How To Carve Welsh Love Spoons

Giving you a basic idea of how we make a love spoon.

How to carve welsh love spoons. Keen to own your own Welsh love spoon or visit the Thomas Family Lovespoon Workshop. This Welsh love spoon with its love heart and celtic knotwork symbolises eternal love. The open link chain and ball in cage carving are often found in Welsh Love Spoons.

This is followed by a paste wax to bring out some luster in the wood. To carve the spoon bowl a curved gouge is selected usually from various sizes and with the use of a mallet chips away at the wood with the grain. In this BCD People Are Culture video meet father and son Kerry and Dave Thomas who share the history and techniques of the 17th-century Welsh tradition of designing and hand carving Welsh love spoons.

Like the crosses that I have designed and made each spoon or knot is a wonderful vehicle that celebrates how we are woven into a beautiful design. In this episode I show you how I tackled the caged ball section of the Welsh Love Spoon. Hence the phrase spooning.

Welsh Love Spoons Celtic Knots And Contemporary FavoritesShirley Adler know how to manage the tasks on time and wish to have Carving Spoons. Another option is a tool called the bent-bladed knife. Worked from one piece of wood the open link chain is used to connect the different design pieces.

Here we see green woodworking expert Justin Sanford demonstrate traditional spoon carving. Lightly sand between the coats with the 150 grit sandpaper. Caged balls indicated the number of children hoped for.

FREE videos include step by step tutorials for making lovespoons simple techniques to help with designing and methods for keeping your tools sharp. However the writing agency has found a perfect solution for the issue that has been bothering the students in. This evolved into carving individual Celtic Knots.