I am Spoon Man !!

Well, made my first spoon.
I had a piece of Poplar, its soft so a good easy wood to learn with. I started with a piece of Holly, it is alot harder to work. I wanted results faster, so go soft wood first if you want to try spoon making.
I have a small good carving set, it does help but not really needed. A sharp fixed blade & maybe a small one would help, & sand paper. It took me about from start to finish 1.5 hours.
And also if useing for eating mixing food etc, use { Cameilla Oil } to apply to the clean wood.
This is a Nontoxic oil that cooks use on there knifes when cooking.
Its something you use if you are an outdoors kinda person that uses say one knife for all small jobs.
Carving, cooking, preparing food, fish,meat etc. It helps carbon knifes from rusting.
It also seals the wood. I had fun on this small project, im now thinking of a bigger spoon when im really hungry !! Shocked

Cheers.

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Last edited by Drummer Dave on Tue Jan 08, 2008 4:45 pm; edited 1 time in total

Very nice DD, I wanna make one.

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Nice work, Drummer Dave Very Happy

eric

Thanks Guys.
There is also another product you can use for sealing the wood.
Its simply called; Salad Bowl Finish. Bees wax & mineral oil. Totaly food safe. Cool

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that is a very very nice spoon. i am actually working on my first spoon myself. i just finished my first bowl today as well Very Happy

Cool

I had a blast doing this. I am buying a Hook Knife tomorrow, lol.
Some people call it a Cook Knife, Bent Knife. Lee Valley has a nice one.
Thats great your doing the spoon/bowl thing. I want to do a bowl after another Spoon.

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hey Dave I must say I am very imprssed, thats a quality spoon! Very well made great post!

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Thanks Max. I had to make another one. A scoop.
The first one is the spoon, so, needed one to " scoop " out all that rabbit stew Smile

The profile for the scoop handle is alittle differant, just to change it up.
I have a wood burning tool so i gave them a marking & names Laughing

turned out alright.
The pics are alittle fuzzy, was in a hurry to snap them & post.

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Once agian Dave, I gotta say great job. Thats some mighty fancy craftsmenship

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"There dosen't look like there's much shelter over in those mountains, but that's the only choice I got right now, this is gonna be a long week" - Les Stroud Arctic

those are awesome Dave my spoon doesnt look anything like those Sad

lol

Wonderful job! And i really like the woodburning. I always hated the smell...but thats because some of the wood i burned was pine(really not good or healthy)

Wow, Drummer Dave! Those are awesome, man Cool

eric

Nice work, Dave. Cool

Time for some rabbit stew. Twisted Evil

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Well Heck, i was thinking & i needed 1 more utensil to complete my Bushman eating things Laughing

I was thinking the handles on my spoon & scoop are short, great for eating, but what about getting over the fire to say.... stir the rabbit stew ?. Kinda hot getting that close so i made a stiring, flap jack flipping thing'a Ma-jig.
I put holes in it so stiring would be alittle easyer & if i wanted just a hunk of meat i could get it & not the juice.
I seen this one at my brothers, so i took a piece of paper & traced it out took it home & took my last piece of Poplar
and cut it out with a hole saw to speed it up alittle. Carved the rest to fit my hand and general shape i wanted.
Turned out kinda cool. Im set for the summer camp cooking in the sticks. No more plastic utensil's for this guy Cool

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Cool stuff, Drummer Dave Cool

eric

Ok guy/gals ... I finished them all and added some leather cordedge. I just cut strips from a scrap piece & used beeswax and coated them, braided them together, then tied them with waxed thread. Great stuff, very strong.
So im all set with my Bushsman Utensils for camping this Summer ! Smile

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those are so awesome man i need to get myself some propper wood carving tools to make some of this stuff
good job DDave

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Thanks Dude Cool

Do you have a Lee Valley in your area ? if so, they sell a good starter set of carving tools for about $ 21.00 ? ... the set has 5 tools i think.

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no i live way up in northern alberta i dont have any good stores here lol thats why i have to make alot of my stuff or wait until i go to edmonton again lol

	NorthernHunter wrote:
	no i live way up in northern alberta i dont have any good stores here lol thats why i have to make alot of my stuff or wait until i go to edmonton again lol

> Can you say .. ROAD TRIP !!! Laughing

I was in Calgary last summer visiting a girl/friend,... i love Jasper. I want to go there in the early summer & camp.
There is so much to do there in the outdoors.

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