Y'all and your spoons! (CONTEST INSIDE)

My next door neighbor is a master woodworker and he uses baby oil exclusively. It is absorbed by the wood and protects it. You let it dry for a day or so. You don't taste it.
 
well, my spoon isnt very good, but i gave it a try today
i used my home made knife "my very first try at a knife"
and some coals from the fire to help with the bowl, a bit of sand paper and min oil
i will definetly give this another try some day soon, as it was alot of fun

the starting peice
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finished
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cheers
mike
 
Should I close this tonight, or wait until Sunday to give you procrastinators one last weekend?
 
After taking another look at all the submitted spoons, I say Sunday as well...I hope we can see more spoons :thumbup:
 
Here is my second spoon. Last one was a year ago and on green wood. I used some dried Walnut out of my yard, definitely made a difference verses the green wood. I used a Vic Farmer and JK Ky Woodsman for all the carving. Wanted to try a coal for the bowl but there is a burn ban on here now. I tried to think of a way to make it serve more than one purpose so I added a notch to use as a lid or pot lifter. It needs a coat of oil, but I don't have any yet.

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I love that tiny spoon. Love it so much I decided to make an itty bitty one with my BK-2. To be fair, I was actually using the BK-2 to make an impromptu bow rack for my Howard Hill longbow this morning out in the deer woods and an extra scrap of limb kept calling to me.

Here's what I got...

Here are the raw materials. Mostly I wanted forked stakes for a bow rack.
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Here's the bow rack in action.
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There's a tiny spoon hiding in that stick - I can hear it calling to me.
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I was smarter this time. Left a temporary handle on it so I could work the bowl a bit more easily.
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There's the spoon roughed out - now to remove the temporary handle.
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The finished product rests in my hat band (which is on my hat, on my bow, on my new bow rack, etc.).
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By the way, I did see one deer today, but he was a young fork-horn who would have been safe from my arrow even if he had been in range.
 
This is a cool contest. I used some birch from the basement to make a spoon, my wife asked me why? I told her it seemed like the thing to do at the time. It was cool, actually turned out well, I used an srk blade that I rehandled, an opinel, a nicholson 4-in-hand file (great little file BTW) and sandpaper. I want a crook knife now, lol. Sorry no pics, I'm not smart enough to figure it out and don't want to bother the wife.
 
For the people that use just a knife (not a crook knife or other tool), how do you hollow out your bowl?

I normally drill, then pry or carve out pieces with the tip, but the bowls often don't turn out quite as nicely as some of the ones I've seen here....
 
HikingMano said:
For the people that use just a knife (not a crook knife or other tool), how do you hollow out your bowl?

I normally drill, then pry or carve out pieces with the tip, but the bowls often don't turn out quite as nicely as some of the ones I've seen here....
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I did this spoon with the tip of a knife. What I did was I started by slicing a V with the grain and slowly moved it out to the edge following the contour of the bowl. Once I had it wide and deep enough I switched to cutting across the grain and slowly worked it to its near final shape. I just took little slices off at a time so I could round things as I went and then sanded smooth. I was lent a crook knife after that and I went back and dug a little deeper to get a consistent thickness in the bottom of the bowl.

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Well I finished my first spoon last night, its not bad but I can do better. I went with box elder because I have never carved anything before and I wanted something easy to carve. I didn't look at any of the how to's on spoon carving and I guess I did it backwards because the bowl of the spoon was the last bit I did. No breakage it looks like a spoon and works for now. Unfortunately I didn't think about the heart wood and that is slowly but surly disappearing. I am going to make another for the contest but this is what I did on a first attempt.
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Notice the recessed leather wrap for positive non slip grip:p

This is not my entry, I just wanted to show the other newbies that it can be done.
My entry will be done with nicer wood, I am going to Tea stain it and finish with tung oil/beeswax so it will be food safe but have some depth and color. Look for that one next week.
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I should mention that I was using a small knife that I made that has a lot of belly at the tip so that made it easy to only cut where I wanted to.
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