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July 19, 2000 

STOCKHOLM (AP) - Three local handicraftsmen in a southern Swedish village have scooped out a place in the record books by making the world's biggest wooden ladle.

Representatives from the Guinness Book of Records measured the ladle over the weekend and found that it beat the old record of 1996, also set in Sweden, of 200 centimeters (6 feet, 7 inches) in length and 20 centimeters (8 inches) in width, Johan Rosell of Guinness Sweden said Tuesday.

It took the three residents of the village of Gullabo, 310 kilometers (195 miles) south of the capital, Stockholm, a year to carve the 464-centimeter (15 feet, 3 inch) long and 107-centimeter (3 and a half foot) wide ladle out of a 5.5 ton oak log.

The ladle was shown over the weekend for the first time at the annual Gullabo woodwork fair in the province of Smaaland, a popular tourist destination that is known for its crafts, fair organizer Markus Johansson said.