WINNER ANNOUNCED!!!!CONTEST! A teaspoon of bushcraft makes the machete go down..

[shotgunner11]

Yea, sorry Mist, that entry is disqualified, can't look better than mine.....

 

[Mistwalker]

Yea, sorry Mist, that entry is disqualified, can't look better than mine.....

Eh...you might have gotten carried away a bit on the burning but considering the length of the blade you were using and for a first time I thought you did pretty damn good bro.

Lol, I knew it would be...wasn't done with just a machete. Besides I wouldn't use the same material for multiple contests anyway...what would be the fun in that?

 

[killstew]

after the pumpkin contest not going the way I envisioned I almost afraid in this contest I may lose a hand or an arm.

 

[jsdvnc]

after the pumpkin contest not going the way I envisioned I almost afraid in this contest I may lose a hand or an arm.

I've already lost a chunk of skin to this contest.

 

[trix2004]

here is my spoon-fork , i did at night after work so every time to take a pic I had to go inside . all was done with my Evil Junglas .

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bonus pic ,as you see it works just fine , and no, its not me in the pic.

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[SemperParatus]

Very nice!

I'll try to get in on this with my el cheapo general store machete.

 

[Mistwalker]

here is my spoon-fork , i did at night after work so every time to take a pic I had to go inside . all was done with my Evil Junglas .

bonus pic ,as you see it works just fine , and no, its not me in the pic.

That spoon/fork is awesome! Really well done using a knife that big.

And that is one wicked picture!!!

 

[Joe Fowler]

Um, Trix wins.

 

[StoneColdChuckTX]

I've never done this before, especially with a full-size machete, so it was educational. Used an 18 inch Ontario Knife Co machete which is probably 30 years old at least. I built a Texas sized spoon with a prybar at the end out of mesquite. It ain't pretty but you can put the smack down with it. I call it the Hostile Environment Survival Spoon.

 

[rodloos]

I've never carved a wooden spoon with a knife before, let alone with a machete, so this took me QUITE a bit of time to do.

I have a number of machetes I could have used, from 12" up to 22" (and just received my new Junglas this week after I had already started) but I decided to use my Lite Machete to keep it truer to the nature of the contest:

I had a branch that needed to be trimmed off my tree anway, so down it came:

I used a section of the branch to start carving; in retrospect, I started with WAY too big of a piece, so had to remove a LOT of wood.

I purposely chose a piece that had a bit of an "elbow" to it before where I wanted the spoon end to be. I didn't think about the elbow having a big knot and the wood being pretty hard to carve there.

I used the tip of the machete to "drill" out a bit of a recess, before using a coal to help it along.

After spending a LOT of time burning, and scraping away the burnt wood, I managed to get the spoon hollowed out a bit.

I kept a hone handy to keep touching up the edge on the machete; it made a pretty good plane for smoothing out the handle.
OOPS! Managed to slide my hand along the blade a bit, getting a little cut to go along with the burns from attempting to hollow out the bowl of the spoon .

All in all, not too bad for my first wooden spoon, although it is heavy enough to be a club also . At least the handle came out pretty smooth.

I hope I don't get counted off for the sheer amount of time it took me to carve it . Although I was tempted to use my Junglas after it came in the mail, I stuck with using the Lite Machete.

 

[SemperParatus]

This went a lot better than expected for my first spoon. I made a big one, which I'm sure made it easier though.

The wood I chose

Getting into shape

I was shaving down the handle and bit a littler deeper than intended, but that gave me an idea for a handle on it.

Finished! No blood lost, but my arms and hands are sore.

 

[Mrbladedude]

bonus pic ,as you see it works just fine , and no, its not me in the pic.

Then who was it in the pic

 

[trix2004]

Then who was it in the pic

If I win , I will post full photo of her

 

[basb]

If I win , I will post full photo of her

That aint very fair

Keep it up

 

[Joezilla]

I'm in

 

[infantrylife]

If I win , I will post full photo of her

Uh, you win. Contest closed.

BTW nice work though!

 

[SemperParatus]

pick a winner yet? It's been two weeks.

 

[lilknifekid]

I think trix wins.

 

[rodloos]

I think trix wins.

Now waitaminute! The contest was to carve a spoon with a machete, so no default winner just for having a wife/girlfriend in the picture!

 

[trix2004]

soooo.. who ???
I think I just gonna post photo any way .