How To Carve A Spoon With Just A Knife
Identify the four types of wood carving.
How to carve a spoon with just a knife. Is it possible to carve a usable spoon in 10 Minutes with a Victorinox Swiss Army KnifeIn this video i show you a special technique how to carve the concav. Whittling relief carving carving in the round and chip carving. Start each cut at one side of.
Generally a right handed person uses a right handed hook or sweep. Now turn the spoon around in the vise and work on the outside of the bowl. On my spoon it is about 12 inch deep at the bottom of the bowl.
Once the bowl is shaped I can come in with a hook knife and clean out all of the facets left from the carving gouge. To get into spoon carving you dont need more than a regular carving knife and a hook knife to make a beautiful work of art. Please call to find out more.
I provide training and workshops for people to learn how to use just an axe a wood carving knife and a spoon knife to make spoons and other treen. Use a spokeshave to round over the edges of the facets. Whittling is an old carving style primarily done with the use of a stiff-handled whittling knife.
In this video ill show you how to carve a wood spoon using only your knife. Available for small groups 1-2-1 training and events. Carving a simple spoon can be done in as little as 30 minutes but if you want to carve a spoon with lots of intricate details it could take you several days to a week to complete.
I carved the bowl first by drilling a hole with the tip of the knife and then carving around the inside edge until it was deeper and wider. Workshops from two hours to two days can be tailored to your requirements. Use a drawknife or handsaw to shape three large chamfers two on each side and one on the end.
