How To Make A Handmade Wooden Spoon
Simple balanced and functional design these wood pieces are meant to last a lifetime.
How to make a handmade wooden spoon. Then it will be wet and workable for 2-4 weeks. With your pencil draw a spoon shape on your piece of wood then cut the shape out with a band saw. Mixture from the jar wipe the spoon down with it and let it sit for 10 or 15 minutes.
Refining the shapes using my random orbit sander. The Wooden Spoons broad and concave bowl enables thorough mixing stirring and tossing of ingredients during prep while the smooth edges ensure it wont scratch up your cookware. The wood you dont use right away you can leave it some high grass.
The spoon pattern shown below can be resized and printed to match your piece of wood. Author Lee H Arten explains how he taught himself how to make his first wooden spoon a gift for his wife-to-be. Heres the spoon after rough cut out.
Mark a pattern of a spoon on a board. I shaped the curved back sides of the guitars using a belt sander clamped upside down to my workbench. For this spoon Im using applewood.
Uh - in the next step using an orange knife we start carving on the handle off this. This didnt take long at all using this tool. Next I used a round carving bit in my rotary tool to carve out the bowls of the spoons.
Pick a location on the board that will allow you to get multiple spoons. Using an ink pad and a sponge apply ink to the stencil by rubbing the sponge in ink and then rubbing over the stencil on the spoon. It needs to be 10-15 cm longer than the spoon you want to make.