Wood spoon making

[DxAxN]

Not Sure if this wood be considered bush craft, but decided to give carving a wooden spoon a try. For a first try I was happy with it.

 

[Nullity]

That looks great.
Sanding/smoothing it out really transformed it.

Hmm... that reminds me, it's lunch time.

 

[clayton c]

That looks really great ! Did you hog out the dish area with your knife ? Looks better than mine.

 

[DxAxN]

I tried dishing it out with the knife... but it just wasnt going my way... so I ran over to home depot and picked this up.

 

[sicily02]

Great looking spoon. Different tools make the process easyer than just a knife, but the key is to get a spoon made and yours looks great.

So are you going to use it for eating with?

Bryan

 

[DxAxN]

I will probably try eating with it at least once

 

[losvedese]

Hi, you've done a very good job! How long did it take? What wood have you used?

 

[DxAxN]

It probably took me about 8 hours over a few days, Im not sure what kind of wood it was, I think it was from a peppercorn tree.

 

[losvedese]

It probably took me about 8 hours over a few days, Im not sure what kind of wood it was, I think it was from a peppercorn tree.

Thanks.

 

[ISKski]

Hey man, Don't mean to hijack your thread, great spoon.

Here is the last one I made, first time I used the traditional method of burning out the bowl portion of the spoon.

First I split a branch using the rocks you can see sitting around it, that was the first time i'd split wood using only naturally available materials..

Then I just rough carved out the shape of my spoon.

I made myself a little space to sit my coal in so that it wouldn't slide around all over the place.

Then, once you've established where you want the bowl to be, start burnin!
You take a nice red hot coal from a fire, simply place it on top of where you want to burn out your hole and gently start blowing on the coal.

and just keep going until its your desired depth

foolishly, I never took a picture of the finished spoon lol but it looks like the second picture with a deeper hole and more finished handle

 

[Shotgun]

Nice work. I've noticed that knives with some belly do a good job at carving the bowl. In fact the Izula 2 with the scales taken off is my favorite for that kind of work and carving in general.

 

[losvedese]

Hey man, Don't mean to hijack your thread, great spoon.

Here is the last one I made, first time I used the traditional method of burning out the bowl portion of the spoon.

First I split a branch using the rocks you can see sitting around it, that was the first time i'd split wood using only naturally available materials..

Then I just rough carved out the shape of my spoon.

I made myself a little space to sit my coal in so that it wouldn't slide around all over the place.

Then, once you've established where you want the bowl to be, start burnin!
You take a nice red hot coal from a fire, simply place it on top of where you want to burn out your hole and gently start blowing on the coal.

and just keep going until its your desired depth

foolishly, I never took a picture of the finished spoon lol but it looks like the second picture with a deeper hole and more finished handle

You did a good job too. Interesting approach with the fire.

 

[venmm73]

Great first spoon ! I know its not a post your first spoon thread, so i hope you dont mind . This is my second spoon really i gave the first away as a gift. Im not sure of the wood. I used my little 3" scandi and spoon knife to make this one. Did you treat your spoon when done? I used bees wax and mineral oil mixture but it does not last long. I was thinking a butcher block stain. Just curious.

 

[DxAxN]

I plan on doing another one using the burn method.

I havent coated it yet, but that is the plan

 

[TLR]

I make a new one each year when I instruct at a week of camp with middle schoolers. We actually try to get all of them to make one. We teach them to use the coal method to make the bowl portion as it's much safer then trying to do it with a knife or something else improvised.

 

[TLR]

A cup is the real challenge. I always get impatient and end up cracking the bowl by getting it to hot. That and I keep trying to make one the size of a Steiner

 

[DxAxN]

Yeah a cup sounds like it would be pretty tough... I should probably give a bowl a try first