A simple wooden spoon for sculpture is a great project to make as Sylviculture. The first wooden spoon can take many hours to do, but the end result is a beautiful and functional tool perfectly suited to the outdoors. Hand carved tablespoons eating can be pure and simple or complex and beautiful. Welsh love spoons are a traditional gift to present to your beloved, complete with hearts decorated and elegantly crafted handles. Whatever the style, spoon carving is an absorption of the past time and a great way to gain the confidence of carving knife and general work.
What You Will Need
Based on the maximum level you can carve a spoon with no more than a hardy bushcraft knife. Personally I used the knife training of mora.It's convenient, strong, sharpens well and holds a good margin.The handle is a comfortable rubber grip and tang knife spans the entire length of the handle. avoid bending pen knives, knives with serrated edges and handles inappropriate. spoon carving, especially the first time, is a project extended and you will end up with bubbles by a knife inadequate.
Some other tools are also a good idea to simplify the process, as well as some safety equipment.
The knife bushcraft-make sure it's small folding saw sharpA, such as a pruning sawA spoon gougeA pencilA very well stocked first aid kit To companion, in the event of accidents-never build alone!
None of these are horribly expensive and owning them opens a wide range of possible Sylviculture.
Getting started-choice of wood
In general they are looking for a piece of wood of straight grained dense, with no nodes. I used silver birch to good effect; wood is a lovely pale yellow, sweet taste due to sugars lymph, divides easily along the grain and carves easily without fibre selvedges. Ideally, you will be able to cut the exact desired piece from a tree of life, of course with the permission of landowners.
For the first spoon I suggest that you choose a piece about the thickness of the wrist. The temptation is to choose a piece too large, which will be much more difficult to split initially and will need much more spoon-shaped sculpture revealing. use your saw folding to shorten the piece slightly longer final spoon.
Split the wood
The spoon will finally be carved from a half of this piece of wood. First you need to divide the log down its length, along the centre line.An effective way to do this, if you are confident with the knife, is to put the piece of wood on its end, on a block of Division or rock. carefully blade of the knife rest up, along the direction that you want to split, then hit the back of the blade a couple times with another piece of wood. now press down hard with one hand on the handle and struck the rear of the blade tough with the second piece of wood.With practice and for which you have chosen a piece as described above, should be able to split the wood clean along the grain with minimal effort.
Now you have two matching pieces.Now is the ability to inspect indeed wood;If you saw any future problems as nodes that have been hidden, that piece of discard and try another.A few minutes more spent choosing the wood right now will save you much effort and heartbreak later!
If you are satisfied with the piece, now is the time to begin sculpting. first, use the knife to make splitting flat surface, smooth and level. If you leave uneven now can have the finished product.
Draw the outline of the spoon
Now is the first opportunity to get really creative.Use the flat surface to paint, pencil sketch, top view of your spoon. at this stage it is not too worried about the appearance of the profile. try to think of what you wish for. is simply decorative? are you looking for a spoon to eat functional? a ladle to serve? or even a salad serving set? do you want to add any simple embellishments to the handle?
What ever, for the first spoon I suggest that you start with something simple and small.
Start removing material
Your aim in this phase is to remove the material quickly and efficiently as possible remove the excess wood. you don't have to worry about the side profile, simply work to lines that was designed to get the perfect top view.
A good trick to remove large quantities of material quickly is to use the knife to split away excess. before using the saw to cut a notch down until the desired depth, then carefully align the knife and select until the excess falls away. you can then complete the work of detail to be transferred via what remains.
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