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Spoons, spoon making and how we make them Spoons, wooden ones, can be mass-manufactured and made very cheaply once you have your design, the mechanism it takes to make them…
Spoons, spoon making and how we make them Spoons, wooden ones, can be mass-manufactured and made very cheaply once you have your design, the mechanism it takes to make them…
The Art of Making Spoons This is a part of series I am about to launch. It’s not just about spoon making though, it’s about working in your own business,…
…on one or two. Sometimes, when I am making something as simple as a spoon, people question why I do it. Well, my answer is always the same, spoons and…
Chopping spoons with axes versus other hand tools and vice-versa I think spoon making is one of those remarkably simple woodworking tasks that become even more remarkably simple with the…
Starting out on your own? Start out with spoons A few weeks ago in Penrhyn Castle I split some logs for some spoons. Phil the gardener and groundsman saves culls…
…to combine making more demanding projects with higher paying work like making products that take very little skill but people want to buy. I see slabs of wood with waney…
…of spoons I’ve carved in my lifetime and every single one carved by hand I recalled in some previous articles I wrote how a man I taught to carve wonderfully…
…by them. You can of course do much more than carve spoons from it but spoons are fine too. I once designed a pie point table 6′ in diameter and…
Every so often you get asked to do something that’s just a shade out of the norm or absolutely not the norm. Making spoons is quite normal for me and…
…my furniture making become lifetime spoons, spatulas, garlic boards and much more. Of course as a furniture maker I am using slabbed wood and not riven and split limbs. The…