Spoon!

[macmiddlebrooks]

Hello WSS, this is my first post in this subforum....greetings from Richmond,VA!
I got inspired by you guys to carve my first spoon. I tried to ID the leaf via the google and the closest thing I could find was red maple,(can anyone confirm this?).

I used my brand-spanking-new Andrews bushcrafter as well as a Todd Rexford resonance for the bowl and finer bits.

While it was a lot of fun, it became fairly obvious that my spoon was not going to be very functional, so I decided to turn it into more of a "sculpture" and give it to my Father as one of his Christmas gifts

Both knives (esp. the Andrews) worked really well.
Feet are wine corks attached with a little gorilla glue and a small brass screw.
Entire thing covered in multiple coats of amber shellac.
Thanks for looking. Oh yeah...almost forgot, the little balls in the bowl are acorns!

 

[Ferrousknight]

Looks like a sweet gum leaf. Can you get any pictures of the tree itself, maybe seeds from it if possible, bark texture, etc.

 

[stealthchaser13]

why wouldn't that spoon be usable? just it would make a better cooking spoon/ladle than an eating spoon. But as long as you cut it off that large chunk of wood, it would be a perfectly viable spoon.

 

[Mistwalker]

why wouldn't that spoon be usable? just it would make a better cooking spoon/ladle than an eating spoon. But as long as you cut it off that large chunk of wood, it would be a perfectly viable spoon.

I was thinking the smae thing. Looks like a good ladel to me...maybe a little more out of the bowl.

I've always liked the shape of Brian's Bushcrafters, nice looking knife.