How To Make Wooden Spoons With Hand Tools
Some spoon makers turn a blank on the lathe.
How to make wooden spoons with hand tools. A curved card scraper makes short work of smoothing out the bowl. Mark a pattern of a spoon on a board. My Process for Making Spoons.
Bandsaw to cut to rough shape and to remove a lot of excess material. Set your depth gauge to drill just 38 into the blank. After using the burrs I clean up the tool marks with the hand held spoon bent gouge using light finishing cuts.
Drill presses are usually 1 HP and without a clamp you will not be able to keep the large bit from spinning the blank out of your hands. It is easier with one of these tools to make a deeper bowl in a spoon than you can with spoon bent gouges. In this video Paul Sellers shows how to make a wooden spoon with a few simple hand tools.
This video was sponsored by Squarespace. I was finishing my graduate work in Texas and I had been working wood with hand tools for the past couple years. Possible dimensions for your wooden spoon.
Spoon carving is a bit more refined than crudely making one and in our shared interest of craft I will focus on specific tools that are used to carve wooden spoons. Sand paper 80 120 and 400. Use card scrapers to remove tool marks and tearout.
Step 3 Cut the spoon out on the bandsaw. My tools are hand forged reconstructions of viking tools. It just needs to be sharp.