New spoon junkie

[stinkymilo]

Hi,
Well I've decided to jump on the spoon bandwagon and here's the result of a couple hours whittling in the garden yesterday with my trusty clipper. Sorry for tthe poor pics but my camera is really bad.

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I used some Hazel that I had knocking around, seems ok to work with. Very relaxing, can't wait to get some more wood to try another. I'm hooked!!!!

 

[Pignut]

LOL you will soon have a lounge full!

Looks good by the way!

 

[pibbleb]

Looks good. It is very relaxing and I can understand how you have got hooked!

I started only a little while ago on the spoon thing and people have started asking me to make stuff for them oooooh the pressure.

Well done again and enjoy

Pib

 

[stinkymilo]

Cheers guys,

Just out of interest what woods are best for grain patterns as the hazel seems to be pretty plain?

 

[pibbleb]

I'm a bit of a Birch fan, it's easy to carve with and the spoon I finished recently has some nice patterns on it from the grain http://www.bushcraftuk.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=1040&cat=500&ppuser=3555 , but apart from that I can't really help.


Pib

 

[stinkymilo]

Thanks Pib,
I can't get the link to your pic to work but I did find the thread where you posted a birch spoon and It looks great, lovely grain. That really is some beautiful work. Now all I need is some birch and a few days locked in the shed.

ATB

Stinky

 

[pibbleb]

Cheers for that.

ooooh Shed, I need one of those! I have found finding wood difficult as I've limited myself to fallen wood only. I'm not sure on the ethics of harvesting wood from living trees.

The other thing I've found hard is sharpening my knife after carving, but there is some good advice on here about sharpening methods and people like British Red are a mind of information.

Pib

 

[Pignut]

Cheers guys,

Just out of interest what woods are best for grain patterns as the hazel seems to be pretty plain?

Ash, and any fruit trees seem to be good for grain, also try oak!

however all of the fruit trees are a bit prone to cracking

 

[longshot]

does anyone have experience in using soft woods like pine, spruce or fir? the birch around here is small and the soft woods are more plentifull and larger.

thanks
dean


PS. we also have larch that gets fair sized.

 

[Nemisis]

I was practicing on a piece of seasoned pine I found in the shed and the grain was difficult might be how it was sawn but it can also be very knotty
Dave.