How To Make Wooden Spoons With Hand Tools
After using the burrs I clean up the tool marks with the hand held spoon bent gouge using light finishing cuts.
How to make wooden spoons with hand tools. Pick a location on the board that will allow you to get multiple spoons. While each maker will have his or her own way of working I offer this to share methods and techniques that I have developed or borrowed and refined during my thirty-five years as a spoon carver. It just needs to be sharp.
Gouge and hook knife to carve out the bowl. Step 3 Cut the spoon out on the bandsaw. A curved card scraper makes short work of smoothing out the bowl.
Showing how the scroll on the handle can be used to hang the spoon. Use clamps to hold the spoon in place for drilling unless you are stronger than a horse. Through this experiment I discovered my favorite way to make spoons.
Possible dimensions for your wooden spoon. A good hand axe weighs around 500-600g. My tools are hand forged reconstructions of viking tools.
Spoon carving is a bit more refined than crudely making one and in our shared interest of craft I will focus on specific tools that are used to carve wooden spoons. The spoon pattern shown below can be resized and printed to match your piece of wood. Rough sanding in process Finished hand made wooden spoon with olive oil finish 17 long.
These basic tools will get you there. I prepared this guide as a helpful tool for aspiring spoon makers and instructional guide for collectors. It is easier with one of these tools to make a deeper bowl in a spoon than you can with spoon bent gouges.
