How To Carve A Green Wood Spoon
Justin shares his obvious skill and enthusiasm for this work as he.
How to carve a green wood spoon. Here we see green woodworking expert Justin Sanford demonstrate traditional spoon carving. Soaking birch spoon blanks. Spoon carving is an art as old as stone tools.
Sandpaper is seen as cheating but for the non-purists it may be. You can cut a section of wood and then freeze it to help contain the moisture and greenness. If playback doesnt begin shortly try restarting.
Use a spokeshave to round over the edges of the facets. The Green Wood Way - YouTube. This modal can be closed by pressing the Escape key or activating the close button.
This can make a dry spoon-blank much easier to carve somewhat approaching the ease of carving green wood. Axe work A basic kit for green spoon carving is a chopping block a saw an axe or hatchet a straight knife and a bent knife. Start each cut at one side of the bowl and follow the edge of the stock up to the center.
As you use and wash your spoon occasionally re-oil it. Use a drawknife or handsaw to shape three large chamfers two on each side and one on the end. Green wood just means that it still has moisture in it that it was freshly cut.
After a few strokes on one side move to the. Ive never been able to call a spoon finished without sanding especially the bowl of the spoon. However rarely is this piece useable because normally the bend is caused by a knot as in the above pics.