How To Make A Wood Spoon On A Lathe
Cut out the outline of the spoon.
How to make a wood spoon on a lathe. Step 3 Cut the spoon out on the bandsaw. This gives a very symmetrical round handle and outside of the bowl of the spoon. Next I took a marker and drew a line freehand halfway along the length of the bead.
Cutting board oil also works Tools-Wood lathe-Band saw-Belt sander or other electric sander its possible to get away with just hand-sanding but your hands may fall off in the process-Dremel with several drum-sanding bits for carving out the bowl of the spoon. I like to make spoons also but I do it with the lathe. If you dont have a bandsaw you could do this with a.
If playback doesnt begin. How to Create a Wooden Spoon using HAND TOOLS. Mark a pattern of a spoon on a board.
Draw a rough outline of the desire spoon on a piece of wood. Once the shape of the spoons was created it was then time to refine the design into the actual utensils. Step 2 Trace the spoon pattern onto the wood with a pencil or marker.
Next I go to the lathe and put it between centers and turn it down into a round handle and spoon. I use a five or six quarter stock 1-14 or 1-12 inch and draw the spoon on the wood with a magic marker. How To Make A Wooden Spoon On The Lathe Woodturning Project - YouTube.
The spoons are marked out using a template prepared for the project and cut on the band saw. The first bandsaw cut is down the middle of the slab so as to make ballancing each cut easier and to check for grain changes. Once the basic form was achieved he then used a band saw to cut the leg in half and chucked using a special clamp each half back into the lathe to mill away the excess wood.
