My First Spoon

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I'll admit that for the longest time I didn't get the fascination with wooden spoons. It seemed like every time anyone got out to the bush that they felt compelled to resolve the nagging lack of cutlery as if their life depended on it.

I think I get it now. It isn't about the spoon, it's about the knife and the hand and the brain and the wood. So here it is, my very first spoon.

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I don't own any hook knives so I did this one with my re-handled Mora #1 and some sandpaper. Poplar finished with Grapeseed oil.

Mac
 
That spoon looks GREAT!!! That is most possibly the finest handmade spoon that I have ever seen. And Im not kidding, that looks awesome.

Great job!!
 
Pict,

Very nice work my friend! I think you have inspired me to go at it next weekend on the camping trip!

Excellent work!!!!

45W
 
Wow. I would give anything for the patience to make such things. I have the skill. Skill is easy. I have zero patience.
 
Now thats a spoon!

Beats the crap out of my 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th spoons. And I haven't even made the 6th yet!
 
I'm glad you guys like it. I'm happy with the way it turned out, kind of surprised actually.

I don't know enough about it to make a full blown tutorial. I'm not about to carve one spoon and then start teaching!

The only thing I did that struck me as novel was that I carved the bowl first about 1/3 down the length of the material to allow myself a hand hold on both ends. That allowed me to hold it either way with the bowl always above my hand and the knife working upwards and away from it. I only did the exterior cuts of the spoon once I had a deep depression of the bowl already carved out.

I think the frustrating part is that it seems most people start by roughing out a spoon shape with a handle and knob of wood on the end and then try to hollow the knob. I just started with a hollow in a triangular slab of Poplar and then made a spoon shape around it. If you leave enough wood on both ends of the hollow you can hold it either way. Anyway, that's what I did.
Mac
 
Mac,

Nice spoon. Have you tried a kuksa yet (based on your spoon, I think you should)?
 
John G said:
Dang. That's your first? You makme feel bad about my spoons. Well done.
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Haha, no kidding right?

pict said:
The only thing I did that struck me as novel was that I carved the bowl first about 1/3 down the length of the material to allow myself a hand hold on both ends. That allowed me to hold it either way with the bowl always above my hand and the knife working upwards and away from it. I only did the exterior cuts of the spoon once I had a deep depression of the bowl already carved out.
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That is what I discovered too :thumbup:, especially when only using a regular knife. It's so much harder and dangerous, for me anyway, to carve the entire spoon out first, and then hollow out the bowl.
 
Wow sweet spoon Mac! That definitely blew mine out of the water. Great job on the bowl without a hook knife.
 
DAMN...fantastic work!!! I just bought a hook knife and I don't even think with the "right" tools I could get my first to look like that.

Awesome job....makes me want to go start mine.

Craig
 
Talfuchre said:
Please tell me you used a curved knife too!

TF
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No, I would have, but I don't own one. If you notice the bottom of the spoon is fairly flat. I drilled a hole and kept making it wider and deeper. I used the Mora to carve around the inside and had to score and chip out the bottom. I then used sandpaper to sand that area smooth. A hook knife would have been much easier. Mac
 
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