How To Turn A Wooden Spoon On A Lathe
Hillhouse began his creation by sandwiching a piece of brightly colored paduak between two pieces of walnut which he then offset on his lathe for multi-axis turning in order to achieve a distinct pattern for his spoons.
How to turn a wooden spoon on a lathe. Spoons spoons spoons everybody is getting into carving spoons. I use a five or six quarter stock 1-14 or 1-12 inch and draw the spoon on the wood with a magic marker. Sand the spoon bowl at this time as the centers will be lost when the blanks are split apart.
First I cut the edges off of my stock turning it into an octagon this makes it easier to turn it into a cylinder on the lathe. Like carving out table legs he then began cutting away the excess wood. Steps to Making Wooden Scoops on a Lathe.
Just made it up as I went along. 4x4x11 10cm x 10cm x 28cm Walnut Smaller blanks can be used to create smaller scoops. This will let you shape the handle of the spoon and then part it off of the lathe.
Materials Needed to Turn a Wooden Scoop. Mount the blank on a woodturning lathe. Hillhouses spoons or scoops began their life as a composite block of wood which were offset on his lathe to get that unique pattern.
Attach a faceplate to the blank using screws. I like to make spoons also but I do it with the lathe. A wooden spoon is turned on a standard wood lathe using offset turning for the handle.
The paper will easily separate and you are left with 2 spoon blanks with the bowls turned. The other end is centered. In this months issue of The Highland Woodturner Phil Colson demonstrates how he turns wooden spoons on his lathe an interesting alternative to carving.