spoon a week

[Razorsharp1986]

I also found CS's Trail master in San Mai 3 a little too brittle. It does work good for skinning game i've found.

 

[seth]

thats a nice one mokes, i'll be joining you on that beer now !!

 

[Mokes]

thats a nice one mokes, i'll be joining you on that beer now !!

Thanks, lol! My wife wants me to sand it up and use it. I'm not sure if I can use an Ash spoon though. Maybe I need to seal it somehow? I actually think carving wood and woodworking in general would be a good hobby. I should try another spoon with my Buck 110.

 

[paleojoe]

You will find, scandi or convex grind will allow more attack angle than a flat ground for woodwork.

Cedar is a good wood to work with. Right now I am really enjoying walnut, but every wood has their own character!



Here's my contribution. It's a spoon I've had for four years.
It's made of cedar.

To make the bowl, I placed a hot coal on a flat area and used those wood straws to blow and concentrate the burn.
I used the mussel shell to scrape the bowl. Then sanded and olive-oiled.
I also carve out bowls. I find, if you know what you-re doing, they take about the same time. For me, burning the bowls go quickly, as I already got the fire going, might as well put a coal on a piece of wood!

That is my old utensil kit. Botchy stitch job, it was done in the field and held for some time. It has since been updated, but keeps the roll style. I like that style for alot of my tools...

In the past four years, this spoon has actually gone through three transformations. It was at one time a spork! This will probably be its last stage!

I haven't done any spoons this week but I have done these, as presents:
Hare, Beaver, Squirrel and Bird totems.... The squirrel and bird I did this week the others are older. The squirrel took me 2 1/2 hrs. start to finish (it was originally a different animal then changed) and the bird, 1.5 hrs.
Those are also modded handles I did for my Mora's... The sheath is a Sami-style I carved with my H1 out of birch.

I love carving these little totems. What can I say, I'm from Alaska!

 

[Joezilla]

Mokes, how many times did it bounce on the concrete?

 

[Gaurdian_A1]

I made this only with a red handled more knife...i soaked it in olive oil, then burned the outside with a torch , then wrapped the handle in hemp and added the leather lanyard...

 

[Gaurdian_A1]

ohh coommme onnn! there has got to be more people making damn spood out of wood..lets go! PICS PICS PICS

 

[Mokes]

Mokes, how many times did it bounce on the concrete?

Well....it was laying flat on the floor. The piece of wood must of smacked the blade when it tipped over and I looked over just in time to see the knife kinda log roll over about 1 1/2 times I would guess. At the most. I really didn't even think much of it until I picked it up to start cutting.

Cold Steel asked me to send it back for re-sharpening. I think I'll just buy a strop/sandpaper and learn to sharpen it myself. Never sharpened a convex edge before. No time like the present though.

 

[Mokes]

ohh coommme onnn! there has got to be more people making damn spood out of wood..lets go! PICS PICS PICS

I love this thread tbh. I was wondering....can you use any wood to make spoons? What is needed to make them safe for eating with? Can I just sand mine up and rub them with Mineral Oil?

I have Ash and Yellow Birch right now to use. I woke up this morning wanting to carve more, lol.

 

[Gaurdian_A1]

Use birch Mokes, if anything its nice to work with..treat it with either olive oil or canola/corn oil afterward...but gently warm the wooden spoon firt and it helps the oil to soak in.

Since wooden spoons are consumables, i dont know how long to expect one to last, but this is a great excersise to hone ones knife skills.

 

[Saunterer]

ohh coommme onnn! there has got to be more people making damn spood out of wood..lets go! PICS PICS PICS

Alright my first ever attempt. Here's one I made from apple wood from a apple tree a friend of mine cut down. I generally use it in my smoker, but this piece had a spoon hidden in it, and I all did was remove the unneeded pieces.

And another shot:

Sorry for the crappy webcam pics. I used a Buck Diamondback (#473) and a Victorinox Spirit (using the crate buster to hollow out the bowl). Finished off with a piece of 320 grit sandpaper.

 

[theedge13]

My humble offerings. About a month ago or so i tried a spoon and failed. This time success!

Only tool used: Mora 2K
sorry for crappy cell pic

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Probably not usable as it is carved from a piece of pine fence picket.

 

[paleojoe]

I love this thread tbh. I was wondering....can you use any wood to make spoons? What is needed to make them safe for eating with? Can I just sand mine up and rub them with Mineral Oil?

I have Ash and Yellow Birch right now to use. I woke up this morning wanting to carve more, lol.

I olive oil mine...
Mineral oil will work too, it is of a thinner viscosity than olive oil...

The birch would make a nice spoon!

A trick or two to use to start out the bowl:

-some people like to carve the circumference with the blade tip in the center, at lowest spot of the bowl. Only the type of carving blade can determine the depth. The depth is the essential part....

-another is similar, you cut the circumference, but then lengthwise strips, and then shave out the strips, working with the grain...

-another trick is to point/tip drill at the center of the desired bowl area and then shave the walls wider until you have your desired shape...

-another is to coal burn. In my above post (with the url's, sorry!) I have done my spoon that way. Coal burning works better for certain woods. Cedar works well.


Sand (if you wish, not necessary, I find less instance of splintering, cracking) and then oil....


Good luck!!!!

 

[Nathan Gould]

There are two reasons to carve spoons, number one, in order to eat something and number two in order to have a go at carving them.

For eating i tend to find that a sort of spatula tends to be much better and easier than any spoon i can make in the time it takes for me to cook my breakfast.

I've made a few spoons and there's a couple of things which people often do wrong but can be easily remedied:

Don't make it too thick
Don't make it too deep
Don't make it too big
Don't make it out of poisonous wood! birch is nice, as is sycamore
Make sure your tools are SHARP a blunt spoon knife is no use whatsoever and makes it much more likely that you'll cut yourself. For some good info on spoon carving chek out del stubbs at pinewood forge

 

[paleojoe]

Pinewood Forge makes some real beauties!:thumbup:

 

[C_Kyle]

I used a chunk of White Ash I grabbed from the woodpile.

Dude, you didn't learn from me about not using hard ass dry wood? That's a good first attempt, especially with that wood and that large knife.

 

[TreeChopper]

Pinewood Forge makes some real beauties!:thumbup:

+1 If I didn't have mine I think my spoons would be spoontulas.... not much bowl.

 

[TreeChopper]

Here is my first spoon... it's quite small. Freestyle apple spoonin'. No lines were drawn.. I just carved.

I started one in dry cherry..... I have calloused hands from weightlifting and I STILL got blisters from carving that thing. I started another in fresh birch and it checked on the end of the bowl. I love the harder woods even though they bust my hands.

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[seth]

being sunday, i decided to get ahead with this weeks entry, found a nice piece of easy to carve driftwood on a hike and decided hey, how about a spoon that i can actually fit in my mouth this time !!! these are the results.. i think i need a knife with a bit more belly near the point though, might make the bowl easier to hollow out.

 

[hushnel]

I'm going to take some sand paper to this, it's carved out of curly Mahogany. I'll post some better pictures once it's sanded and oiled, maybe tomorrow. I problably cheated I used my carving jack.