12K views · 95 reactions | Spotting a golden hued maple tree? Forester Chip drops ID knowledge like a November leaf  (Don't adjust your screens; this video shows the tree's summer foliage ) | Iowa Department of Natural Resources | Facebook

This is a branch of a Norway Maple tree; Acer Platanoides. It’s rather hard wood and makes lovely spoons. It was particularly favoured by Viking cultures in Northern Europe and lots of woodwork from Medieval Novgorod was Norway Maple. Here I’m cutting the section of the branch that will give a nice angled crook spoon; it’s a lot more work than cutting a spoon from straight grained wood but it gives nice results and the grain is strong at all the parts of the spoon that need strength. I rough the

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