Make your own izakaya-grade chopsticks with Hamidashimono www.spoon-tamago.com

For more than 100 years, a town in Nara Prefecture has been using leftover, high-quality cypres wood from the home construction process to create disposable chopsticks.
But even in this process there are leftovers: slices of wood called hamidashimono that were simply collected and burned.
So a team of designers worked with local craftspeople to upcycle these leftovers to create an izakaya-grade DIY chopsptick set.
Every Hamidashimono is collected, stored and dried as if it were a regular pair of izakaya-grade chopsticks.
Whittling a single pair of chopsticks good enough for eating takes about fifteen minutes — and is the ideal pre-dinner activity over good conversation and a glass of sake.