Rough shaping done with a carving hatchet, then finished with a few knives. One of the better wood carving videos out there, imo:
I agree. That was a fantastic carving video. I liked his use of a saw for stop cuts, especially the on the bowl. I've never thought to rough out a spoon quite like that and now I'd like to try. Nice axe work as well. Thank you for sharing.
Just finished my first handmade spoon. I just recently got my GB small forest axe and learned about spoon carving. I knew I'd love it. So I started a new tradition this year by making a spoon out of a section of our Christmas Tree truck, and carve the year into it. Here's some pictures of it! Hope you enjoy. This was done just off a whim. Not any sketching or much planning. It was more getting to know my axe, and seeing what would come about. Needless to say, I'm hooked! Tools used: Gransfors Bruks Small Forest Axe Bahco Laplander Mora 164 hook knife Spyderco 220 & 120 grit sand paper Really hot oven <---- whoops (tried to harden) Coconut Oil
I used Walnut. My tool list was a G.B. Wildlife hatchet, SAK Carver and 400 grit sandpaper. The lump on the spoon handle was a small knot that I decided to leave there.
Thank you. Sometimes the wood dictates the end result. I gave those items to my daughter but I honestly wish I still had them. Just like my Bear Bow Recurve. I gave it to my sister for them to use with their padawans and they do use it on the constant but damn I sure do miss that bow.
I've never done a bowl per se, a sort of trough but bowl sized once. More like a small bread pan but it was functional. I might be trying a spoon now though, looks fun! Edit: Now 6:44pm, I have a piece that is somewhat flat and looks more like a spatula. Even though I have a couple of small and very sharp hawks to work with I roughed it out but quickly switched to my RB 3 to shape it. Started with about 6" of straight grain seasoned hickory...was this the wrong wood? To hard maybe? I was having real trouble getting a useful shape with a hawk, the chipping away process was getting altogether too close to my fingers for comfort!