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spoon a week

I just finished it.

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Yep, curly mahogany, I was looking through the wood pile at Ace Hardware/Shell Lumber for some quarter sawn mahogany for building ukulele and banjo necks and came across this curly piece 10" by 8' by 3/4". So far I've gotten three necks out of it and some miscellaneous stuff like the spoon. I still have four feet of it.

I would love to carve a rifle stock out of this stuff, I may go back and look at the 2" and 4" stuff.

This neck was partially pieced together, I was using up some of the larger scraps. This ukulele I made with a Chinese Bottle Gourd. :)

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Wow, there are some very nice spoons in here.

My hook knife just arrived from Ragweed Forge, so expect another spoon from me in a few days.
 
seth said:
i thought id give it a try today, spoon making isnt as easy as it looks !!! but this is as far as i got, using only these 2 blades. wood is mahogany, fairly easy to carve because of how dry it is, wondering if pine would be easier


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That would make a good coucou spoon. ;)
 
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Mokes said:
So I tried copying Cristobal and carved out a spoon using a San Mai Trailmaster I was given as a gift yesterday. I used a chunk of White Ash I grabbed from the woodpile.

2 things happened.

This happened when a small chunk of wood fell over and hit the side of my blade and flipped the knife over on my garage floor. :rolleyes: Not so impressed with the brittleness of the blade tbh. Just e-mailed CS to see what they say. I sent the pic to them. Seems scary to think of trusting this blade in the woods around rocks and all. Blade would be destroyed in an hour with me, lol.
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I guess the new SK-5 steel isn't as good as Carbon V.

What's that...a pint of IPA in the last pic? :D
 
A couple more... apple which I posted earlier... buckthorn spoon/spear thing with thumbrest... buckthorn..... and birch. I think I'm almost ready to try a kuksa. :D

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I like those. I just split a piece of Australian Pine and roughed it out this weekend. It's a little green still. I had cut a couple of new tent poles about a month or so back and this was a part of one that I left at my Australian Pine source "o)
 
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