How To Carve Your Own Wooden Spoon
Author Lee H Arten explains how he taught himself how to make his first wooden spoon a gift for his wife-to-be.
How to carve your own wooden spoon. He subscribes to the notion that the spoon is already present in the wood and the maker is just bringing it out. Sourcing wood and things to consider. How to get the best spoon from wood.
Held in Toowoomba the workshop covers. Use a straightedge or ruler to create the long handle part. How To Carve A Wooden Spoon.
Concepts of spoon design. With your pencil draw a spoon shape on your piece of wood then cut the shape out with a band saw. Proper lines will help keep your spoon handle straight and strong.
Learn how to carve your own wooden spoon using traditional techniques and your own hands by attending this small group one day workshop led by your tutor Matt Eliason AKA Spoonguy who has over 30800 hours experience in spoon carving. Nov 22 2013 - This Pin was discovered by Chrissie Panarese. Sourcing wood and things to consider.
This will create a shelf which will in turn prevent the wrong bits of your spoon from breaking when you use the axe. Artens tone is encouraging and matter-of-fact making the prospect of carving a wooden spoon seem very reachable. There are many ways to carve a wooden spoon the method this Blog is focused on is greenwood carving using only hand tools.
Draw a circle or an egg-shape inside the rounded part of your spoon so it almost reaches the edges of the outline. You can slowly move on to medium and fine grit once you are done with the coarse grit. Then use the miter saw to cut the chunk of wood to length at the ends of your spoon outline.