How To Carve A Celtic Love Spoon

Due to the intricate designs lovespoons are no longer used as functioning spoons and are now decorative craft items.

How to carve a celtic love spoon. Other woods such as cherry pear and walnut are also nice to carve although denser and will take longer. A local recycling store Re-Store connected to Habitat for Humanity is a great place to pick up the old lumber. Step 4 Scoop Out the Inside of the Spoon.

How to Carve a Spoon Out of Wood. The lacquer coats dry in about fifteen to thirty minutes. It includes the pattern for the design that you can print out and apply to your own blank.

Married within three years. Supplies Needed for Spoon Carving. How to Carve a Traditional Celtic Love-Spoon.

A lovespoon is a wooden spoon decoratively carved that was traditionally presented as a gift of romantic intent. May I court court you. For most of my spoons I use Lime aka basswood.

It is relatively soft for a hardwood and very close and even grained making it ideal for carving. To get 10 off a site of your own vis. In the case of this Celtic Love Spoon I use recycled wood and particularly old Mahogany from old houses that are being torn down or renovated.

This is followed by a paste wax to bring out some luster in the wood. Love Spoons have been handcarved in wood to be given as gifts for centuries in Wales and the tradition is now spreading around the globe as people look for a truly special way of celebrating a Wedding Anniversary Engagement Birthday or just to say Thanks. To carve the spoon bowl a curved gouge is selected usually from various sizes and with the use of a mallet chips away at the wood with the grain.