering how you all broke the surface and started your first spins ?
Also would this be a hobby that my engineering studying son would follow me ? Are they any Father Son collectors ? I'm thinking whilst I may appreciate the history, he's going to love the world of return flanges and handle to stem gearing ?
I have 'written in' to the SpoonHolders magazine, but they do seem to favor the full drawer set, rather than specifically Teaspoons ??
Lastly, is it TeaSpoon or Teaspoon I have seen references to both ?
Rgds
However do not limit yourself to the world of tea spooning, I myself am also a major advocate for the dessert spoon, but there again I do live by the old adage “go big or go home” ...
To cut a long story short.....
My father had no interest in stirring. His father, my grandfather, was a scion of the East End Shmitzengruber dynasty, who'd brought their love of spoons and competitive stirring over from Prussia in the 1840s. The pair of them fell out over a Struck 94b-2 (something to do with return flange angles, I think) and dad turned away from all things spoon.
Anyway, when pappy Shmitzengruber died, I was left his collection of spoons.
Including a rare Styrolean Tornado, a Milano 43(b) and of course, the spoon I'm known for and still use in competition today, my Krupp Schtirrentassenfartheimesshugener (b).
I was hooked, and though I lost my right arm in a contest in Vienna, 1974, when Hugo a gogo deliberately distracted me as I was attempting 3450rpm while inverted (hence the continuing animosity seen on this thread) I taught myself to stir competitively, left handed.
My forum name comes from my signature move, where I grasp the return flange between thumb and ring finger and twist, or 'Blib' it.
HTH.
My father had no interest in stirring. His father, my grandfather, was a scion of the East End Shmitzengruber dynasty, who'd brought their love of spoons and competitive stirring over from Prussia in the 1840s. The pair of them fell out over a Struck 94b-2 (something to do with return flange angles, I think) and dad turned away from all things spoon.
Anyway, when pappy Shmitzengruber died, I was left his collection of spoons.
Including a rare Styrolean Tornado, a Milano 43(b) and of course, the spoon I'm known for and still use in competition today, my Krupp Schtirrentassenfartheimesshugener (b).
I was hooked, and though I lost my right arm in a contest in Vienna, 1974, when Hugo a gogo deliberately distracted me as I was attempting 3450rpm while inverted (hence the continuing animosity seen on this thread) I taught myself to stir competitively, left handed.
My forum name comes from my signature move, where I grasp the return flange between thumb and ring finger and twist, or 'Blib' it.
HTH.
My first exposure to the world of professional standard spoonology was a US magazine my uncle had picked up on a trip. The suave machismo of those 1970s competitors combined with the (at the time) innovative beaten flange end designs set me on the path. I’ve still got the poster I sent off for of George Shearwater IV in a blue velvet jacket holding his famous modified gold Styx and Kockley ‘armageddon’. Intoxicating.
In 1977 i was stirring my tea in a local tearoom when i was discovered by a talent scout. Apparently he spotted raw natural talent in me and begged me to enter the European stirring championships that were happening in Innsbruck.
I entered the competition and reached the semi finals , but when my back was turned someone must have tampered with the return flange which reduced the drag coefficient so much the vortex was creating splash back and i was thrown out of the competition.
I entered the competition and reached the semi finals , but when my back was turned someone must have tampered with the return flange which reduced the drag coefficient so much the vortex was creating splash back and i was thrown out of the competition.
As many will know, my father was the owner of a well-known spooning venue, I was groomed into spooning from a very young ages, it's in my blood, I got my first competitive spooning licence at age 14 in Luxembourg
I served an apprenticeship at Krupp, whilst steadily coming up through the junior spooning ranks, then I signed with the short-lived Scottish Ginelli importer's team, a terrible mistake, which I regret every day, ultimately quitting when I was blamed for a foolish amateur's terrible injuries in Vienna
I drifted out of spooning for several years, travelled extensively throughout Asia Minor, learned Pot Throwing from the established masters in Yemen, gave that up, fled to Bora Bora, became a world champion surfer, lost interest in that, spent some time in South and Central America got a girl in trouble (got her involved in gun-running for the Contras, oops), joined a Jesuit order, was kicked out for some 'irregularites' (the money was 'resting' in my account!)
Met the Dalai Lama, over a cup of Laspsang Souchon he made me realise where I'd been going wrong all these years, came back to Europe, impressed the Krupp factory scouts, and that brings us right back up to date, lead developer at TeamKrupp
I served an apprenticeship at Krupp, whilst steadily coming up through the junior spooning ranks, then I signed with the short-lived Scottish Ginelli importer's team, a terrible mistake, which I regret every day, ultimately quitting when I was blamed for a foolish amateur's terrible injuries in Vienna
I drifted out of spooning for several years, travelled extensively throughout Asia Minor, learned Pot Throwing from the established masters in Yemen, gave that up, fled to Bora Bora, became a world champion surfer, lost interest in that, spent some time in South and Central America got a girl in trouble (got her involved in gun-running for the Contras, oops), joined a Jesuit order, was kicked out for some 'irregularites' (the money was 'resting' in my account!)
Met the Dalai Lama, over a cup of Laspsang Souchon he made me realise where I'd been going wrong all these years, came back to Europe, impressed the Krupp factory scouts, and that brings us right back up to date, lead developer at TeamKrupp
As we’re all telling our stories.
I was raised in a humble home, times were tough and I remember my old dad having to stir his tea with nowt but a pencil (a 2B was what he mostly used)
Anyway, we didn’t have much, we would sit around in the winter and dad would have a XXX mint and we’d warm our hands on his breath.
It all changed when by chance I got into a spoon club at school, it was that or go home to help mum milking the rats in the shed (she’d sell the rat milk to the poorer families, yes there were poorer)
I started off simply, our teacher ran the class, he was a small man, grey hair and glasses (grey glasses, not the frames, the lenses) called Jeremiah Watters (“two teas, no sugar” he’d say every time he said his name) who’d been in the oil industry, no kids and while he was offshore he’d work and read books on international stirring competitions.
Anyway, he took part in the ill fated 1951 Cup Du Jour in Naples (16 deaths when the Russian team bought their plutonium edged flanged Krupp copies) and actually beat Jaminder Fir
ur who’d placed his 1875 Wharton-Krupp Fleur Du Pomp with modified return shaft on the match.
Long story short, Old Mr Watters took a shine to me, we’d spend hours talking Spoon craft and all the people he’d met over the years, I learnt much from that man and after he passed (bad reaction to a coffee
) I was shocked to find he’d bequeathed me his entire collection. I still have them all and have of course expanded this greatly into (what I believe to be) one of the best private collections in the Western Hemisphere. On par with Bilbs setup IMO.
My dad still used a pencil (2B) up til the day he died, despite me buying him a Krupp 23(b) with full Rhodium plating to use. That still sits unused next to his ashes.
Spooning has a way of transcending generations IMO.
I was raised in a humble home, times were tough and I remember my old dad having to stir his tea with nowt but a pencil (a 2B was what he mostly used)
Anyway, we didn’t have much, we would sit around in the winter and dad would have a XXX mint and we’d warm our hands on his breath.
It all changed when by chance I got into a spoon club at school, it was that or go home to help mum milking the rats in the shed (she’d sell the rat milk to the poorer families, yes there were poorer)
I started off simply, our teacher ran the class, he was a small man, grey hair and glasses (grey glasses, not the frames, the lenses) called Jeremiah Watters (“two teas, no sugar” he’d say every time he said his name) who’d been in the oil industry, no kids and while he was offshore he’d work and read books on international stirring competitions.
Anyway, he took part in the ill fated 1951 Cup Du Jour in Naples (16 deaths when the Russian team bought their plutonium edged flanged Krupp copies) and actually beat Jaminder Fir
ur who’d placed his 1875 Wharton-Krupp Fleur Du Pomp with modified return shaft on the match.Long story short, Old Mr Watters took a shine to me, we’d spend hours talking Spoon craft and all the people he’d met over the years, I learnt much from that man and after he passed (bad reaction to a coffee
) I was shocked to find he’d bequeathed me his entire collection. I still have them all and have of course expanded this greatly into (what I believe to be) one of the best private collections in the Western Hemisphere. On par with Bilbs setup IMO.My dad still used a pencil (2B) up til the day he died, despite me buying him a Krupp 23(b) with full Rhodium plating to use. That still sits unused next to his ashes.
Spooning has a way of transcending generations IMO.
Edited by Butter Face on Tuesday 12th December 20:47
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