August 2019. I found a nice big coconut, well shaped, as well as a similar one a size down. They're posing on a coconut frond mat from Guanica PR.
To drink from a glass I have crafted, to eat from a coconut shell bowl I have shaped with my hands noting the similarity between the vascular nutrient channels on the inner surface and the similar channels within our own skulls plus of course the coconut’s eyes and mouth.... setting it all on a coconut frond mat I wove in Guanica... it’s all a delightful union of whatever I am with the entire universe. My asking price for these products is a smile a handshake a hug
to show me you get it too.
to show me you get it too.
January 2, 2019:
Recent modifications in coconut shell bowl technique:
1. To drain the coconut water, I no longer use a hammer to tap holes in each of the three eyes. Instead, I probe each of the eyes with the gutterspike nail, and when I find a soft eye, I poke the gutterspike nail through it. This way.... not using a hammer.... I have way better luck at avoiding circumferential fracture of the shell that shows up that day or a few days later.
2. Sanding off the coir: I've started also to sand off the fibrous coir with my belt sander, as in the three bowls below.... for a more finished look.
In some weird way, my collection of coconut shell bowls are like my children. I touch them. I enjoy eating my breakfast cereal out of them. I rotate them around, a visit with one child one day, another child another day. Crazy, I know!
Recent modifications in coconut shell bowl technique:
1. To drain the coconut water, I no longer use a hammer to tap holes in each of the three eyes. Instead, I probe each of the eyes with the gutterspike nail, and when I find a soft eye, I poke the gutterspike nail through it. This way.... not using a hammer.... I have way better luck at avoiding circumferential fracture of the shell that shows up that day or a few days later.
2. Sanding off the coir: I've started also to sand off the fibrous coir with my belt sander, as in the three bowls below.... for a more finished look.
In some weird way, my collection of coconut shell bowls are like my children. I touch them. I enjoy eating my breakfast cereal out of them. I rotate them around, a visit with one child one day, another child another day. Crazy, I know!
A surprisingly utilitarian bowl crafted from the coconut shell. I confess that I eat my breakfast cereal every morning from a coconut shell bowl. It ties me to the natural world if not the entire universe. I made it. I use it. I kept it from going to waste!
