ONE OF A KIND HAND CARVED WOODEN SPOONS

One of a Kind Hand Carved Wooden Spoons
Over the years I have hand carved literally hundreds of wooden spoons and other utensils like spatulas and salad fork sets.
I really enjoy making them. It’s a wood working project that is not all about machines. I rough them out of firewood size pieces of local mostly tight grained woods (cherry, maple, walnut) with a bandsaw but then I sit on a stool and go at them with chisels, rasps, rifflers, sanding blocks and scrapers. It’s not noisy. I listen to music, meditate, think and whittle away. It’s time well spent. I can do a small spoon in about and hour from wood I have prepped at hand. In woodworking terms getting a finished product in that amount of time is extremely fast and concise. It gives me fairly immediate creative satisfaction. I even use “making a spoon” as a warm up exercise for larger more intense projects.
Any of these wooden utensils are available for $20. and up.

~ by gwcollins on March 3, 2008.