Howdy all, on Sunday I thought I might give spoon carving a try.
After reading up on some posts etc I just went for it.
Found a piece of Spruce(?) that was cut and left out in my local woodlands - debarked and kinda batoned:
After some rough shaping, tools used:
Finer whittling, touch of kolrosing (seriously basic) and some sanding:
Then finer sanding, filled with fine coffee and oil oiled up with olive oil (read it on Waylands Ravelore site!)
Some things I've learnt from my first attempt:
1. Try not to use wood with too many branches coming off
2. I think a hatchet would speed up the whole shaping process - but am open to suggestions!
3. My Frosts hook knife has too big a curve to make the 'bowl?' smaller if that makes sense..?
4. Mine ended slightly off center so I'll use a template or keep sketching out the shape is I whittle the pencil lines off
5. Don't 'gouge' too much when kolrosing
6. Wear a glove!
7. Don't do it in the kitchen! The wife wasn't too impressed about the amount of shavings!
All in all I really enjoyed my self - on to another spoon and maybe a kuksa...
Please let me know your spooney secrets!
Joel
After reading up on some posts etc I just went for it.
Found a piece of Spruce(?) that was cut and left out in my local woodlands - debarked and kinda batoned:
After some rough shaping, tools used:
Finer whittling, touch of kolrosing (seriously basic) and some sanding:
Then finer sanding, filled with fine coffee and oil oiled up with olive oil (read it on Waylands Ravelore site!)
Some things I've learnt from my first attempt:
1. Try not to use wood with too many branches coming off
2. I think a hatchet would speed up the whole shaping process - but am open to suggestions!
3. My Frosts hook knife has too big a curve to make the 'bowl?' smaller if that makes sense..?
4. Mine ended slightly off center so I'll use a template or keep sketching out the shape is I whittle the pencil lines off
5. Don't 'gouge' too much when kolrosing
6. Wear a glove!
7. Don't do it in the kitchen! The wife wasn't too impressed about the amount of shavings!
All in all I really enjoyed my self - on to another spoon and maybe a kuksa...
Please let me know your spooney secrets!
Joel