spoons

[hardr004]

Does anybody know how to make spoons knifes or forks?

 

[Shewie]

From what ?

I should think everybody on here has had a go at carving a wooden spoon or three.

 

[hardr004]

I am very new to all this

 

[launditch1]

There are lots of keen spoon carvers on here and some firstclass knife makers too, like Shewie said, what kind of materials?

 

[FGYT]

Im definatly no expert in carving spoons but heres how i was shown to do a simple one

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=41859

ATB

Duncan

 

[hardr004]

What wood would you recomend?

 

[launditch1]

Ash, Hazel, and cherry are good woods..

 

[mikethescout]

If you just starting, I would go with birch. I always find its the easiest to work with.

 

[mr dazzler]

Birch yes definately, like carving firm cheese-when its green. But it needs to be fresh, if its stood outside on the ground more than a month or so it wil have stated to go, it just rots fast for some reason. Sycamore is a nice one, very food safe. Alder is more exotique, so to speak, a lovely pinky red orange and cream colour. Lime wood is also soft. All these are lovely to carve. I would avoid oak, ash, pine etc because of their strong grain structures which can be trickier to navigate. Cherry is nice too but difficult to dry without serious cracks appearing
Robin wood has probaly done the best set of spoon carving how to videos (up to now any way). They are on youtube, "robinturns" eg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lx-NTPBoLmU&feature=channel
chers Jonathan