New Teaspoon Advice Please

[SCEtoAUX]

eldar said:

KP328 said:

I was going to venture up to Scotland to look at the spoon but decided not to after seeing the review on Spoonadviser that simply said - let doon by the spoon o' Troon.

Something has changed. I visited in 2017, and the spoon was magnificent in every way.

I fear the curator, McPhail, may have been replaced by someone less touched by genius.

McPhail was replaced in late '17 by, well let's say some who "preferred his tea stirred from the handle side". Nonetheless I expected some integrity, but what I saw was an affront to spooning of the "modern age". I left disgusted.

[eldar]

I commend the following sycamore teaspoon. I do have concerns about death watch beetle.

https://www.takahashimcgil.com/product-page/spoon

[wolfracesonic]

eldar said:

I commend the following sycamore teaspoon. I do have concerns about death watch beetle.

https://www.takahashimcgil.com/product-page/spoon

I was going to rule myself out when I read not dishwasher safe, then I remembered my Holtzapffel maschinenfabrik spoon cleanser has a dedicated wooden spoon cycle. Interesting beastie the old Holtza, stands 10 ft tall, weighs 3/4 of a ton, can only clean one spoon at a time and leaves deep gouges in everything that comes out of it. I would get it seen to but the last chap who could service them was sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials. Can anyone offer advice?

[glenrobbo]

Just keep repeating:

"There is no future but that which we make for ourselves..."

[StanleyT]

wolfracesonic said:

eldar said:

I commend the following sycamore teaspoon. I do have concerns about death watch beetle.

https://www.takahashimcgil.com/product-page/spoon

I was going to rule myself out when I read not dishwasher safe, then I remembered my Holtzapffel maschinenfabrik spoon cleanser has a dedicated wooden spoon cycle. Interesting beastie the old Holtza, stands 10 ft tall, weighs 3/4 of a ton, can only clean one spoon at a time and leaves deep gouges in everything that comes out of it. I would get it seen to but the last chap who could service them was sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials. Can anyone offer advice?

Aww, no, I have just last week on Gumtree donated my old Holtza, had the same problem. The chap that picked it up off me said there should be a grub screw back top right that needs turning 90 degrees. Our milk at the time these were built has a higher lactic content so a slightly soapier cycle is required. Also have you checked that the polish teenager supplied with yours has been replaced. Our had an Irish immigrant in the 1970s, a series of YTS lads through the 1980 before the steering mechanism from a Morris Ital was used to fully mechanise the device.

[gazapc]

https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/1160681...

Such a shame it is likely to see youths these days turning to Spoon theft at such a young age. It starts of with standard school cutlery and by the time they are 20, they will be stealing high end spoons to order.

[Blib]

Disgraceful.

I blame everyone.

[ellroy]

The bigger mystery is since when have they had schools in Lancashire? And one's that can afford spoons to boot.

[55palfers]

Was anyone at the finals of the Solihull (Senior Section) Summer Spooning Stirathon yesterday?

It was a wonderful afternoon with one or two truly memorable performances by some of Solihull’s sturdy stalwarts.

I only ask, as on the way home, I noticed this mislaid workhorse in the gutter of Manor Road.
I think it’s a late ‘70s “Beverage Master” in Gloaming Grey with the retroussé bowl option.
A decent enough and economical beginner tool in its day, but I am sure it will be of immense sentimental value to its bereft custodian.

I took it home for safekeeping and have taken the liberty of giving it a light buff in an effort to remove the worst of the asphalt scarring.

Please PM me if you can help reunite this spoon with it’s (no doubt) worried keeper.

Thank you in advance.

[Tallow]

Have you tried contacting SpoonTrac (TM) to see if it's registered with them, Palfers?

[toastybase]

That belongs (or did belong) to one of the Horlicks brothers.

Their farther was a great man but the money has gone to their heads and dispose of spoons left right and centre.

I think I saw similar by Barry Horlicks. I was on my way home from Spoonage 1999 when he drove past and threw a spoon (Robert welsh) out his Bentley window. I heard him laughing and slurping Horlicks while Annie Lennox blasted out the window on full blast.

It tainted the weekend somewhat after seeing some of the most valuable spoons of the century at that show.

[SCEtoAUX]

I see ITV are repeating Spoonraker this evening. Just saying.

[wolfracesonic]

I happened to notice this in another thread on here; does the middle one look like a ‘50s Coetlagon to you or are my eyes playing tricks upon me? Annoyingly the bowl is out of view but I wonder if it is one they contracted out to Dassault, making use of their laminar flow research?

[Mark-C]

SCEtoAUX said:

I see ITV are repeating Spoonraker this evening. Just saying.

This whole 50th anniversary thing about the Spoonlanding is getting completely out of hand ...

[Mark-C]

wolfracesonic said:

I happened to notice this in another thread on here; does the middle one look like a ‘50s Coetlagon to you or are my eyes playing tricks upon me? Annoyingly the bowl is out of view but I wonder if it is one they contracted out to Dassault, making use of their laminar flow research?

I hope not ... the acidity in the onions will play havoc with the Coetlagon's plating and I don't believe anyone is able to reproduce that since Kurt Wildongen passed away in 2002 in the freak accident detailed in "A Man, A Spoon, A Dream" translated from the German into English by Britney Spears during her "lost" years.

[KP328]

Lately i have been working day and night in the laboratory creating the lightest weight metal known to mankind, i have named the metal Bunkum and the Teaspoon i whittled is made from pure Bunkum.

It's so lightweight just the thermal currents from a mug o tea cause the Teaspoon to rise.

[Blib]

That's impressive. How did you regulate return flange resonance in such a lightweight spoon without compromising on stiffness?

[mickk]

Found in Chiswick.

[KP328]

Blib said:

That's impressive. How did you regulate return flange resonance in such a lightweight spoon without compromising on stiffness?

Oh yes, like i'm just going to give away all my lab time trials and errors so you could patented my ideas?

I think not !

[Blib]

Worth a shot!