Home grown Spoons

[Chopper]

I had been looking for a while for a large wooden spoon to use with my potjie pot, and thought that I would have a go, I had a good look through my wood pile (for my log burner) and found a well seasoned sweet chestnut branch that turned in to a rather slim ladle and low and behold I found an off cut from a length of untreated pine plank left over from a bit of DIY, and after a wave of the axe, knife and crook knife a large spoon fell out of it.

 

[StormWalker]

Nice work on the spoons.

What did you use to burn the detail into them?

 

[Daniel]

Very very nice, I'll have to make another spoon soon methinks!

I've never carved pine, how is it for carving with?

 

[Hoodoo]

Couple of beauties there!

 

[Chopper]

I've never carved pine, how is it for carving with?

Very easy, too easy.

I collect loads of off cuts from a local timber yard to use as kindling for my wood burning stove, and I must admit I do get carried away in the winter months, as when i bring a couple of habndfuls in to keep next to the stove it usually land up with a lot of shavings and either another knife, fork, spoon, ladle or spatular (SP) being made, in-fact, I think I nearly have enough wooden cutlery for a sitting of 24. I think that I may be hooked.

 

[Tiffers]

Ahh, I hope this thread might have answered a question I have!

Is sweet chestnut suitable for making a spoon? I have a rather suitable bit I want to use but thought i'd check first!

Tiffers

 

[benjamin.oneill]

Ahh, I hope this thread might have answered a question I have!

Is sweet chestnut suitable for making a spoon? I have a rather suitable bit I want to use but thought i'd check first!

Tiffers

I'm guessing it would be ideal. It is full of tannins that preserve it well, hence its use in fencing. As long as you didn't stew it in the pot with whatever you were cooking for a legnth of time you wouldn't get any taint. It is also non-toxic.

 

[Pignut]

Wow!

Good work fella! I can feel a spoon coming on!

 

[Joeri]

Wow!

Good work fella! I can feel a spoon coming on!

where exactly do you feel it coming?


nice work on the spoons!

 

[billycan]

I like the leather 'sheath' for the spoon knife, it very good, a really simple effective design, did you make it?

 

[bowman]

Top stuff, mate. You can't beat a scratch through the woodpile. My first birch spoon came from a potential log. Just mind the oak.