How To Carve Love Spoons

Carving a love spoon.

How to carve love spoons. Beginners love spoon carving top ten tips. This is The Lovespoon Workshop guide for any beginner love spoon carver. Step 4 Scoop Out the Inside of the Spoon.

The Lovespoon Workshop is located in the centre of the small hamlet of Cold Inn. Carving love spoons is a Welsh tradition that goes back to the 1500s. Pick a hardwood such as walnut cherry or maple for the most durability.

It is pale in colour and will darken upon exposure to light to a mid tone mellow brown. It is relatively soft for a hardwood and very close and even grained making it ideal for. Blanks are wooden blocks that you can cut and carve your spoons from.

I drew the pattern for the Spoon on paper and then when the cut out was made it was transferred to a plastic sheet making the pattern long wearing and worth a lifetime of carving. Description CARVING SPOONS 2ND EDITION Spoon carving instructor Shirley Adler will get you started making beautiful spoons to keep for yourself of give away. Hence the phrase spooning.

Welsh sailors spending many long and lonely hours at sea used the time to carve spoons for the girl that they had left at home. One of the most important things to consider before you start is to choose a suitable piece of wood. Another option is a tool called the bent-bladed knife.

How to Carve a Spoon Out of Wood. Welsh love spoons gouges. Directions to The Lovespoon Workshop.