My First Spoon

[kgd]

Looks great pict. Now seven more and you'll have a set - that is exactly the thing my wife would say

 

[Bige610]

i wish i could figure out how to make a spoon without a curved knife. im having a hard time

 

[eomeo]

Damn fine work there!

 

[the possum]

I'll admit that for the longest time I didn't get the fascination with wooden spoons.
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.

Exactly!!!

It's about the skill, patience, and tools necessary to shape wood at will. Spoon, dolls, boats, whatever you want to carve. As long as it's 3 dimensional, with areas that are concave, convex, flat, with some tight inside corners and broader ones, it will let you practice skill & see where your equipment may also be best suited. For example, it's very difficult to carve the bowl of a spoon with something like a wharncliffe or hawkbill blade. But the broad sweeping curve & almost 90* point of a spey blade works pretty good at it. Where as the spey blade has trouble carving a box shaped depression with sharp inside corners.

 

[m]

Amazing! and thanks for the great tips.

 

[milani74]

To say "very well done" is an understatement. I am on my 3rd or 4th spoon and am just now getting sort of passable spoons.
I 100% agree though; the allure is all about the challenge of doing it and the satisfaction that you created something out of a stick.