Well, yes that's true. It's probably easier to carve than a spoon, eh? I may carve the spatula but try and add a few new features to it, give it a fancy handle and a hole for a lanyard or something. There's no point in crafting something that's in a sense a step back is there? I'll get the spatula done, but I need a few good tutorials for kuksa and bowl please.A spatula is just a split piece of wood (starting with about a cm thick) that you thin out with your axe and knife and then you give it a kind of paddle shape.
It's one of the simplest things you can make out of wood, good luck and have fun!
What an incredibly resourceful website. Thanks.Check out Jon R's website, loads of tutorials there for you to try out.
As for a bowl and kuksa, the techniques are the same for both. Just the bowl doesn't have a handle and is a bit bigger
Kuksa's are hard to carve! I've made about three and they've all been bad, but it was all great fun!
I have to disagree about when you said there is no pint in taking a step back to basics, you've only made a few spoons, I'm not experienced my self, but the basics help you strengthen your skills.
Well whatever you do, have fun and do it for pleasure!
I don't mean there's no point in not going back to basics, I'm saying that the spatula is inherently easier to carve since it doesn't factor in making a bowl or anything like that. It's simpler by design than a spoon. Alls I was saying is that I'll probably make a handle design and a lanyard hole to make it more complicated than it needs to be, to improve my skills because without that the spatula is less complicated than a spoon. And why would one carve something easier than after they've already carved something harder. Understand?
