Spoons & a Lesson

[dancan]

I've been laid up for a bit and have a little more time to go , as time and weather permits .
Barefoot carving anyone LOL .

None of the neighbours saw the guy on crutches carrying an axe so to work I went .


Split an old piece of poplar

Roughed of a couple of blanks

Oops , I did not have my hand in the safe zone , I can say one thing for sure , get rid of all the blood before you call your wife for a band-aid if you're already disabled and don't even mention the words ''Should probably have stitches''

Knife ready

Rainy day pic but all done

Group shot

Always keep your body in the safe zone .

 

[woodspirits]

oh wow! really good collection you have there, and a great pictorial walkthrough, loving the ones at the front! im rubbish at spoons.

steve

 

[Dreadhead]

haha nice one thanks for sharing that those spoons are braw, especially love the bottom two in the group shot!

 

[grey-array]

Looking really nice there love the shapes you use in your spoons.
yours sincerely Ruud

 

[dancan]

Thanks for the kind words but I have a lot of work ahead to catch up we a lot of the carvers on this site .
I wish some of you guys would come over here to put on a course , if not I'll have to win the loto so I can go over there for a course or two .

 

[Biker]

Some seriously fine spoonage there sir. I have yet to make one of those tings. The first one I did was awful and I'm scared to repeat the process.

Good point about wiping up the blood before calling for a band aid. I'll have to remember that top tip. The scorn and "Told you so" factor has got to be severely reduced if your advice is followed.

 

[Perrari]

Nice spoons. I really must practice more, so that mine look like that.

 

[Dannytsg]

Very nice work there.

 

[Mick w.]

Those spoons are great - I take it you rough them out with the axe, whittle them and do the deeper bowls with a hook knife?
I'vew just started with spoons, what do you use as a finish coating, so you can actually use them with foodstuffs?

 

[dancan]

Those spoons are great - I take it you rough them out with the axe, whittle them and do the deeper bowls with a hook knife?
I'vew just started with spoons, what do you use as a finish coating, so you can actually use them with foodstuffs?

I try and get them close with the axe , the knife come next , I use a Frosts spoon knife for the bowls because that's what I have at the moment and usually finish the spoons with a food safe tung oil and a Clapham's beeswax finish .
The spoons I make for myself I do leave rough , the ones that I give away are usually sanded smooth .
I forgot to mention that I hate sanding but my knifework still leaves a lot to be sanded .

 

[crosslandkelly]

Great looking spoons, Perrari is right about practising. I must do some more.

 

[Mick w.]

Cheers Dancan, never heard of tung oil but I'll be looking into it. It may be one of those things with a different name over here in the uk, I'm sure someone on here will enlighten me..!

 

[Bushcraftsman]

very nice work, I dont dare try again after every one of mine ends up breaking on one of the final cuts! I don't have the delicate hand i'd like!

 

[dancan]

Cheers Dancan, never heard of tung oil but I'll be looking into it. It may be one of those things with a different name over here in the uk, I'm sure someone on here will enlighten me..!

This is the tung oil that I use http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.aspx?p=20049&cat=1,190,42942 , if I had food grade linseed oil I'd use that as well .

very nice work, I dont dare try again after every one of mine ends up breaking on one of the final cuts! I don't have the delicate hand i'd like!

Why not try again ? I threw one in the firewood pile yesterday LOL

 

[georann]

Always keep your body in the safe zone .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8rZWw9HE7o Sorry couldn't resist

Seriously, nice work though!

 

[Bushcraftsman]

I wont try again because I need to give myself a break from them otherwise im going to give up forever! I get easily frustrated with things like that! it's like the couple of times ive tried to make a bow, just as i draw it for the first couple of times it snaps....its utterly heartbreaking when that happens! :'(