Walnut Pocket Spoon

[Kepis]

Pocket spoon in seasoned Walnut, this one was a challenge to carve as the wood is quite hard and due to the high silica content of Walnut it does tend to dull your tools, nothing regular stropping doesn't fix though, the spoon has my favoured teardrop bowl shape, a nice tapered handle which fits the hand beautifully and my usual off the knife finish.

Bottom photo with a SAK for scale.

 

[Brizzlebush]

Ooh that's purdy

 

[Mesquite]

Very nice Mark, interesting to hear that walnut has silicate in that dulls the blade

 

[Foogs]

Another gorgeous piece, Mark.

I've been working on a coffee scoop from a piece of walnut, but I've had the blank for years and it's seasoned like granite. I (and my hook knife) dread going back to it, but we'll get there eventually!

 

[Muddypaws]

Simple, yet elegant! You are really rather good at this carving lark.

 

[Kepis]

Another gorgeous piece, Mark.

I've been working on a coffee scoop from a piece of walnut, but I've had the blank for years and it's seasoned like granite. I (and my hook knife) dread going back to it, but we'll get there eventually!

Cheers mate.

Re the hard as nails wood, if i have pieces like that that seem impossible to do anything with i put them in boiling water until they become saturated, you will know when it's done as the wood will sink, I did that last year with some rock hard Beech and it worked a treat, made the wood much easier to carve even with arthritic hands.

 

[Foogs]

Cheers mate.

Re the hard as nails wood, if i have pieces like that that seem impossible to do anything with i put them in boiling water until they become saturated, you will know when it's done as the wood will sink, I did that last year with some rock hard Beech and it worked a treat, made the wood much easier to carve even with arthritic hands.

Excellent, thanks for the tip, I'll give that a try.