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Re: Spoon Carving
I love this Badger! I am so keen to give this a go
boobiejuicemama- Posts : 240
Join date : 2010-05-29
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Father Christmas came up trumps. I now have a collection of carving tools, a set of new ones and some old Marples chisels from the days when Marples were a good brand.
I've started having a go at spoon #1
One thing I notice is that I'm creating quite a pile of wood chippings and shavings, so even if the spoon comes out rubbish, I'm hoping to try and smoke some chillies with the debris - but that's for another section of the forum, I think ...
I've started having a go at spoon #1
One thing I notice is that I'm creating quite a pile of wood chippings and shavings, so even if the spoon comes out rubbish, I'm hoping to try and smoke some chillies with the debris - but that's for another section of the forum, I think ...
Chilli-head- Admin and Boss man
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Chilli-head- Admin and Boss man
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Re: Spoon Carving
Wow! Very pretty.
flute- Homemade Moderator
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Re: Spoon Carving
Oh I love this one too! clever folks
boobiejuicemama- Posts : 240
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I use walnut oil - that is an amazing first attempt, my first one looked like it had bee carved with flint tools..
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Wicked cool! That looks so awesome. It's the sort of thing that makes me want to try to do something too but I have such a history of somehow not doing things right.
I promised myself I would be braver and try. I'm so afraid I'll cut myself since knives and I don't get along. Makes cooking very interesting.
I promised myself I would be braver and try. I'm so afraid I'll cut myself since knives and I don't get along. Makes cooking very interesting.
Penny- Posts : 155
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Location : Step by Step Farm, Berkshire Mtns, Massachusetts, USA
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Dead gorgeous! I love it, Chili!
Oh, and Penny, getting cut is half the fun! Sharp objects and I have had a give and take relationship, basically, all of my life. With the continued fostering of that relationship, you refine what you expect from each other, lol.
I'll get a cut from work almost daily. Mabye it's a scratch, maybe a small cut what bleeds a few minutes (it's amazing how quickly industrial contaminants still blood flow ), and, very seldom, is it something worthy of a bandage.
I'd love to give these spoons a go when I can get the right blades for it. Have to save nickels and dimes!
Oh, and Penny, getting cut is half the fun! Sharp objects and I have had a give and take relationship, basically, all of my life. With the continued fostering of that relationship, you refine what you expect from each other, lol.
I'll get a cut from work almost daily. Mabye it's a scratch, maybe a small cut what bleeds a few minutes (it's amazing how quickly industrial contaminants still blood flow ), and, very seldom, is it something worthy of a bandage.
I'd love to give these spoons a go when I can get the right blades for it. Have to save nickels and dimes!
mr_sfstk8d- Posts : 584
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Nice to see you are easing into it Chilli, w w its a belter...
Sparhawk- Posts : 1787
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Re: Spoon Carving
Thanks for the kind coments everyone
I've no great artistic ability, but having seen some Welsh love spoons I quite liked that Celtic sort of woven/ knotted/... pattern (which must have a proper name ...) and I wanted to use that idea but keep it simple.
The wood is beech WoodTroll; it was an offcut I had around from making a bathroom cabinet. I shall look out for some walnut oil.
Now, I really like those chains carved from a single piece of wood without any glueing, I want to figure out how to do that sometime.
That's how I felt when I saw Badger's photos on this thread. I do hope some more of you give it a try ! I really value the inspiration to try things I get from you lot.Penny wrote:
It's the sort of thing that makes me want to try to do something too
I've no great artistic ability, but having seen some Welsh love spoons I quite liked that Celtic sort of woven/ knotted/... pattern (which must have a proper name ...) and I wanted to use that idea but keep it simple.
The wood is beech WoodTroll; it was an offcut I had around from making a bathroom cabinet. I shall look out for some walnut oil.
Now, I really like those chains carved from a single piece of wood without any glueing, I want to figure out how to do that sometime.
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Chilli-head- Admin and Boss man
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Seriously stunning...
I wouldn't want to get involved in a "who can pee higher up the wall competition..." with you...
I wouldn't want to get involved in a "who can pee higher up the wall competition..." with you...
Sparhawk- Posts : 1787
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Re: Spoon Carving
Absolutly tops
polgara- Posts : 3028
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Amazing. Love it! And I'm sure they will too.
mr_sfstk8d- Posts : 584
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I have to confess here that the twiddly bits look much harder to make than they actually are. The design is predominantly 2 dimensional, so you just draw it onto your wood, cut it out with a coping saw and remove material from the back and front to create the weaving under/over look. The final step is to round things out using knives. There is a really good tutorial, with some patterns here. I didn't find that site untill after I'd worked out my own way of doing things, but what I do is very similar.
The one thing I would say is that I do things in a different order - I hollow out the bowl of the spoon, and cut out the piercings first. Why ? it is much easier to clamp a rectangular block !
Go on, give it a go. It is not as hard as it looks !
The one thing I would say is that I do things in a different order - I hollow out the bowl of the spoon, and cut out the piercings first. Why ? it is much easier to clamp a rectangular block !
Go on, give it a go. It is not as hard as it looks !
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I am just about to go off and improve my spoon carving with a course by Robin Wood - really looking forward to it and hoping I can get results that look as good as those here.
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That's truly lovely, the sort of thing any right minded person would love to own. I've never carved anything useful, husband occassionally makes himself a new club for killing fish but never a spoon or anything useful to me. Off to google books and knives :-)
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