How Do You Carve Wooden Spoons
This is for oiling your wooden spoon when youre done carving.
How do you carve wooden spoons. Although I do use a traditional sloyd knife and hook knife to carve some smaller spoons from dry wood I find that lap-carving methods are often less than ideal when working dry wood. With the spoon gouge begin to carve away in the center of the spoon. There are many ways to carve a wooden spoon the method this Blog is focused on is greenwood carving using only hand tools.
Types of wood for Spoon Carving. Start with a coarse grit sandpaper and progressively work your way through finer and finger grits until you reach the desired level of smoothness. To carve a spoon we start with a branch or a section of a log that has been recently cut-off.
Start sanding your spoon with coarse-grit sandpaper. I would coat the spoon with that then Id put it in the microwave for 5 to 10 maybe 15 seconds on high until the spoon was really warm. Linseed oil and a clean rag.
- Pencil- Patience- SandpaperMusic. This can make a dry spoon-blank much easier to carve somewhat approaching the ease of carving green wood. I suggest not carving too deep right away a spoon doesnt need to be very deep if you plan on just using it as a stirring spoon.
He subscribes to the notion that the spoon is already present in the wood and the maker is just bringing it out. It is recommended that you start at one end of the bowl from the centerline and work your way to the other end by cutting the wood with shallow cuts. Carve till you hit harder wood then put it back into the bucket to soak more the.
Tools used in the video- Wetterlings Axe- Helle knife. - Mora spoon knife hook knife. Apply a food safe finish and enjoy.
