Making my spoon: help!

Re: Making my spoon: help!

Jim Crammond in Monroe, Mi.

>Ray,

I've done a little reading about making spoons lately, both on the internet and in books by Drew Langsner and Roy Underhill, and the most commonly used method seems to be with a short, fixed blade knife or one with a hook on the end of the blade.

I tried my hand at it the other night and an incannel gouge worked well for me. So maybe you first thought was correct, you need more tools.

Jim

Re: Making my spoon: help!

Carl Smith

>Just a thought. I recently finished a picture stand, using all hand tools. To create the grooves that receive the plexiglass, I fashioned a scratch stock, which was held in a piece of scrap wood. I'm wondering if you rounded a piece of hacksaw blade and put a burr on it, if you couldn't scrape out the bowl. I'll give it a try myself next time in the shop.

cj

Re: Making my spoon: help!

Don Thompson - Cutler Ridge, Florida

>Ne' Mo' Tools. (hits forehead with palm) NOW I get it.

I do not have any of these, but maybe they would help:

Re: Making my spoon: help!

Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX

>Our wilderness hero appears to be using a 1" + #7 or #9 gouge. Great job on getting started.

Pam

Re: Making my spoon: help!

Greg B�tit, Vergennes, VT

>I'd go with a 8 sweep 20mm gouge to begin with, maybe a spoon or swan neck if you want/need to go deep. The curved carving knives work, but they're pretty slow going with the harder woods- which I find make the best spoons.

Greg

Re: Making my spoon: help!

Ernie Miller Topeka

>I started out with a 3/4" gouge and a mallet and roughed out the bowl I did that first. Then I used a small bent carving gough Birthday present to myself. THen I used a couple blades out of some round planes as a scraper to clean it up a little. Then in the end I hit it with sand paper untill the buzzer went off. I made mine more of a ladle than a spoon because they said it needed to hold enough for a pancake. I don't eat silver dollar pancakes. I used the saw alot the back saw cut off the corners and shaped the bowl outside. I used an Atkis rip saw to cut the handle down to 1/2" squair the rest was done with spoke shave chisels and rasps. I should have taken one more picture of it after all the saw cuts. With out a gouge or a round scraper it is going to be real tough. scrapers can be made from old saw blades.