Daniel Worcester is a spoon carver based out of his wood pile in Wells, Maine. His wife and two sons helped name the one person spoon hobby, 3 Beavers Utensil Company. He’s been carving with only an axe and knives for almost ten years in the traditional “sloyd” or Northern European fresh greenwood manner. His favorite wood is locally sourced white birch, with apple, cherry, and alder coming in a close second.
Dan was raised on a wild blueberry farm in the Downeast town of Columbia just a mile from one of the largest raised bogs in the world, the Great Heath on the Pleasant River. Dan still spends most off is days off at his family camp just four miles from where he grew up. Much of the greenwood he uses comes from the family property around the meadows and overgrown blueberry barrens.
After earning is Bachelor’s degree in Art from the University of Maine at Orono he spent almost seven years in a Marine Corps rifle company as a mortar man. Dan went back to the military after several years of “broken time” as a member of the Maine Air National Guard from where he recently retired.
After having been all over the world through personal and military travel, Dan is still in love with his home state where his family has been since the mid 1600s. When not spoon carving he enjoys spending time in the quiet autumn boreal forest or on the winter mud flats digging clams.
The last thing he wants folks to know, is that the spoons he carves are meant to be used. The highest honor is to see one of his old spoons burned, chewed, stained, and beaten. Use them and use them hard.
