How To Carve A Green Wood Spoon

Here we see green woodworking expert Justin Sanford demonstrate traditional spoon carving.
How to carve a green wood spoon. The Green Wood Way - YouTube. This can make a dry spoon-blank much easier to carve somewhat approaching the ease of carving green wood. Soaking birch spoon blanks.
Were mostly talking about using whats called green wood versus dry wood. Use a drawknife or handsaw to shape three large chamfers two on each side and one on the end. Carving a spoon can be a meditative job that allows you to take a block of wood and end up with a piece of art.
Justin shares his obvious skill and enthusiasm for this work as he. Carve till you hit harder wood then put it back into the bucket to soak more the. As you use and wash your spoon occasionally re-oil it.
Its ok to carve items from dried wood but its generally easier to carve green wood. Spoon carving will improve a lot of other woodworking skills so its important to learn how to carve a wooden spoon start to finish. If playback doesnt begin shortly try restarting.
You can cut a section of wood and then freeze it to help contain the moisture and greenness. One of my favorite green woodworking techniques is spoon carving and in this video I show you how to carve a spoon from tree to table and what tools you need to carve a spoon whether in your woodshop or sitting by a bonfire in the woods. In this episode I go through the possible finis.
Heres howAmazon link for 3ft crosscut sawhttpsamznt. Axe work A basic kit for green spoon carving is a chopping block a saw an axe or hatchet a straight knife and a bent knife. Sandpaper is seen as cheating but for the non-purists it may be.