How To Finish Carved Wooden Spoon
Once you have the inside roughly carved out use a pencil to draw the shape you want on the side of the spoon to the outer edge and back.
How to finish carved wooden spoon. Thus you can harvest your wood from a tree stump totally free of cost. Hand-wash them in soapy water dont submerge them. The finishing process involves sanding and coating with a non-toxic oil.
Do not let them soak for a long time in water and never put them in the dishwasher which will cause the wood to deteriorate quickly. For my standard spoon finishing I cut the tung oil 5050 with a citrus based. Walnut oil was used extensively in Europe as part of the French polish finish for furniture and other household items.
Make sure youre using skimmed milk as its the milk fats which lead to that spoiled milk smell. Since you need tiny bits for wooden spoons it is easy to get sufficient raw material. Holly is a creamy white wood with a lovely close grain which roasts beautifully.
Seasoning your wooden spoons is only one part of caring for them. Walnut has a hardness of 4500 Janka scale which again is suitable for carving wooden spoons and spatulas. In this episode I go through the possible finis.
Water has a way of messing with wood causing the wood to expand and then as the wood dries it shrinks and then your really cool spoon splits down the middle. How to Finish a Wooden Spoon. You can use polymerized tung oil if thats whats available and I occasionally.
Carve away with your carving knife on the side and back. Milk has a kind of protein called casein that forms a sort of plastic coating. Slide it down the corner making sure to maintain a 90-degree angle.
