Carving spoons

Carving spoons from wood is a great hobby that allows you to create unique utensils that you can use in your own home. Once you cut out the basic shape, all you have to is whittle away any excess wood.

In this very cool, yet simple w. Carving along the shaft or handle of the spoon is the easiest place to practice. Start by taking small strokes, removing small amounts of material, and carving away from yourself.

An example is carving down from the top of your bowl to the edge of your spoon. A counter example is starting at the edge of your spoon and carving upward to the top of your bowl. Carving against the grain will cause tear outs which will RUIN your spoon. So make sure to always carve downwards no matter how awkward it might feel.

I’ve been carving spoons again lately, after a long hiatus. It came about mostly from shop-cleaning. These are years ol as dry as a bone.

To make spoons from them, I took a couple different steps than I do when using green wood.

Master the art of spoon carving from anywhere, at any time! Your spoon size may vary to suit your personal preferences. Soaking birch spoon blanks: this can make a dry spoon-blank much easier to carve, somewhat approaching the ease of carving green wood.

Water absorbs much quicker through the end of the fibers, so soak a spoon for a day or two in a plastic bucket, shoe-box sized tubs work great (any iron will react with the wood). Full Site Coming Soon.

We use them every day and often have our favourites, maybe because of the way the spoon feels in our han the way it looks or it’s simply perfect for the task at hand. I’m going to show you how to make your own spoon using a mini­mal amount of equipment.

Carving gouges (also can be called a wood carving hook knife) are the carving tools that have a curved blade. Spoons are a necessity. Gouges are specially created for bowl carving or carving any other objects by making hollows in the pieces of wood.

They are also the tools for carving wooden spoons. Then it needs so specialized carving tools. This art needs skillful hands. But carving spoons is not an ordinary job.

Besides skill, it requires perfect woods to cut the wood piece into a beautiful spoon. For me, the wood is the perfect level of hardness for spoon carving.

Easy to shape with hand tools, but tough enough to stand up to use in the kitchen.

It has a Janka hardness of 000N. The Janka hardness test measures the force required to embed an 11.

I’ve recently been getting into spoon carving and wanted to know the best wood for making kitchen spoons. So, I did a little research on the topic and here’s what I found. Generally, you need to choose hardwoods with a fine grain and not very porous.

The spoon carving I learned from Jögge Sundqvist, his father, Wille Sund­qvist, and Drew Langsner is part of a Swedish tradition, the revival of which was really spearheaded by Wille. My first attempts were thick and clunky. One nice thing about spoons is that you get another chance to get it right in just a couple of hours or less.

See more ideas about Carved spoons, Wood spoon, Wooden spoons. Carving tools: carving knife and spoon gouges (which can be purchased at Lee Valley). Sandpaper of various grit size (32 18 and 1grit). Small rag and food-safe oil.

For me, spoons are to carving what chairs are to furniture. At their best, both are three dimensional, functional sculptures. Their forms can be infinitely varie but are subject to the disciplines imposed by successful use.

It is recognised as a free form style of carving as there is really no limit to the design and form style of carving. Wood carving spoons has become an art form more than anything and with the amount of modifying features wood carving allows its no wonder why people start with carving spoons.

I suspect it has something to do with my carving process (I take a relaxed approach and carve over the course of 7-days) Any ideas?