Reskor - Sea scar Bowl

18 cm × 6 cm

Turned from Cornish beech while the wood was still green, this small vessel was left to dry at its own pace, letting the rim settle into a gentle, tidal wave. As it moved, a single, wide crack opened along one side. Rather than reject the piece, the scar was honoured: a panel of recycled sheet-copper was shaped to fit and secured with a bright copper boat-nail, peened over a matching rove in the old shipwright’s way.

The exterior is finished in layered coats of deep sea-green milk paint, then sealed with food-safe oil and Cornish beeswax. The colour pools in the grain, hints of copper glinting at the mend like light on wet stone. Inside, the surface is left smooth and honest, ready for salt, spices, keepsakes—or simply for quiet looking.

The name Reskor comes from the Cornish verb reskori: “to restore.”
It speaks to the bowl’s story—wood that cracked, copper that healed it, and a new form that carries both wound and remedy side by side.

One of a kind, shaped by hand, by the slow breathing of the timber, and by the patient work of repair. A small masterpiece, made to be held, to be used, and to remind us that mending, too, is craft.