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Carving in Canada with Brett Andrews
Jan 04, 2026 1h 7m

Carving in Canada with Brett Andrews

In this episode, I’m joined by Brett Andrews @bigbear_woodshack a Canadian greenwood carver and turner. Brett discovered wood carving in 2019 and has been hooked ever since.Alongside spoon carving,...

Climbing and Carving Trees with Jonathan Jekic
Nov 17, 2025 1h 6m

Climbing and Carving Trees with Jonathan Jekic

In this episode, I talk to Jonathan Jakic (@jonathan_jekic), a passionate, creative, and prolific maker from Germany.Jonathan is an arborist and discovered his passion for carving greenwood through...

Mountain Feral Craft with Callan Burton-Shore
Apr 16, 2025 54 min

Mountain Feral Craft with Callan Burton-Shore

In this episode, I chat with Callan Burton-Shore @mountainferalcraft, an ancestral skills teacher living near Asheville, North Carolina.Callan was first introduced to carving and other craft skills...

From Log to Spoon with Alex Finberg
Feb 20, 2025 1h 19m

From Log to Spoon with Alex Finberg

In this episode, I talk to Alex Finberg @lex.finberg (https://www.instagram.com/alex.finberg/), a passionate, creative, and prolific maker from Devon, UK.Alex’s work involves introducing various cr...

Talking to tool maker Adam Ashworth
Jan 28, 2025 1h 19m

Talking to tool maker Adam Ashworth

In this episode, I talk with Adam Ashworth @adamashworth97, a tool maker from the UK. Adam first discovered greenwood carving and later connected with established toolmakers Nic Westermann and Jame...

Crafted with passion by Nadav Ben Shlomo
Dec 24, 2024 1h 11m

Crafted with passion by Nadav Ben Shlomo

In this episode, I talk with Nadav Ben Shlomo @nbs_artnwood, an artist originally from Israel who now lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic.Nadav creates beautiful and playful pieces from local...

Carving in Cornwall with Felix Lane
Dec 17, 2024 1h 6m

Carving in Cornwall with Felix Lane

In this episode, I talk to Felix Lane @felix_the_wood, a young and talented greenwood carver from Cornwall, UK. Felix carved his first spoon at the age of 11 and has been honing his craft...

Wellbeing in Woodworking with Samuel Alexander
Feb 23, 2024 1h 3m

Wellbeing in Woodworking with Samuel Alexander

 In this episode, I speak with @SamuelAlexandershapes. Samuel talks about how he initially came to carving through seeking help dealing with depression. Something clicked, and it has since bec...

Spoons, Snails, and Community with Oren Hetzroni
Jan 22, 2024 1h 12m

Spoons, Snails, and Community with Oren Hetzroni

In this episode, I talk with Oren Hetzroni (@hetzronio), a product designer and Spoon carver from Israel.After studying design, Oren initially started woodturning before he discovered the work of R...

Songs and Spoons with Tamsin Quin
Jan 11, 2024 1h 2m

Songs and Spoons with Tamsin Quin

In this episode, I talked to Tamsin Quin (@quinwoodcraft)  a talented musician and self taught spoon carver from the UK. Tamsin spoke of instantly being hooked and resonating deeply with carvi...

Spoon chat with Nick Murphy
Sep 30, 2023 1h 4m

Spoon chat with Nick Murphy

In this episode I talk with Nick Murphy ( @murphys_spoon ) an educator, musician and spoon carver from the UK. We spoke about how Nick discovered spoon carving,  why he continues it to this da...

Illustrator and spoon carver Lee John Phillips
Apr 12, 2023 1h 18m

Illustrator and spoon carver Lee John Phillips

In this episode, I talked to Lee John Phillips (@leejohnhillips), an award-winning illustrator and talented spoon carver. We talk about how Lee started, why he decided not to sell his spoons, AI, s...

Tallking Spoons with Tad Kepley
Mar 03, 2023 1h 26m

Tallking Spoons with Tad Kepley

In this episode, I talk to @tad_william_kepley, a passionate spoon carver from Lexington, North Carolina.Ted started carving spoons after his retirement from law-enforcement in 2015 and was hooked ...

Wood craft entrepreneurship with Rebecca Luerssen
Nov 17, 2022 1h 4m

Wood craft entrepreneurship with Rebecca Luerssen

In this episode I talk to Rebecca Luerssen (@rebecca_luerssen). Rebecca lives in Hixson , Tennessee and started carving spoons in 2017. From the start Rebecca felt like carving and creating was som...

It all started with a spoon with John Wager
Oct 28, 2022 1h 50m

It all started with a spoon with John Wager

In this episode I talk to John Wager (@johnswoodenware), an Anishinaabe craftsman from Buckhorn Ontario, Canada. We talked about how John got started with carving and how to it has connected him to...

Down the rabbit hole with Georg Schulte
Oct 10, 2022 1h 10m

Down the rabbit hole with Georg Schulte

This episode is with Georg Schulte (@schorsch555), a goldsmith, jeweler and spoon carver from Münster, Germany.We spoke about Georg’s work as a Jeweler and teaching the unique method of Mokume Gane...

Von Hand with Raleigh and Oliver Klotzek
Apr 21, 2022 1h 20m

Von Hand with Raleigh and Oliver Klotzek

On episode 17 my guests are Raleigh (@morganraleigh.c) and Oliver Klotzek (@oliverklotzek), two full-time makers that have a wide variety of experience working with Greenwood and other natural mate...

Carving and kolrossing with Liesl Chatman
Feb 15, 2022 1h 35m

Carving and kolrossing with Liesl Chatman

On episode 16 my guest is Liesl Chatman (@rivichicawarroir). Liesl lives in Minneapolis and teaches spoon carving and kolrossing at North House Folk School.It I was really fun to get to know Liesl ...

Slöjd in Sweden with John Beya
Jan 28, 2022 1h 24m

Slöjd in Sweden with John Beya

On episode 15 my guest is John Beya @johns_slojd. John was born and grew up in Sweden where Sloyd was part of life. He lives there today with his family. John carves beautiful spoons and kuksa amon...

Stones and Wood with Jan Leuschner
Dec 08, 2021 1h 21m

Stones and Wood with Jan Leuschner

On episode 14 my guest is Jan Leuschner (@Jan_Leuschner). We talked about his experience working with various materials at school and his time learning and working as a stone mason.Jan now carves b...