Est. 1998 — 27 years of woodworking knowledge
yet another spoon...
Darrell in Oakville
>Hi all,
I read with much interest about this "make a sppon in an hour" project. Cool. I bet I could do that. So here we go...
I started with a piece of paper birch firewood and one of my wife's good spoons as a model. I got out a drawknife, figuring this would be a good way to shape the stock. The time was 15:30.
Darrell
Wood Hoarder, Blade Sharpener, and Occasional Tool User
Re: yet another spoon...
Darrell in Oakville
>OK, here it is at 15:35.
I roughly flattened one end of the stock, traced the model spoon, and roughed out the depression for the bowl. This birch works pretty easily with the gouges.
Darrell
Wood Hoarder, Blade Sharpener, and Occasional Tool User
Re: yet another spoon...
Darrell in Oakville
>15:50 hrs
I've got the baskside of the bowl roughed out now. The drawknife makes fast work of wasting the excess wood. I started using the spokeshave once I got close enough that the drawknife was endagering my efforts. I've started thinning down the handle a bit too.
I went and dug out the shaving pony and mounted it in the vise so I could hold the work better.
Darrell
Wood Hoarder, Blade Sharpener, and Occasional Tool User
Re: yet another spoon...
Darrell in Oakville
>16:00 hrs
It's starting to look like a spoon!
If I was camping, this is where I would stop. But if SWMBO is actually gonna use this, I need to refine it a bit more. I'm using mostly the spokeshave now, only grabbing the drawknife if I find the shave working too slowly on a section.
Darrell
Wood Hoarder, Blade Sharpener, and Occasional Tool User
Re: yet another spoon...
Darrell in Oakville
>16:10 hrs
I'm down to scraping now. It looks good enough to me, so I wandered over to the lathe where SWMBO was turning a pen, and asked her if it was good enough. "Too heavy" she says. Hmmm... Back to the spokeshave I guess.
Darrell
Wood Hoarder, Blade Sharpener, and Occasional Tool User
Re: yet another spoon...
Darrell in Oakville
>16:20 hrs
I thinned down the bowl a bit more, scraped the whole thing down, and sanded it with some 220 grit paper. "I'll cook with that" she says.
Done! Whew, still got time to spare, which I use to put away the tools.
This was a fun little project. I can see where a lot of our firewood is gonna end up in the kitchen this Christmas ;^)
Darrell
Wood Hoarder, Blade Sharpener, and Occasional Tool User
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David Hammond, in Powder Springs GA
>Nice spoon, and inside an hour to boot! Killer looking shave you've got there as well.
David
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Derek Cohen (in Perth, Australia)
>VERY impressive Darrell.
No way I'm going to try my hand here!
Regards from Perth
Derek
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Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX
>Wow, a spoon that will be used in record time. Contrats.
Pam
Darrel is that shave the LV kit one? nm
Bob Fawcett
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Re: Darrel is that shave the LV kit one? nm
Darrell in Oakville
>Ayup, that's the LV wooden shave kit, with a cocobolo body. T'was a gift from my Galoot Santa. It's in the running for "fave shave" status in my shop. Sure worked nice on that birch.
Darrell
Wood Hoarder, Blade Sharpener, and Occasional Tool User
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Brad in Ottawa
>Great job Darrell! BTW, glad you found a way to get your spokeshave in the shot!
Brad
Re: Pam asked for tool list...
Darrell in Oakville
>Let me see now... tools, eh?
Well, the log was split with a froe, the blank was trimmed to length with a handsaw, and the bulk of the waste was removed with a drawknife.
I used a 1 inch gouge to rough out the bowl, followed by a couple of carving chisels to make it mostly smooth. A french curve shaped scraper cleaned up the last of the tool marks.
I used a spokeshave and a convex curved scraper to finish off the outside of the bowl and the handle. And finally, a piece of 220 grit sandpaper to smooth the wood.
There ya go, Ellis.
Darrell
Wood Hoarder, Blade Sharpener, and Occasional Tool User
Thanks, Darrell
Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX
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