How To Turn A Wooden Spoon On A Lathe
I like to make spoons also but I do it with the lathe.
How to turn a wooden spoon on a lathe. This is a small turning blank but you can bring the tailstock up if you want to. First get a stick of firewood out of the pile and mount it in the lathe. This will let you shape the handle of the spoon and then part it off of the lathe.
Spoons spoons spoons everybody is getting into carving spoons. Sand the spoon bowl at this time as the centers will be lost when the blanks are split apart. Like carving out table legs he then began cutting away the excess wood.
Attach a faceplate to the blank using screws. Just made it up as I went along. When you start to turn the off centered end the cuts should start to show very soon.
Hillhouses spoons or scoops began their life as a composite block of wood which were offset on his lathe to get that unique pattern. 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. In this months issue of The Highland Woodturner Phil Colson demonstrates how he turns wooden spoons on his lathe an interesting alternative to carving.
How To Make A Wooden Spoon On The Lathe Woodturning Project - YouTube. This is a very different spoon than I have ever made before. With the lathe off I used a fine tooth hand saw to cut the in-progress cedar spoon off the lathe and my waste pieces.
Turning the Wooden Handle Mount the wood on your lathe and in your multi-jawed chuck. Part some of the wood away from the jaws of the chuck. One end is mounted off center.
