Wharehapuku is a craft gallery and studio at Poranui Beach in Te Mata Hapuku (Birdling’s Flat). They have found our timber stocks to be a useful source of wood that is well-suited to carving. Wharehapuku also runs a whittling workshop where you can create your own beautiful kitchen utensil using ‘the fine craft of carving wood with knives’:
Website: https://www.wharehapuku.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wharehapuku.gallery/
Photos:
1) Lazy Chef utensils carved out of Musgrove’s Rimu.
2) The half-made spoons are Musgrove’s Cedar and Rimu used in the whittling workshop, with our Kahikatea also now being used because it’s great for beginners to carving.
3) The wide piece of wood with 11 spoons on it is Wharehapuku’s Big Mouth design, made mostly of Musgrove’s wood, besides the driftwood on the left and the 2 on the right.
