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I'm envious of you guys with your spoon knives.. I've been slashing with my knife, then rounding with a rock.
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Y'all and your spoons! (CONTEST INSIDE)
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Sweet thread... not sure what woods I have around, but I'll surely be looking...
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I'm in! I made this out of Sassafras wood. This is also my first spoon and some of my only woodcarving. Thanks for the contest!
I had to significantly shorten the spoon length due to a large ugly knot (on the back of the branch in the previous picture). I thought maybe I could incorporate it somehow, but I was wrong.
Getting there...apparently I did this backwards relative to how most people carve spoons.
Final shape! The ones of the rough carved bowl all came out fuzzy, sadly. I was using an old wood carving tool and some of the knotty wood as a lightweight mallet.
Sanding with some fairly coarse emery cloth.
All nice and smooth after 400 grit sandpaper. The tool on the bottom was used to carve out the bowl.
Ta-da! I used mineral oil so it'll be food safe if I can bring myself to eat with it.
And some glamour shots:
The Sassafras is very chatoyant and holding it as different angles appears to change the color.
I had to significantly shorten the spoon length due to a large ugly knot (on the back of the branch in the previous picture). I thought maybe I could incorporate it somehow, but I was wrong.
Getting there...apparently I did this backwards relative to how most people carve spoons.
Final shape! The ones of the rough carved bowl all came out fuzzy, sadly. I was using an old wood carving tool and some of the knotty wood as a lightweight mallet.
Sanding with some fairly coarse emery cloth.
All nice and smooth after 400 grit sandpaper. The tool on the bottom was used to carve out the bowl.
Ta-da! I used mineral oil so it'll be food safe if I can bring myself to eat with it.
And some glamour shots:
The Sassafras is very chatoyant and holding it as different angles appears to change the color.
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Ok. Took me some time with the photos but the spoon is here. I hope that I did all by the rules. It really was fun.
Splitting a piece of dry wood
Oops. Username, Date
Working setup.
Cutting, carving.
Finishing.
Product
Splitting a piece of dry wood
Oops. Username, Date
Working setup.
Cutting, carving.
Finishing.
Product
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MY HAT! YOU HAVE MY HAT! GIVE THAT BACK!Ok. Took me some time with the photos but the spoon is here. I hope that I did all by the rules. It really was fun.
Working setup.
I lost my Columbia Roc Booney at Myrtle Beach 2 years ago and have been searching for a replacement ever since. I haven't been able to find one anywhere! It's hilarious to see someone else has (and uses) one.
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It really is Columbia! Did your hat swam or at least floated?? It must have been in the ocean for some time becouse I am on the other side ... and than there is Mediterranean and than Adriatic Sea
No seriously. It is a great canvas hat and is with me for at lest five years now. I remember there was tons of those in different colours when I bought it in one of outdoor equipment stores nearby. If only I had bought two
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I don't think you grasp how much I mourned the loss of that hat. Wear yours with pride, you are right you should have purchased dozens. I know I wish I had. Columbia laughed at me when I asked them where I could buy another 
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A rather poor quality glamor shot, but it had to be done.
There are some incredible spoons in this thread! If I have the time I'll probably make one for the contest.
Here's a picture of the last spoon I finished. Carved out of a block of cherry with the two tools in the picture (A custom made for me by BHK and a Del Stubbs hook knife). I finished it with some sandpaper and BLO.
Here's a picture of the last spoon I finished. Carved out of a block of cherry with the two tools in the picture (A custom made for me by BHK and a Del Stubbs hook knife). I finished it with some sandpaper and BLO.
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Well I never whittled a spoon before, but this thread and all the cool spoons made me want to try!
So here is my first attempt....
Started out with some mystery wood from my back yard, I have no idea what it is, but it's pretty hard and I decided to use a living branch because I was hoping it would be easier to carve. Pic includes the knives I used...
Used my Browning Comp knife to chop the branch and start roughing out the shape ....soon found out that most of it was rotted through, so I ended up with a smaller peice than I had planned on...
Used my Fallkniven NL5 and SAK to shape it some more... and DANG IT! the live wood decided to to split all over the place, leaving some big ugly cracks! ...oh well, decided to keep going anyway...
I don't have any specialized carving tools, so for the bowl of the spoon I just started digging in with the sturdy tip of the Fallkniven, then used the small blade of the SAK to shave out the insides. Then I got out the sandpaper...
Well here it is finished up with some Beeswax (and a little filler in the cracks)
This was fun, and I think I learned a few things along the way.
Think I might try it again soon. :thumbup:
So here is my first attempt....
Started out with some mystery wood from my back yard, I have no idea what it is, but it's pretty hard and I decided to use a living branch because I was hoping it would be easier to carve. Pic includes the knives I used...
Used my Browning Comp knife to chop the branch and start roughing out the shape ....soon found out that most of it was rotted through, so I ended up with a smaller peice than I had planned on...
Used my Fallkniven NL5 and SAK to shape it some more... and DANG IT! the live wood decided to to split all over the place, leaving some big ugly cracks! ...oh well, decided to keep going anyway...
I don't have any specialized carving tools, so for the bowl of the spoon I just started digging in with the sturdy tip of the Fallkniven, then used the small blade of the SAK to shave out the insides. Then I got out the sandpaper...
Well here it is finished up with some Beeswax (and a little filler in the cracks)
This was fun, and I think I learned a few things along the way.
Think I might try it again soon. :thumbup:
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That looks like a very usable spoon:thumbup: I ran into a similar problem with the practice spoon I made, but it was the heart wood that got me, once it dried up it left a nice hole in the spoon. For the one I made for the contest I used a much bigger piece of wood, from a tree I had to cut down in the yard, so I was able to get below the heart wood.
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Did it on my spare time (lunch time and after working hours)
Actually this spoon is my second one.The first one, i guess already decomposed years ago in the middle of Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park (Sumatra).
Tools: sandpapers (80, 220), SAK Firemen, Cody's carver O1, Zoe Christ's light chopper 1095
material: spalted she-oak a.k.a ironwood a.k.a beefwood (Casuarina junghuhniana, Bornean species) a very hard timberwood, usually for furniture. Got the branch fallen in front of my office
sawed by SAK
Zoe's light chopper working
Starting the bowl by Cody's carver O1
Finished up with linseed oil
a simple carving on the handle
So sorry for the pics quality, shoot it use cellphone
Enjoy
Actually this spoon is my second one.The first one, i guess already decomposed years ago in the middle of Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park (Sumatra).
Tools: sandpapers (80, 220), SAK Firemen, Cody's carver O1, Zoe Christ's light chopper 1095
material: spalted she-oak a.k.a ironwood a.k.a beefwood (Casuarina junghuhniana, Bornean species) a very hard timberwood, usually for furniture. Got the branch fallen in front of my office
sawed by SAK
Zoe's light chopper working
Starting the bowl by Cody's carver O1
Finished up with linseed oil
a simple carving on the handle
So sorry for the pics quality, shoot it use cellphone
Enjoy
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Nautralist all I see is the big red x, anyone else see the pics?
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Hemmm, i have no idea, its work on me.
I can see the pics..
Anyone have similar problem with Ridge-Runner? advice please
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All right this is my first spoon from a branch. I have attempted to hollow out 3 spoon blank b-4 with varying degrees of success. I bought the spoon carving beginners set from Pinewood Forge about 8 months ago and between the kids and the job just aint had a lot of free time to mess with it. But this contest kinda kicked me in the pants a lil and gave me a reason to carve one out. So here we go.
The Starting point. We had a huge ice storm about Feb sometime and it broke the top out of every tree above 2400 feet. This poor lil birch was one of them so I figured I could chew on the shaving and enjoy the smell while carving it so I picked it.
So here it is with the tools and the gear of the day.
Back home and getting ready to get started.
Well I was going to split the branch right wher it parted from the main trunk of the tree like you can see in the other pics, but when I attempted to do so I realized just how hard that was going to be so I got lucky and the branch had a natural nock in it.
Here is the finished product b-4 mineral oil and sanding
Here it is as good as it is going to get. Going to cook some spaghetti with it tonite and I will post pics of it in use.
I tried to intial it but I dont think it turned out so well.
Well that is my spoon. Its a lil crooked but that actually fits the hand really well its just not asthetically pleasing. I put a date stamp on the finished photo but it is not showing up for some reason. If it does not show up soon. I will come up with something else.
The Starting point. We had a huge ice storm about Feb sometime and it broke the top out of every tree above 2400 feet. This poor lil birch was one of them so I figured I could chew on the shaving and enjoy the smell while carving it so I picked it.
So here it is with the tools and the gear of the day.
Back home and getting ready to get started.
Well I was going to split the branch right wher it parted from the main trunk of the tree like you can see in the other pics, but when I attempted to do so I realized just how hard that was going to be so I got lucky and the branch had a natural nock in it.
Here is the finished product b-4 mineral oil and sanding
Here it is as good as it is going to get. Going to cook some spaghetti with it tonite and I will post pics of it in use.
I tried to intial it but I dont think it turned out so well.
Well that is my spoon. Its a lil crooked but that actually fits the hand really well its just not asthetically pleasing. I put a date stamp on the finished photo but it is not showing up for some reason. If it does not show up soon. I will come up with something else.
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I don't see anything at all.
ditto
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I don't see anything at all.
re-upload pics from photobucket, hope went well