Welsh 'Love' Spoon

scruffuk

scruffuk

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Well it was Valentines day and all, and the missus had eyed up a simple wee spoon I'd carved and carry in my brew kit when out for a bimble, so I thought I would make her one....but a bit more twee lovey dovey :rolleyes:

I've not tried this style before....and not really carved owt for a while, but here's what I came up with:

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Its Birch finished with a good few applications of Camelia oil. She was pretty made up too!
And I was relieved I'd gone to the effort as she had made me a massive jar of cookies, including spiced rum flavour and Woodstock decorated ones *nom nom*
 
I appreciate the comments folks.

It was an interesting experiment in sharps for carving.
Here are the tools I used:
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Firstly, the wee spoon that got it all started.
Roselli Long Axe for roughing.
Frost's Spoon gouge - I used this for not only the bowl and heart indent. But also to 'bore' out the center section, working from both sides....kinda like melon balling my way through.
I then used my Roselli UHC Carpenter, handled by yours truly.
Made a bit of a boob working on the dip in the heart so called it a day, I'd spent about three hours carving.

Day two I chose to use my Fiddleback Forge Small Nessmuk.
I have to say, I enjoyed carving with the Nessie more. It did all the detailed/finer work. And I found the extra blade length and width (not thickness) far more advantageous.
It was surprisingly more efficient than the dedicated carving blade.

I wrapped the spoon up with a piece of material, using abo4ster's Bush Cloth/furishiki tutorial.
Cheers for that amigo!

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In all it took about five to six hours.
The Birch I think is White Birch. Easy to work and there's plenty of it about here.

Thanks again y'all.
 
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You my friend have some serious talent! Beautiful work and I bet she loved it.
 
Very nice carving Scruff! I find I like spoon carving more than I thought I would. I've never tried anything so intricate with knives and such, I need to get a crook knife and give something like that I go, I really like how that turned out.
 
Thanks folks.

I realise I should have taken a snap from the backside too.

You should give it a try, its relatively easy and really helps you undertand your knife, control of the edge and its sharpness well.
Plus, it makes something useful!

If you do an image search for love spoons though, you will realise this is really very simple in comparison to some of the designs.
 
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