How To Carve A Welsh Love Spoon

Sailors would spend time at sea making these for their intended sweethearts who was hopefully waiting patien tly for them on a far away shore.

How to carve a welsh love spoon. Shirley provides step-by-step instructions for shaping the bowl and adding detail to the handle. Welsh love spoons gouges. Through our channel we share a wide variety of techniques and methods for anyone wanting to.

I started by squaring the outside of the cage and transferring the aperture opening to the other three sides. Giving you a basic idea of how we make a love spoon. Some believe the tradition begun with sailors that were in long sea voyages far away from loved ones.

Here is an example of one of the full gifts that we sent with the Welsh love spoon as well as one extra ornament we picked out. Note that for me even missing elements hold meaning. Carving love spoons is a Welsh tradition that goes back to the 1500s.

The number of children he was hoping she would give him. Worked from one piece of wood the open link chain is used to connect the different design pieces. A wide variety of FREE resources to help you make your own lovespoons and learn wood carving and spoon carving are available.

The lacquer coats dry in about fifteen to thirty minutes. A lock indicates security andor I will forever look after you As is common in many different romantic items the heart indicates love. In this episode I show you how I tackled the caged ball section of the Welsh Love Spoon.

Dec 16 2020 - A collection of carved wooden love spoons. All you need are a few small scraps of wood and some common carving tools. The open link chain and ball in cage carving are often found in Welsh Love Spoons.