How To Make Handmade Wooden Spoons
Using an ink pad and a sponge apply ink to the stencil by rubbing the sponge in ink and then rubbing over the stencil on the spoon.
How to make handmade wooden spoons. All wood can be used but fruit tree are best. Turtle wooden spoon made from Linden wood painted and finished with beeswax and flax oil. Ive been wanting to make a wooden spoon for some time now.
In the colonial days the wood for spoons was rived with a froe a metal blade which was pounded into the end grain. It needs to be newly cut. This didnt take long at all using this tool.
Step 3 Cut the spoon out on the bandsaw. We intend to smoke the body off this spoon using a handmade Rosa or sandpaper for this purpose. In this video I make a few sets of wooden kitchen utensils from some spalted sycamore off cuts.
For this spoon Im using applewood. Each of our works of handmade home décor kitchen utensils and wooden spoons is unique never carved from a template and made in Ireland from wood grown found or reclaimed in West Cork. Made of pine and sealed with Tung oil.
Some still rive the wood for spoons and this is a fine way to make them. This caused the wood to split right along the path of the grain and all handles produced in this manner had handles which followed the grain. Justin shares his obvious skill and enthusiasm for this work as he.
I would coat the spoon with that then Id put it in the microwave for 5 to 10 maybe 15 seconds on high until the spoon was really warm. Cut out the outline of the spoon. We are doing things differently only taking from nature as much as we can give back making wooden spoons and kitchen utensils that will last a lifetime and teaching others to live and work together with our planet.
