How To Whittle A Spoon Out Of Wood
Begin chiseling on either the left or right side of the handle by holding the chisel at a slight angle to the wood and pushing it into the wood taking care to follow the grain.
How to whittle a spoon out of wood. A curved card scraper makes short work of smoothing out the bowl. Step 1 Wood Roughout. Keep removing material digging out wood closer and closer to the outer wall of your spoon.
Wooden spoons should be. How to Carve a Spoon Out of Wood. A sharp knife is a whittlers best friend.
On to the concave side of the spoon - use a rounded sweep gouge or hook knife to start removing material from the face of the spoon. Use coarse sandpaper at first gradually moving to finegrited sanding. Step 4 Scoop Out the Inside of the Spoon.
Butcher block olive peanut or vegetable oil. Well this week I will show you everything you need to get started. Sand your spoon to 220-grit then apply a nontoxic oil finish eg.
You will start off cutting into the wood between a 90 degree and 45 degree angle then as you are pushing into the wood rotate the knife so that it returns to 0 degrees and on the same plain as the wood as shown in the picture above. A dull one just wont do if you want to whittle. Step 3 Round the Bottom of the Spoon.
It needs to be 10-15 cm longer than the spoon you want to make. Down below well discuss some of the most commonly used types of woods for whittling. To cut out the outline you might want to use a band saw scroll saw or jig saw.
