I actually started my first spoon carving in apple wood branches, it was what I had on hand, but it was dry and I really had no idea what I was doing. I enjoyed myself but it was a lot of work for spoons I ended up mostly burning later. Once I started with green Aspen I was amazed how much faster and easier it was to carve! Still learning but I am now saving my apple wood till I am a better carver/sharpener as I just love the look and feel of it in the end.
I microwave dried a canoe spoon for too long by accident and only caught it when I smelled smoke. It scorched the bowl. Upside is, it polished perfectly and gave the spoon the most unique coloring! It's used daily, and has no burnt flavor at all, and is smooth a glass. Best spoon accident to date for me.
A great thing to do with spoons that are sanded ( some customers prefer the look), is to work from 150-220-400 grit. Then to make is glass smooth, I use 3000 grit rubbed fast to burnish it. You'll feel it grip when it's applied with pressure. Makes it look polished and shiny.
Thanks Zed! The short handle just did not cut it. As far as tool handles go, I never try to make them nice, just useable. Anything to take away some of the fatigue while carving.
Jeff Ballantyne wow nice craft I was stuck for carving different spoons I bought barn the spoon book that was a real jem of a book highly recommended greetings from UK England Essex fellow carver 💕👌🐾🐺
some very nice spoon mister! but i wonder how you carve the inner surfaces of the spoons? do you use a typical spoon carving knife with a curved blade?
You said they'll be some of the longest lasting in apple. I don't doubt it...they use apple teeth in the Crown wheel at our local windmill so they have to be strong!
nice video Jeff, im new to spoon carving and so my question is what do you use to make the spoons food safe, and can you use any type of wood and use it?
Check out my other video on what wood types to use for spoons! I use Tung oil, and once its cured it is food safe. Bees wax and mineral oil finish dont last long, but they are food safe, and more commonly found. Thanks for the comment though morneb2000
I'm new to spoon carving and really interested in trying my hand at ,,, I've all ready got some of the tools. I'm just now sending in a order to ''deepwoods ventures'' for a couple knives that I need to start with. thanx for the great vidios, they are very informative.
No problem Randy Huffman . Microwave drying just helps the outside dry enough to get that shiny finish I like. Pop your spoon in for about 15 - 20 seconds and let it cool down, and you can repeat that process a few times to help dry up a spoon for finishing. Any more and it will most likely crack a bit.
Phill Allen Im sure many fruit woods are very similar to apple. I'm sure if you looked hard enough you could find someone who has a sick apple tree that isnt producing fruit that you could take!
I would guess you are microwaving in the kitchen so you might want to try weighing your spoon first then microwaving. The weight should start to drop as you loose moisture. When the weight stays the same you are done and the spoon is at equilibrium..
Sometimes I only let the outside of the spoon dry so I can get a decent finish, of if you were to sand your spoon you can just dry it enough to sand it. I know what you mean though, and I've done that sometimes. I havent found it necessary though to completely dry a spoon in that manner.
I play at wood turning and that is were I saw the weigh and microwave the item. I also know some bowl turners boil the bowls to reduce the chance of cracking but I don't know why they use salt in the water to boil spoons and kuksa's
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I actually started my first spoon carving in apple wood branches, it was what I had on hand, but it was dry and I really had no idea what I was doing. I enjoyed myself but it was a lot of work for spoons I ended up mostly burning later. Once I started with green Aspen I was amazed how much faster and easier it was to carve! Still learning but I am now saving my apple wood till I am a better carver/sharpener as I just love the look and feel of it in the end.
I microwave dried a canoe spoon for too long by accident and only caught it when I smelled smoke. It scorched the bowl. Upside is, it polished perfectly and gave the spoon the most unique coloring! It's used daily, and has no burnt flavor at all, and is smooth a glass. Best spoon accident to date for me.
A great thing to do with spoons that are sanded ( some customers prefer the look), is to work from 150-220-400 grit. Then to make is glass smooth, I use 3000 grit rubbed fast to burnish it. You'll feel it grip when it's applied with pressure. Makes it look polished and shiny.
Great tips on the apple wood Jeff and really liking the rehandling job on the mora, very cool ~Peace~
Thanks Zed! The short handle just did not cut it. As far as tool handles go, I never try to make them nice, just useable. Anything to take away some of the fatigue while carving.
Jeff Ballantyne wow nice craft I was stuck for carving different spoons I bought barn the spoon book that was a real jem of a book highly recommended greetings from UK England Essex fellow carver 💕👌🐾🐺
Zed outdoors hell yeah agreed totally dude 🐺🐾:-) 👍
some very nice spoon mister! but i wonder how you carve the inner surfaces of the spoons? do you use a typical spoon carving knife with a curved blade?
Tobias hunger he uses a hook knife great tool highly recommended from Mora 🐺🐾:-) 👍
I have a few of the types of woods you speak of, here at my place, apple, birches, shuemack (sp) thanx again
You said they'll be some of the longest lasting in apple. I don't doubt it...they use apple teeth in the Crown wheel at our local windmill so they have to be strong!
That's really interesting.
nice video Jeff, im new to spoon carving and so my question is what do you use to make the spoons food safe, and can you use any type of wood and use it?
Check out my other video on what wood types to use for spoons! I use Tung oil, and once its cured it is food safe. Bees wax and mineral oil finish dont last long, but they are food safe, and more commonly found. Thanks for the comment though morneb2000
Nice grain and great tips. Have you used Bradford pear? I use it since I've got 2 trees. It darkens to a light walnut.
I have not! I look forward to carving some pear and plum! I get pretty excited when given the chance to carve something new
The grain tears a little.
I'm new to spoon carving and really interested in trying my hand at ,,, I've all ready got some of the tools. I'm just now sending in a order to ''deepwoods ventures'' for a couple knives that I need to start with. thanx for the great vidios, they are very informative.
Thanks for sharing brother. Never did microwave drying. Sounds interesting.
No problem Randy Huffman . Microwave drying just helps the outside dry enough to get that shiny finish I like. Pop your spoon in for about 15 - 20 seconds and let it cool down, and you can repeat that process a few times to help dry up a spoon for finishing. Any more and it will most likely crack a bit.
Thanks for the tip bud.
Very nice video, Jeff! Subscribed :)
Nice work again Jeff I love to try Apple wood but we don't get it here its always on private land so not readly available
Phill Allen Im sure many fruit woods are very similar to apple. I'm sure if you looked hard enough you could find someone who has a sick apple tree that isnt producing fruit that you could take!
Where did you buy the green compound? Is all green compound the same grit regardless of the brand?
There's different colors for different grits!
@@lotsofwoods There are different colors for different grits.....
nice. good video
I would guess you are microwaving in the kitchen so you might want to try weighing your spoon first then microwaving. The weight should start to drop as you loose moisture. When the weight stays the same you are done and the spoon is at equilibrium..
Sometimes I only let the outside of the spoon dry so I can get a decent finish, of if you were to sand your spoon you can just dry it enough to sand it. I know what you mean though, and I've done that sometimes. I havent found it necessary though to completely dry a spoon in that manner.
I play at wood turning and that is were I saw the weigh and microwave the item. I also know some bowl turners boil the bowls to reduce the chance of cracking but I don't know why they use salt in the water to boil spoons and kuksa's
salt aparently helps slow the drying speed, thus stabilizing the wood. who knows though lol
:-)
apple wood nice look spoon
👄 thanks jeff....
applewood is tough 😋
good to make lovespoons
I happen to enjoy the "branch" spoon...defects and all (if those can be called defects :-) )
I do too! There are some great grain features from the branch spoon. Thanks for the comment Joyce Judd !
You drove me nuts with your speech.....mmmmmm....aahhh......mmmm....you killed me Jeff.
Mumbling,stumbling.
Carve. Less talk.