How To Make Wooden Spoons With Hand Tools
Use clamps to hold the spoon in place for drilling unless you are stronger than a horse.
How to make wooden spoons with hand tools. Bandsaw to cut to rough shape and to remove a lot of excess material. The spoon pattern shown below can be resized and printed to match your piece of wood. Sand your spoon to 220-grit then apply a nontoxic oil finish eg.
To get 10 off a site of your own vis. Any small hand axe will do fine. It is easier with one of these tools to make a deeper bowl in a spoon than you can with spoon bent gouges.
A curved card scraper makes short work of smoothing out the bowl. Butcher block olive peanut or vegetable oil. It just needs to be sharp.
How to Create a Wooden Spoon using HAND TOOLS. My tools are hand forged reconstructions of viking tools. And of course finally the carving knife to refine it all.
Step 3 Cut the spoon out on the bandsaw. My favorite way of carving inside my workshop- more tools easier techniques. Possible dimensions for your wooden spoon.
Step 2 Trace the spoon pattern onto the wood with a pencil or marker. A good hand axe weighs around 500-600g. Use card scrapers to remove tool marks and tearout.
