Category: How To’s

This is a series of photos that I thought might help folk wanting to understand spoon carving forms. Below is a spoon I did for Norman Stevens’ spoon collection, it is carved in almond wood – which is so dense I did not need to use a bent branch to make a strong spoon. The…

To help folk see the cross section of a spoon I carved one of basswood – then split it in two (above 3 pics) – so now you can see inside a spoon’s structure. This page is for those who have our spoon carving package. I scanned these pictures of spoons I have carved using…

Here’s my first Youtube tutorial, it’s on how to rough out a spoon with a hook knife, shown is a basswood blank, it cuts about like green birch. or links to other tutorials  Notice how in carving the spoons’ back the knife is pushed along by the left hand(bottom) fingers. This is a most important…