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1. india | March 31st, 2009 at 5:38 am

   Hi Heather,

   I noticed that you didn’t write an ice-cream scoop in quite a long time and that you loved brands which gave out free ice-cream. As Ben & Jerry’s free scoop day is approaching with the summertime, I was wondering if you wanted to write a post about the very new flavour of Ben&Jerry’s – ChocoMac (chocolate and Macadamia nut).

   Furthermore, Geoff Wannacot, from Dorchester Dorset. who is an expert in miniature carving has carved a Ben and a Jerry, a tub, an ice cream cone and a cow with the Macadamia Nuts in celebrating of Ben & Jerry’s new Fair Trade Chocolate Macadamia flavour! Geoff spent a total of 38 hours creating all five sculptures in celebration of the new flavour which are just half an inch high, the Ben and Jerry’s heads were the most complex and each took around 10 hours for Geoff to carve.

   I have 5 great pics with very high reolution if you want to illustrate the blog . below is a quote from Geoff himself about his carvings and work.

   “‘I’ve been making minute carvings for years but never whittled with nuts before. At first the failure rate was high with pre-dried nuts, which had been slowly dried for weeks so I switched to moist nuts which proved more stable to work with. The difficult bit was thinking of a way to overcome the natural crack in the macadamia nut which kept splitting the nut in two, eventually I figured out that if I split it, dried it and glued it back into position it was ready to start carving into. The Ben & Jerry figures were the most difficult. The outline silhouette was marked and sawn with a jeweller’s saw before carving the fine detail, using scalpel and small jeweller’s files. The ice cream cone had to be adapted with a hand holding it, as the cone was too fragile without it. The ice cream tubs and the cone were mounted and turned on a lathe before the final carving.”

   For the moment it is still brand new so I thought it would be of interest to you and your readers. Get bqck to me and please let me know if you need anymore information,

   Best
   India.