Fire and Spoon making

Hi all,

Iboschi, Thanks. Yea the 2nd one turned out smoother. The 2nd one is bigger than the first. either way one to stir the pit and one to eat from will work lol. Just go slow with the carving and It really helps to not cut more off from the spoon area. I did my third one today and left more on to hande the carving

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It really is easyer to carve with when there in more wood to hold onto where you are carving the spoon out.

The first on took me about 2 hours or so and the 2nd one took me just about 2 hours. This third one that is out of Birch took me 1.15 hours roughly. I then did about 10 minutes of hand rubbing with some 80 grit snad paper and in this pic you can see it really is smoother and bigger too.

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I am working my way up to a bowl lol. I want to make up a cup to after I make my bowl maybe next week.

Ivan 51 will do. I hope to be back to making knives in Jan.

Ken, thanks. Yea we are having pretty nice weather for fall. Not to cold yet.

Anyways Like I said if you leave more wood up where you want to carve the spoon out at it really helps with control of the curved knife. I also am learning more ways to hold and carve with the cruved knife so it is really getting easyer to work with.


Thanks again for all the kind commments:D

Bryan
 
I've only made a couple of spoons & recently got a mora hook knife, so I'll try that when I get some time. I actually picked up a cheap leather apron too after seeing a pic of the chunk a guy took out of his calf while carving with one of these sitting cross-legged.

FWIW:
I was doing some internet searching to see how other folks carve spoons and I came across a guy on youtube - seanmulhall of silverfox bushcraft (link http://www.youtube.com/user/seanmulhall#p/search/1/g6QP-wVZTzE). He suggests leaving a length the same as the handle on both sides of the bowl until you have the bowl carved out. Pretty much the same as you show in the post above. He says it allows you to make the same cuts from both sides, so you're using the same motion. Both safer and better looking results, I guess. I really like his vids. Informative and interesting, imo.


Anyway, great work on the spoons, Bryan. Nice to see you out there using your blades & I really dig that Kep.
 
Chopchop, Thanks, I can see why a person sitting crossleggeg might carve into there leg. I am not much for sitting cross legged, but getting a peace of leather sounds like a good idea though. At my campsite / timber area (depending one which one I am at) I have a log or even my logg chair that I made to sit on. Being up off my tush made carving them spoons better. at one point I was sitting on the ground in the kneeling postion and I did not stay that way for long before I was back to sitting on my log.

Thanks for the link I will check that out:D.

Bryan
 
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