First ever spoon carving

[ananix]

You should consider finding a piece of wood that already resamples a spoon. Here is what to look for

I will also recomend you using dry wood (your looks mighty fresh but i understand it can be lag of natural reacourses) to the point just before detariation, it will make carving and burning 100times faster, chop chop handle, chop chop bowl, burn burn deepening, slurp slurp soup

I never understood these artifacts you guys sit at home and make instead of getting out, its a spoon takes less time with an amber and a knife than it takes to boil water, after that its a campfire activity to fiddle it up.

http://rover-spejderen.blogspot.com/2010/03/nok-den-sidste-vinter-weekend-2010.html

When i was finished eating i smoothent it up and a thint it a bit at the end and used a litle stick with glowing end to burn a small string hole so i could hang it on my bivuak unto breakfast next morning

Yours is pretty but more for looks and sale than practic and usage. Are you a pretty boy or a rover? sorry keep up the good work! *GGG

 

[bikebum1975]

Great work Bud.

 

[SOAR]

Oh I see, flaxseed oil is what I need. I'm glad I didn't go ahead a put linseed on it!
I really like the Kuksa, I see that it wasn't sanded completely smooth. Is that because of personal preference or is that how they should be? I gotta take my hat off to you with regards to the finish, it's a real skill to not cut too deep etc.

Its personal preference really, some folk sand their work and some like the tooled finish, the tooled faceted finish can be very pleasing to the eye when done well and shows how the peice was made by hand and not on machines. I mix between the two really.