Here are some process shots of the latest little eating spoon I made. Mesquite, of course, since that's what I have to work with. Hard as anything and cranky too, but when you just HAVE to carve spoons, you do it with whatever's available....
For this one I just grabbed a little leftover chunk from the saw...
Width after splitting off the part where the crack was.
After knocking away at it with the adze, this is what it looks like.
After the adze comes the knife and then some alternating between knife and gouge.
With greenwood, the curved spoon knife does the bowl, but with this dry hardwood I have to use the gouge and then I clean up the gouge marks with the curved knife.
The final spoon with some walnut oil on it.
For this one I just grabbed a little leftover chunk from the saw...
Width after splitting off the part where the crack was.
After knocking away at it with the adze, this is what it looks like.
After the adze comes the knife and then some alternating between knife and gouge.
With greenwood, the curved spoon knife does the bowl, but with this dry hardwood I have to use the gouge and then I clean up the gouge marks with the curved knife.
The final spoon with some walnut oil on it.
