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Everyone can, and should carve a wooden spoon. This Instructable will show you how to get started carving your very own spoon and hopefully answer so...
I'm going to share my process for spoon carving in this Instructable. It's by no means the official way to do it, or even, a carving purists way to d...
The most important thing to first consider when carving a spoon is the type of wood that you're going to use. While it's possible to carve virtually ...
Once you've selected your block of wood (I'm using Cherry in the example below) draw a very rough outline of the spoon that you'd like to carve. It n...
If the spoon you want to carve is smaller than the piece of wood you've selected, use the table saw to cut the chunk into a thinner piece so you have ...
Next, use a scroll saw to cut along your outline. I tried to cut as close to my spoon sketch as possible since that's less material to remove later. ...
This step is completely optional, but since it was sitting right next to me, I used the belt sander to quickly round over the edges on the spoon and s...
Finally, let's make some wood shavings! Now at the very beginning it's useful just to get a feel for the knife and how it removes material from your ...
As the spoon begins to take shape and you begin to round over some of the straight lines in the blank, it's time to start adding in more detail and ma...
Once you've roughed out the handle of the spoon it's time to start working on the head. I found it easier to start with the convex back of the spoon ...
On to the concave side of the spoon - use a rounded sweep gouge or hook knife to start removing material from the face of the spoon. Remove small bit...
After extensive hand carving it was time to smooth out the carving marks with some sanding. I used a small drum hand sanding attachment for a rotar...
After the mechanical sanding came a bunch of detail hand sanding. Starting with 120 grit paper and working my way up to 220 incrementally, I sanded...
As a final step, apply a food-safe protective finish to the smoothly sanded spoon. I used a product called "Emmet's Good Stuff" which is a food saf...
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