How To Carve A Celtic Love Spoon

How to Carve a Traditional Celtic Love-Spoon.

How to carve a celtic love spoon. Welsh love spoons gouges. The custom of carving Welsh Love Spoons originated in the rural areas of Wales. Everlasting love Vine Twist.

Step 4 Scoop Out the Inside of the Spoon. Regardless of your skills and background even if you have never used a wood carving tool before we have videos to help you develop the skill required for wood carving and lovespoon carving. To carve the spoon bowl a curved gouge is selected usually from various sizes and with the use of a mallet chips away at the wood with the grain.

It is time to congratulate yourself on completing a beautiful Welsh love spoon. Another option is a tool called the bent-bladed knife. Step 1 Wood Roughout.

Making lovespoons can be a great project for anyone who is interested in wood but also for schools colleges and any groups interested in arts crafts and design. Good luck and good fortune. I love learning to carve.

Step 3 Round the Bottom of the Spoon. In the spoon in the photo I followed the stain with three coats of lacquer. Step 5 Shape the Handle.

This is just one step toward learning something newFor this I mostly just use a small bench chisel but I also have an exacto a c. Our love will grow Three Link Chain. It is relatively soft for a hardwood and very close and even grained making it ideal for carving.