Spoons & Forks

Re: Spoons & Forks

Mike Rubes, Apex, NC

>Hi Brad,

I cannot help you with this, but like you I would like some tips and pointers on how to create the spoon part.

Someone out there must be a spoon maker? Any tips to share?

Thanks,

Mike

Working late sucks in Apex, NC...

Re: Spoons & Forks

William R. Duffield on the Cohansey

>In general, you could use the same types of tools you would use to hollow the seat of a Windsor Chair, including a scorp, travisher and inshave, or you could use carving gouges or rifflers (curved rasps) followed by curved card scrapers or sandpaper, or you could use an angle grinder or a Dremel with a burr, or you could use a drum sander, followed by a flap sander. You might even be able to use a laminate trimmer with a core box bit, but very carefully. Also, if you could find or make a very small bowl adze, you might save some time on roughing it out.

Here is a link into to Barry Gordon's website. He is a professional spoon maker. His Woodwork magazine Wooden Spoonmaking article explains his methodology and tooling, which obviously works well enough for him to make a living at it. If you download the PDF article, search for the paragrah on Hollowing a Spoon Bowl, about half way through the article.

Spoons & Forks Another way

Phil Joines in Krum, Texas

>You can turn the bowl. Make a face plate twice thd lenth of the spoon. Secure the spoon with the area to be the bowl on center. Hollow it out like a small bowl. Flip it over and round the back. Depending on the size of the handle you may need to add a counter weight to the oposite side of the faceplate.

You can do the fork the same way, just make the bowl larger than the tines need to be so you can cut the rounded side oposite the handle off. Depending on the shape of the tine area you may want to trim the sides too.

Re: Spoons & Forks

Jorge Casta�eda

>Mike,

I made several a few years ago using a small bent gouge, a croked knife, and sand paper, for the inside, the outside was shaped with a utility knife.

Fun project and it does not take that long.

Re: Spoons & Forks *LINK*

Ken Grunke

>I always carve the bowl before anything else, makes it easier to clamp the stock to a bench. I use a 1" half-round gouge and mallet.

Del Stubbs has some info on spoon carving at his site, he doesn't do woodturning anymore but sells carving knives.


Del Stubbs: spoon carving technique