How To Carve Wooden Spoons
Best Tools For Spoon Carving.
How to carve wooden spoons. Sand down those edges. Do not let them soak for a long time in water and never put them in the dishwasher which will cause the wood to deteriorate quickly. Tools Required for this project.
After that dries I give the surface a light sanding to remove all the wood grain that has risen either with 600 grit wetdry sandpaper you can even do a wet sanding with the oil to really finish it off nicely or with 0000 synthetic steel wool. The best wood for spoons is hard but if it is also hard to handle it makes it a wrong candidate for beginners. There are many ways to carve a wooden spoon the method this Blog is focused on is greenwood carving using only hand tools.
In this video I use a round chisel band saw and a rasp. Butcher block olive peanut or vegetable oil. Rounding off the corners.
Sand your spoon to 220-grit then apply a nontoxic oil finish eg. In this episode I go through the possible finis. Author Lee H Arten explains how he taught himself how to make his first wooden spoon a gift for his wife-to-be.
Part 4 in a 4 part series focusing o the full process of carving a wooden spoon from log to finished product. Finish sanding polishing and giving it a final polish. Step 3 Round the Bottom of the Spoon.
Finally I burn the spoon with a propane to. Sandpaper of various grit size 320 180 and 120 grit. Step 2 Shape the Handle and Back of Spoon.