Wood Carving Spoon

Easy to make wooden spoon.

Wood carving spoon. This is a condensed project from the art of spoon carving by lora s. Sign up to spoon club membership for the entire library covering every aspect of spoon carving and a. The next step of this spoon carving process is to work on the handle. Hand carved wooden spatula.

Irish twelve step by step projects 57 unique spoon patterns and lots of photos. Well i hope you enjoyed this article and hopefully it helps give you some additional information on wood selection for carving a spoon. See how he creates his elegantly simple designs from start to finish in an online video. This spoon carving tool kit is composed of a solid knife to do the rough job of preparing the piece of wood for further processing a detail knife with a thin tip of a blade to carve out the shape and details of your project and a spoon knife to finally form the hollows and trenches.

One of the beautiful things about spoon carving is that you can start with a very basic kit of tools. Pro tip carving with the grain is more important if your spoon handle has some elegant curvature at the end. Mora 162 hook knife. While it s possible to carve virtually any type of wood given the right tools and techniques some are easier than others to learn.

Carving a wooden spoon or spatula is a fun woodworking hobby that results in a functional piece of art. I have since made hundreds of spoons and spatulas in many sizes from two foot long stirring spoons to two inch tasting spoons. Mora 106 straight knife. This is when you can relax a bit and start taking off big chunks of wood.

The most important thing to first consider when carving a spoon is the type of wood that you re going to use. My suggestion is to start simple with these two knives. How to carve a wooden serving tray. The design and style possibilities of spoons and other kitchen utensils are endless allowing you to be very creative.

A wooden spatula on the lathe. Previous posts in this spoon carving series the art of spoon carving discover why i carve spoons. Spoon fork and ladle styles for wood carving traditional spoon styles and shapes. No talking just carving.

Windsor chairmaker peter galbert blows off steam by picking up a carving knife and whittling spoons. Eventually i found out that traditional wooden spoons are lap carved from green wood but i was already well on my way to developing a method that worked well in dry hard woods. How to make a cedar spoon. Barn the spoon carves a saddle topped spoon from start to finish.

All you need is an axe a sloyd knife and a hook knife.