How To Cut Wooden Spoon
This is done on an 8mm chisel.
How to cut wooden spoon. Press into the spoons bowl with a smooth rock or pestle to harden the wood. Thats a very good wood for spoonmaking. Then it will be wet and workable for 2-4 weeks.
Use a gouge to carve the concave surface by going halfway across and then gouge the chips out from the opposite direction. Use a power carver with a rounded gouge to carve out the bowl of the spoon. Making the spoon emerge from the wood.
Carve out the bowl of the spoon. It needs to be newly cut. Push the gouge forward into the wood making cuts.
With the dimensions of this board I should be able to make up to 4 spoons. The size of the initial block of wood will be dependent on how big of spoon you plan to construct. All wood can be used but fruit tree are best.
The wood you dont use right away you can leave it some high grass. There are four easy methods to rough cutting your wood carving spoon blank bench knife coping saw draw knife and scroll saw. For this spoon Im using applewood.
There are many ways to carve a wooden spoon the method this Blog is focused on is greenwood carving using only hand tools. Hollowing out the spoon. Cut out the spoon with a saw.
