Big spoon, tooled or sanded?

[Harvestman]

Make sure you post a pic when you've sanded it then, so we call all make helpful and supportive comments like "Should have gone for the tooled finish, mate"

 

[mountainm]

Make sure you post a pic when you've sanded it then, so we call all make helpful and supportive comments like "Should have gone for the tooled finish, mate"

Aye - but I have the other half of the billet to use if need be.

 

[Stringmaker]

What is clearly needed here is for somebody to produce a double sided spoon from the one billet; one side sanded the other side tooled.

Ladies and Gentlemen; start your spoon knives!

 

[Tjurved]

If it is sanded it should be smooth as glass! No half sanded stuff, either you sand and polish the wood so it shines or you make a tooled finish which could also shine.

 

[mountainm]

If it is sanded it should be smooth as glass! No half sanded stuff, either you sand and polish the wood so it shines or you make a tooled finish which could also shine.

... blimey, no pleasing some people

 

[Chiseller]

Reckon you've answered your own question in yer first post Mike...


Go with what the wood is telling you......

 

[Harvestman]

We probably should distinguish between a smooth finish (which can be achieved through sanding, or by skilled tooling) and a textured finish like the one in the initial picture. A tooled finish is usually, but not always, textured.

 

[Dean]

I like both finishes, depending on the wood, the item it is on, the end use of the item and my mood.
I was once showing of a very smooth boxwood spoon and was asked if it was plastic!
You do not get that kind of comment with a tooled finish!
I have also been asked when I plan to finish a spoon that was a tooled finish....

I have also had this happen with the Birch Spork I made.

I use a sanded finish on my carvings but I do adore a tooled finish.

At the end of the day it comes down to personal preferance.

Nice spoon by the way.

 

[nic.]

We probably should distinguish between a smooth finish (which can be achieved through sanding, or by skilled tooling) and a textured finish like the one in the initial picture. A tooled finish is usually, but not always, textured.

Good point. To take it full circle has anybody tried sanding tool marks into a spoon

 

[John Fenna]

Good point. To take it full circle has anybody tried sanding tool marks into a spoon

Nope - but I have seen "forging hammer marks" applied to a flat knife.....

 

[nic.]

I like it when they use a Ball Pein to make it really obvious. I have though seen 'hammer marks' that turned out to have been made by a carefully set up milling machine.

 

[mountainm]

So I went for sanded....

 

[Zingmo]

A tooled finish would look great on that!


Z

 

[mountainm]

A tooled finish would look great on that!


Z

Yeah yeah yeah...

 

[Macaroon]

I think you made the right call, mountainm, they both look really good................the sanding really does bring the grain to the eye very sweetly. I'd be extremely pleased to have made those........atb mac

 

[British Red]

So I went for sanded....

That looks great - a really nice job

 

[Kepis]

Nice one Mike

 

[Harvestman]

Lovely spoons

 

[Stringmaker]

Good choice; the grain has come up superbly on those.

 

[nic.]

Looks good, right decision I think - and it may be the light but I like the bowl profile, looks like it has a flat bottom and steep sides? That would have been difficult to cut smoothly with a blade.