How To Carve A Welsh Love Spoon

In the spoon in the photo I followed the stain with three coats of lacquer.

How to carve a welsh love spoon. Worked from one piece of wood the open link chain is used to connect the different design pieces. This is followed by a paste wax to bring out some luster in the wood. The number of years they would be together.

Description CARVING SPOONS 2ND EDITION Spoon carving instructor Shirley Adler will get you started making beautiful spoons to keep for yourself of give away. Some believe the tradition begun with sailors that were in long sea voyages far away from loved ones. Tools such as small pocket knives and close grain woods such as sycamore were all a love smitten male suitor needed to carve a love spoon.

Cwtch means cuddle in Welsh my favorite Welsh word of all time and the heart is made out of Welsh slate. Shirley provides step-by-step instructions for shaping the bowl and adding detail to the handle. In this episode I show you how I tackled the caged ball section of the Welsh Love Spoon.

An alternative explanation is that young men carved these spoons during the winter months to pass time but it is not yet clear when the tradition begun. They are a selection of different sized gauges three straight flat ones and half a dozen carving knives. Sailors would spend time at sea making these for their intended sweethearts who was hopefully waiting patien tly for them on a far away shore.

The lacquer coats dry in about fifteen to thirty minutes. On average more than 13 of the time spent making a spoon is spent sanding using three different grits of sandpaper. Welsh love spoons gouges.

Giving you a basic idea of how we make a love spoon. Note that for me even missing elements hold meaning. A demonstration of hand carving a Welsh love spoon by Dai lovespoons Thomas at The Lovespoon Workshop.