How To Carve Love Spoons

The Lovespoon Workshop is located in the centre of the small hamlet of Cold Inn.

How to carve love spoons. Another option is a tool called the bent-bladed knife. Start carving at the working part of the spoon. For plastic I use the flat sheets of plastic cut from boxes and containers that store bought products come in.

Step 2 Shape the Handle and Back of Spoon. These items are scheduled to be re-cycled. 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.

Directions to The Lovespoon Workshop. 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. Carving a love spoon.

Description CARVING SPOONS 2ND EDITION Spoon carving instructor Shirley Adler will get you started making beautiful spoons to keep for yourself of give away. Step 6 Sand and Finish Your Spoon. Welsh sailors spending many long and lonely hours at sea used the time to carve spoons for the girl that they had left at home.

Step 4 Scoop Out the Inside of the Spoon. My favorite way of carving inside my workshop- more tools easier techniques. Supplies Needed for Spoon Carving.

All you need are a few small scraps of wood and some common carving tools. Pick a hardwood such as walnut cherry or maple for the most durability. Best Beginner Spoon Carving Kit.