How To Carve A Welsh Love Spoon

This one is more appropriate for the love of my life.

How to carve a welsh love spoon. Cwtch means cuddle in Welsh my favorite Welsh word of all time and the heart is made out of Welsh slate. Tools such as small pocket knives and close grain woods such as sycamore were all a love smitten male suitor needed to carve a love spoon. See more ideas about love spoons welsh love spoons carved spoons.

Worked from one piece of wood the open link chain is used to connect the different design pieces. Sailors would spend time at sea making these for their intended sweethearts who was hopefully waiting patien tly for them on a far away shore. In the spoon in the photo I followed the stain with three coats of lacquer.

They were carved by hand with little more than a. See more ideas about love spoons welsh love spoons carved spoons. I promised the full story of the love spoon so here it is.

They probably did it to pass the time as they sailed long distances. A piece of fine sandpaper is then used to. Some believe the tradition begun with sailors that were in long sea voyages far away from loved ones.

Although I have over 100 different chisels I tend to usually only use about 15. Dec 16 2020 - A collection of carved wooden love spoons. On average more than 13 of the time spent making a spoon is spent sanding using three different grits of sandpaper.

In this episode I show you how I tackled the caged ball section of the Welsh Love Spoon. A wide variety of FREE resources to help you make your own lovespoons and learn wood carving and spoon carving are available. A demonstration of hand carving a Welsh love spoon by Dai lovespoons Thomas at The Lovespoon Workshop.