Spent one evening attempting to carve my first spoon, and took (crappy) pictures along the way...
I started out with these tools (plus one other knife that can be seen in one of the pics below), no carving knife.. I had one little piece of wood. I actually didn't use the SAK except for the sawing.
First cut the wood to the right length. (Maybe that was a mistake, because later on I had problems fiddling with the spoon end).
The rough work was done with the A1, it performed actually quite well.
After the rough work, looks like a turd lol...
After some finer work with the smaller knife. The problem with that knife smaller is that it has a hollow (concave?) grind, this resulted in the wood easily splitting off along the grain.
Aother view after this step:
After some finer carving. The handle is more or less done.
Back view.
I tried to make the shape of the spoon a little more interesting, in that the drop of the spoon bit shapes upwards. Now I needed to start working on the hollowing out of the spoon bit.
The result, after about 3-4 hrs of carving. This is my first attempt, never even tried to carve anything delicate before.
Another view.
Carving out the hollow bit was a b1tch!
This shows the thin bit (the light thinner area). The spoon is not a user I think as I took away too much on the underside, almost (but not quite) breaking through.
I did not use any sanding paper or files this time, just the knives you can see in the pics.
Next will be a bigger piece of wood from the actual forest to carve a big stirring spoon
Thanks for looking, hope you like it.
Mike
I started out with these tools (plus one other knife that can be seen in one of the pics below), no carving knife.. I had one little piece of wood. I actually didn't use the SAK except for the sawing.
First cut the wood to the right length. (Maybe that was a mistake, because later on I had problems fiddling with the spoon end).
The rough work was done with the A1, it performed actually quite well.
After the rough work, looks like a turd lol...
After some finer work with the smaller knife. The problem with that knife smaller is that it has a hollow (concave?) grind, this resulted in the wood easily splitting off along the grain.
Aother view after this step:
After some finer carving. The handle is more or less done.
Back view.
I tried to make the shape of the spoon a little more interesting, in that the drop of the spoon bit shapes upwards. Now I needed to start working on the hollowing out of the spoon bit.
The result, after about 3-4 hrs of carving. This is my first attempt, never even tried to carve anything delicate before.
Another view.
Carving out the hollow bit was a b1tch!
This shows the thin bit (the light thinner area). The spoon is not a user I think as I took away too much on the underside, almost (but not quite) breaking through.
I did not use any sanding paper or files this time, just the knives you can see in the pics.
Next will be a bigger piece of wood from the actual forest to carve a big stirring spoon
Thanks for looking, hope you like it.
Mike
