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Here's my spoon
Bob Fawcett
>Here is my spoon and what I learned trying this challenge.
I didn't have a log out in the woodshed, and I didn't have any stock the proper size so I made one. This is 2 3/4" pieces laminated together.
I gathered together the tools I have that I thought would be useful.
I got a spoon or 3 out of the kitchen to use for models.
Ok GO.
Re: Here's my spoon
Bob Fawcett
>Here I have shaped a crude bowl and used the pull saw to rough out the shape.
Check out my improvised draw knife. I love vice grips.
Re: Here's my spoon
Bob Fawcett
>OK times up.
Pretty crude huh.
One thing I decided is I need a better way to hold this type of work. The vise on the bench works for some things but not others.
I plan to build the shave pony that William posted the other day.
I also think I could use a spoke shave to great advantage.
I did find after my hour was up that my blockplane works reasonably well as a crude spokeshave.
Re: Here's my spoon
Bob Fawcett
>The blockplane works somewhat as a spokeshave. Unfortunately I discovered this after my hour was up.
Re: Here's my spoon
Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
>I've been watching this challenge from afar. A couple of observations:
1. Taking something like this on can teach how much the tool selection we may have can do for us (I'm very impressed by your drawknife, Bob).
2. The old guys had to learn to use everything very efficiently. I suspect a qualified journey-level woodworker in most trades would see an hour for a spoon as a walk in the park.
Re: Block plane as spokeshave
Pam Niedermayer - Austin, TX
>Dick Prinicke (sp?), our wilderness hero, used a block plane to do the final shaping, too.
Pam
Nice drawknife!
Greg B�tit, Vergennes, VT
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Re: Here's my spoon
Greg B�tit, Vergennes, VT
>Good Job!
I vote that you get the "Necessity Is The Mother Of Invention Award" for the glue-up and especially for the "draw knife".
You also need to be cautioned about the steep slippery spokeshave slope I see up ahead of you.
Greg
Re: Here's my spoon
Bob Fawcett
>You're right about the spokeshave slope. I aleady ordered the kit from Lee Valley. I plan to build the kit and see what it would take to build another from scratch.
I have a couple of pieces of steal just begging to be some kind of tool.
Here is the spoon after some hand sanding, although that fork tailed devil in the corner kept calling out.
This is obviously a traditional Georgia left-handed skew spoon. No more pictures, I promise.
You'll love LV's Spokeshave Kit *LINK*
Greg B�tit, Vergennes, VT
>I have one I made from some birdseye maple. I love it. I especially like the way the blade depth is adjusted.
There are some great "make your own spokeshave" tutorials out there, the most famous probably being John Gunterman's.
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