How To Cut Wooden Spoon
Using a jigsaw to cut out the pattern.
How to cut wooden spoon. The wood you dont use right away you can leave it some high grass. Your bench knife or coping saw work wonderfully on thin woods that are under 34 thick and soft woods as basswood. Cut out the end of your spoon 12.
There are many ways to carve a wooden spoon the method this Blog is focused on is greenwood carving using only hand tools. This is a crucial step and I would recommend doing it the night before you plan on starting any project or at least the morning you plan on starting. I used a store-bought spoon and used it to trace out the pattern I wanted.
Use a power carver with a rounded gouge to carve out the bowl of the spoon. Start by carving the inside of the spoon the bowl. Thats a very good wood for spoonmaking.
And on one half of the paper draw half a spoon and then cut it out grabbing the other half of the sheet. Cut out the outline of the spoon. The first step in constructing your wooden spoon is choosing the size and species of the wood.
This is done on an 8mm chisel. To cut out the outline you might want to use a band saw scroll saw or jig saw. It needs to be 10-15 cm longer than the spoon you want to make.
You need some technique to cut out the curved part with a bandsaw so be creative about the edges. When you hollow out the bowl of the spoon take your time. Once your spoon is sanded flip your spoon over so its right-side up.