My friends and I refer to these as warspoons. It comes from doing re-enactments and big camping events, the joke being that should the camp come under attack while cooking you can use the spoon to defend yourself. This was made from cherry and I shaped it using both hand and power tools. I am likely to put hiking points and fire grate/pot hooks on the but of the next ones.
This was in the firewood pile. I started to split kindling off and the shape screamed spoon! So it became a Spoon. It happens to fit nicely in a mulberry bowl I carved.
Ready for a witches cauldron I guess!
First few spoons (and one butter knife) I’ve done. First out of a stick, then out of a few dead service berry wood logs. White is I think a pear tree log that was somewhat fresh cut. It was my first green wood so I may have gotten carried away with how easy it was to chop through. Any suggestions on what to improve would be appreciated. Thanks!
The wood is a piece of dry walnut. The edge retention seems comparable to the mora 162 that my friend carves with.
Hook knife from an old sawzall blade. It has a little more flex the i want but over all I think worked out well. What do you think?
Most recent spoon. My friends and I do alot of camping and large events so utensils I can reach across with or use for to move alot of mass are helpful. Used a small adze for the initial bowl and it might have been larger than originally intended.
Left to right wood types:
Alder
Maple
Cherry
Birch
Walnut
Cherry
Cherry
Plum(?)
Maple
Alder
Hey ya’all.
So, I do a moderate amount of hobbyist wood work.
I started after seeing some bowel carving…
…decided the hand instruments used cost too much for quality tools, and so I found cheaper / faster power tools to accomplish the same things
Anyhow, a tight bowl is hard to do. I don’t have a power tool for it.
I can do some bulk reduction with a drill press
Can refine the form some with a router….
But getting that perfect bowl shape…
I think I just have to have a good quality hook knife.
I’m trying to make some soup ladles
So, what suggestions do you all have for me?
Thanks
First time trying Yakisugi, was nervous about cracking so kept it to the handle. Anyone have tips/ experience charring the bowl?
Rather than axe out a bunch of blanks for tge week, I decided to take one from log to near complete. This billet had gotten pretty moldy at the bottom of my bin so I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out. Unknown, what's under the yuck? Lol
Maple spatula, cherry coffee scoop and walnut coffee scoop. Raw linseed oil after burnishing.
Carved this spoon from a piece of apple wood i had laying around. Turns out it had been laying around a little too long because it had fully dried and resisted its spoonification considerably...
The charing is from an attempt at burning out the scoopy part of the spoon before giving up on that and getting the right tool for the job.
Im looking foreward to hearing your comments, feedback and questions!
Carved from black locust, super hard. Also learned it's black light reactive
This one was made from a scrap piece that I had from milling, grain was a little wack but still made it work with what I had. Let me know what yall think
Could be better, but I'm quite proud of it :)
Found this and found it interesting. Anyone up for a challenge in recreating the spoon in the blog picture. Could be fun
https://sites.bu.edu/gastronomyblog/2012/10/17/spooniness-mary-beaudry-serves-up-spoons-history/
I know it's not perfect, but it was good practice, and I know what to improve on