Spoon carving with the Work Hawk

[Park Swan]

Today I carved some spoons using my Work Hawk. I'm not the greatest spoon carver anyway, but my goal was to see how far I could go with just the tomahawk, starting from a piece of firewood. This is an Osage orange spoon which turned out ok except for the horrific inside of the bowl. A more skilled carver could have done better with the hawk there I'm sure. I'll probably clean it up with a gouge and I'll post the finished spoon then.

I also made a real boring video of me roughing a spoon from some beautiful cherry, the camera died before reaching the end. I may finish that spoon up tomorrow and I'll post some pictures if I do. It's a challenge to not go in and grab my gouges, knives, or hook knife, but a lot of fun.

[video]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t_azdm96nVg[/video]

Let me know what you think!

 

[Old Axeman]

I think it looks damn good for a spoon that was carved with only a hatchet !

 

[garry3]

Osage is not the easiest wood to carve either. Even green.:thumbup:

 

[Agent_H]

Let me know what you think!

Never made a spoon but I think that looks very impressive.

Great thing to create.

I think using tools is different than owning them.

 

[Park Swan]

Thanks for the compliments! Finished it up today - to be fair, I use this gouge every day so it felt like cheating from that point on. I find that gouges for me are much more controllable than a hook knife on wood that is anything but the greenest.

 

[rjdankert]

Today I carved some spoons using my Work Hawk. . .

I've done a few spoons, but not with a hatchet. That would be a real challenge for me.

Well done. :thumbup:

. . .I also made a real boring video of me roughing a spoon . . .

I didn't find it boring at all. Hope you finish it. It would be neat to see how you hollow out the bowl.

Thanks for posting.

Bob

 

[shortwinger]

Nice hawk and great job showing it work efficiently on the video.