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Old 11-09-2007, 07:42 AM
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Default Spoon carvers?

I carve spoons. I enjoy it so much that I can't help but wonder why there aren't more spoon carvers out there. This post is an attempt to find them! (and show off a little work, too). Del Stubs over at pinewood forge has put together a great listing of various spoon carvers from the world over, but it is a small list compared with the number of woodworkers.

My spoons are generally decorative in nature only, and they're mostly power carved. I bandsaw the rough shapes and then go at them with various other tools - spokeshaves if I want a straight handle, power carving bits if I want to get curvy. Finish type is dictated by the intended use of the spoon and the type of wood. They're sold in local galleries along with my fancy letter openers.

Anybody else here carve spoons?









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Old 11-09-2007, 08:20 AM
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Your spoons are beautiful and show off great woods and ideas. Glad to see them. I've carved 6 spoons myself, and enjoy them, but they have not been as fine as yours.
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Old 11-09-2007, 09:19 AM
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Welcome aboard. Good topic, spoons are so simple and functionable, and can be made to be so flowing and decorative. I've only done one myself, but I'm sure there are more in the future. Just so many things to carve and only one lifetime to do them all in! Nice work by the way.

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Beautiful spoons. I haven't carved any yet, but these certainly tempt me.
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Old 11-09-2007, 12:05 PM
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Thoes are some great looking spoons ... Your selection in the carvers gallery are also wonderful ..

Never tried it but someday ..

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My spoons are not quite as nice as yours, The patterns come from Shirley Adlers book or Celtic Carved Lovespoons by Sharon Littley and Clive Griffon
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a few more
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Here's a couple I chip carved.
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Old 11-11-2007, 08:55 PM
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Default Re: Spoon carvers?

Hiya Schwingding.

I have made a few, mostly for female family members, but the only one I can come up with right now is this one:

(Darn, I don't know how to insert the pic)

Okaaaay, well, the wood is cherry burl from a tree in the backyard of my sister's old house. The spoon has a rounded bowl, roughly inch and a quarter, and is about 4 1/4" long. If I wasn't such a computer dimwit, you could look at the picture.

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NIce looking spoons one and all.

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