How To Carve A Celtic Love Spoon

For most of my spoons I use Lime aka basswood.

How to carve a celtic love spoon. Love Spoons have been handcarved in wood to be given as gifts for centuries in Wales and the tradition is now spreading around the globe as people look for a truly special way of celebrating a Wedding Anniversary Engagement Birthday or just to say Thanks. Supplies Needed for Spoon Carving. Regardless of your skills and background even if you have never used a wood carving tool before we have videos to help you develop the skill required for wood carving and lovespoon carving.

I love learning to carve. The spoon is normally decorated with symbols of love and was intended to reflect the skill of the carver. This video was sponsored by Squarespace.

It includes the pattern for the design that you can print out and apply to your own blank. Our love will grow Horse Shoe. Step 4 Scoop Out the Inside of the Spoon.

They love each other a shared love Celtic Knot. Good luck and good fortune. Step 6 Sand and Finish Your Spoon.

Welsh love spoons gouges. This is just one step toward learning something newFor this I mostly just use a small bench chisel but I also have an exacto a c. This is followed by a paste wax to bring out some luster in the wood.

BC Series 6 BeaverCraft Blog We offer you to learn to carve a traditional Celtic lovespoon in 20 steps - perfect for beginners. A lovespoon is a wooden spoon decoratively carved that was traditionally presented as a gift of romantic intent. The second sample of the Welsh Love Spoon above could be read as the following.