my first spoon (well, sort of...)

[DoctorSpoon]

I've become very lazy. With Robin being so efficient with the axe and so prolific I usually have a stack of spoons waiting to be finished and rarely find time to pick up an axe myself. However, having spent so much time teaching carving this year I decided it was time to start making spoons from scratch myself, so this Sunday when the weather was cr*p I did OK, they are only little caddy spoons, but they are all my own work for once ...

Guess what everybody will be getting for Christmas this year
Nicola

 

[weaver]

Lovely work! As always.

 

[rancid badger]

Yurrs,,,,weell...okay for a first attempt:theyareon

No- seriously; they are beautiful pieces of work Nicola
puts the old fella on the back foot I reckon:bluThinki

best wishes and lets the see next ones too!

R.B.

 

[DoctorSpoon]

puts the old fella on the back foot I reckon:bluThinki

It's my insurance policy in case he loses it on his motorbike some day ... or decides to trade me in for a newer model

 

[SOAR]

Nice work Nicola they look great.

 

[brancho]

Good work I like the design

 

[DoctorSpoon]

They are based on some beautiful ones made by a Hungarian friend of ours Peter Kohidi:

which reminds me I must have a go at these:

Nicola

 

[drewdunnrespect]

them spoons you have created are as beautiful any i have seen and well there is some real craftsmen and women on this site as you well know nicola so enough said
drew

 

[inthewids]

They are beautiful, what do you use to carve them? I love the knife marks on them, so neat, mine always look messy till sanded. Where do you run your courses?

 

[Hoodoo]

Some great looking spoons!

 

[DoctorSpoon]

They are beautiful, what do you use to carve them? I love the knife marks on them, so neat, mine always look messy till sanded. Where do you run your courses?

I do all my finishing with a Del Stubbs small sloyd knife. It has a small, pointy blade which is highly polished and nicely rounded on the back so it slides around tight corners smoothly. You need to keep the blade quite flat to the wood. Start by sliding the bevel across the surface so it doesn't cut, then tip it up until it only just does. I always leave them to dry for a couple of days before doing the finishing cut. The wood hardens in this time and then takes a much better finish straight off the tool. There's a video of me demonstrating here. We teach from our home village of Edale in the Peak District.
Nicola