How To Carve A Welsh Love Spoon

Hence the phrase spooning.

How to carve a welsh love spoon. I then marked the diameter of the ball on the other three sides but whilst doing that I found myself wondering whether or not the ball Id drawn was the right diameter. A piece of fine sandpaper is then used to. Note that for me even missing elements hold meaning.

Welsh love spoons gouges. In the spoon in the photo I followed the stain with three coats of lacquer. Cwtch means cuddle in Welsh my favorite Welsh word of all time and the heart is made out of Welsh slate.

An alternative explanation is that young men carved these spoons during the winter months to pass time but it is not yet clear when the tradition begun. All you need are a few small scraps of wood and some common carving tools. The open link chain and ball in cage carving are often found in Welsh Love Spoons.

This one is more appropriate for the love of my life. A demonstration of hand carving a Welsh love spoon by Dai lovespoons Thomas at The Lovespoon Workshop. Another option is a tool called the bent-bladed knife.

I promised the full story of the love spoon so here it is. Although I have over 100 different chisels I tend to usually only use about 15. They probably did it to pass the time as they sailed long distances.

They are a selection of different sized gauges three straight flat ones and half a dozen carving knives. They were carved by hand with little more than a. Keen to own your own Welsh love spoon or visit the Thomas Family Lovespoon Workshop.