My first spoon!

[mountainm]

It's a right of passage. Made from cherry. Needs fine sanding and oiling.

[Dannytsg]

Seems to be a very good effort for your first spoon!

[Androo]

Yea, very sweet! My first cherry spoon is appauling!
Mind if I ask what tools were used?

[mountainm]

Thanks - tools were: Axe, knife, spoon knife.
Its deeper than it looks in the photo.

[Androo]

I guess the spoon knife makes all the difference for carving the bowl. My spoons have all been hacked out with a chisel gouge.

Your spoon looks very useable, gonna do some more?

PS. Yer inbox is full ;O)

[mountainm]

Inbox cleared. I've used a gouge on other projects and actually prefer it to a spoon knife. But i wanted to use it for this spoon - the whittler knife did a lot of the tidying up.

[Dreadhead]

nice job, a spoon to be proud of

[Kepis]

nice one Mike

[mountainm]

Thanks, need some oil on it. The grain looks very promising. I naively thought it was going to be easy - i know better now! Fortunately the cherry was lovely to carve. However next time i think i will rough the bowl out first, then shape the spoon.

[plastic-ninja]

Looks very sweet and a proper user too.
My first one was pretty dire and totally unusable.
Good effort.
Cheers , Simon

[titanius anglesmith]

Hi all ,
nice first spoon.
Regards Chris.

[grey- array]

Looks really good there Mike,
A first spoon to cherish.
Yours sincerely Ruud

[outdoorpaddy]

Thats a fantastic first spoon! In cherry as well, lovely shape on the bowl too, well done!
cheers

paddy

[Hugo]

Looks good to me Mike, my first spoon was a good turn out as well, used it yesterday in fact.

[mountainm]

Cheers Hugo, I made it with the walnut handled knife you handled.

[Hugo]

I want it back.

[mountainm]

I want it back.

Yours for £40 - the maker is very good. Free sheath.

[bikebum1975]

Damn nice work wished my first spoon looked as nice LOL

[mountainm]

Now with added walnut oil