How To Carve A Spoon With Just A Knife
Generally a right handed person uses a right handed hook or sweep.
How to carve a spoon with just a knife. Use a drawknife or handsaw to shape three large chamfers two on each side and one on the end. Use a spokeshave to round over the edges of the facets. I used a section of Poplar that was like a triangular wedge split from a piece of firewood.
I provide training and workshops for people to learn how to use just an axe a wood carving knife and a spoon knife to make spoons and other treen. A few folk however prefer to push the tool away using the opposite hands thumb this would mean a right handed person would use a left handed hook. Whittling is an old carving style primarily done with the use of a stiff-handled whittling knife.
I carved the bowl first by drilling a hole with the tip of the knife and then carving around the inside edge until it was deeper and wider. In this video ill show you how to carve a wood spoon using only your knife. Workshops from two hours to two days can be tailored to your requirements.
The hook knife can cut or it can scrape out the bow and bring it almost to its finished smoothness. I carved this spoon using only the Mora in the photo. Identify the four types of wood carving.
To get into spoon carving you dont need more than a regular carving knife and a hook knife to make a beautiful work of art. Is it possible to carve a usable spoon in 10 Minutes with a Victorinox Swiss Army KnifeIn this video i show you a special technique how to carve the concav. Available for small groups 1-2-1 training and events.
Carving a simple spoon can be done in as little as 30 minutes but if you want to carve a spoon with lots of intricate details it could take you several days to a week to complete. Once the bowl is shaped I can come in with a hook knife and clean out all of the facets left from the carving gouge. In this video ill show you how to carve a wood spoon using only your knife.