What is steam bending? Wood is mainly cellulose and lignin. Lignin is thermo-plastic. If you heat it up, it gets squishy, letting you change its shape. If you hold it in that shape while it cools, it’ll stay that way. Exposing wood to steam and clamping it to a form allows you to add curves

Hollow grinding for edge tools is nothing new (ever seen one of those old-timey hand-cranked bench grinders?), but it has recently become a bit of a trend in the greenwoodworking world, and for good reason. Let’s have a look at the terminology, available Jigs, as well as the practical advantages and disadvantages of hollow grinding

Zed is known for his great interviews under the nickname Zed Outdoors. So here’s an interview with the guy who normally interviews people. And he is actually not outdoors as we speak but at his home in London, UK. I’m curious, how did Zed Outdoors start?I’m a city boy, born and raised in London. About

Up until November 2020 I had no idea that people carved spoons by hand. Earlier that fall, my family and I had purchased a cabin in the mountains of West Virginia and during the final walk through I noticed a standing dead tree near the cabin that had to come down.  I decided to fell

Green woodworking is a method and philosophy of woodworking starting with green wood, and usually using only hand tools /edge tools. Historically, most woodworking was carried out this way until the advent of industrial capitalism.  Many people start out green woodworking by learning to carve spoons and other treen – useful, small items made of

A short clip from Instagram with some tips and techniques on axing out spoon blanks.Feel free to drop a comment or your questions. Enjoy! https://thespooncrank.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Log-to-spoon_blank.mov