Elm spoon whittle

[Chris]

As the power was out yesterday and was forced to live the life of a literal caveman, I thought I'd take the opportunity to whittle a very basic spoon out of some Elm. Kepis has inspired me to get back into doing the odd whittle. It's been a few years and I'm a complete amateur. It's not pretty, but it's a spoon.




What I learned:

- Knife sharp. Fire hot. Finger ow. Ug.
- Elm is quite tricky to carve, I've never tried it before. A couple of times for seemingly no reason, the blade would catch a bit of divergent grain or something and it'd take a big chunk out rather than a nice elegant shaving. This is probably also down to my (lack of) skill.
- I think I will be following Kepis' advice for my next one and soaking the wood, as the wood I have is very dry.

Anyway, it was a fun little whittle and the electricity-free time just flew by whilst happily in my own world with the knife and the elm.

 

[Kepis]

Looks good to me, Elm can be a sod to carve as the grain dives all over the shop and as you rightly say , its hard, but equally the effort can be worth it with some amazing grain patterns and colours.

Hope your finger heals quickly.

 

[Chris]

Looks good to me, Elm can be a sod to carve as the grain dives all over the shop and as you rightly say , its hard, but equally the effort can be worth it with some amazing grain patterns and colours.

Hope your finger heals quickly.

Thanks! It's only a nick and a very sharp blade so it should heal up nice and quickly.

The grain patterns are lovely, I think with a bit of practice I'll be able to showcase those a bit more without the cuts making it look so messy.

 

[Tony]

, thanks for sharing it

 

[Kadushu]

Elm is beautiful and you've made a shapely little spoon