This has a been a long time project! Over the last month and a bit I've just been slowly whittling and carving my way to a spoon. I saw someone cut down their apple tree from the front yard and asked if I could have a couple logs for things like this as well as meat smoking. It's had a bit of time to dry so that I didn't carve it into shape and have it crack on me. That would of been devastating! But it's finally done and I couldn't be happier.
Edit: a hopefully more spoonier spoon!
p.s. it actually makes more sense to have changed it. Thanks for the hint 😊
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Chunk selected and shaved down with a hatchet
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Starting the bowl
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A bit of tool action and the shape appearing
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Final shape before sanding
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Sanding time
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Sanded, moistened and looking spoon-y
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The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. - Job 1:21
Someone flagged this submission as an edge case BB. BBV price: 0 Note: As with many previous edge case submissions, the bowl of the spoon is not quite what we would expect from a finished spoon. Keep going a little bit more on the eating end! The rest looks good.
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Keep sanding it or use a card scraper or other tool until it's silky smooth. Add another picture to this post, or post again with the additional work and we can probably approve it.
The carving tools I used worked pretty well to hollow out the spoon
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All sanded down
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Before oiling with the tools
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Wooden spoon complete!!!
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1 Thessalonians 5:14-15
Just finished carving a nice little poplar spoon. I guess you can't really call it a first timer spoon since I had carved one before, but I defiantly got some more Whittling experience, which was good.