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How to Carve a Bowl – By Matt Day
June 14, 2022
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Making a small bowl If you’ve made some spoons and wanted to try a bowl, these small ones are a good place to start. They are possible with a more limited tool set and
A guide to harvesting tree bark
April 17, 2022
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So, you want to have a go at making a woven bark sheath, or perhaps try you hand at some basket weaving? Getting hold of traditional, natural materials for making your own things can
How to Oil a Spoon – Interview with Nils Stormlod
October 6, 2021
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The fingers method 1) Pour a little bit of oil into your hand and rub the oil into the spoon with your fingers. 2) Wipe off any excess oil with a piece of tissue.
Sharpening your carving knives using The Spoon Crank’s sharpening system with Will Priestley Woodcraft
September 18, 2021
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In this video, Will Priestley share his take on how to get your carving knives sharp with the new sharpening system from The Spoon Crank.
Beware Of These Six Tool Sharpening Mistakes Beginners Make
June 8, 2021
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Lots of folks that enjoy carving don’t seem to enjoy sharpening quite so much. I kind of understand that. These folks are interested in carving, not sharpening. Blunt tools are an unfortunate byproduct of
How to – Woven Bark Knife Sheath
May 5, 2021
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Let me guess, you’ve bought a Mora 106 and it keeps falling out of the crappy plastic sheath it comes with? Or perhaps you just think these bark sheaths look amazing and want to
Steam-Bent Blanks
April 7, 2021
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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
Why hollow grind?
March 19, 2021
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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
How to – The Feather Spoon
January 20, 2021
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1. Split the wood tangentially. The top side of the spoon will be ‘bark-side up’. Important when making the billet that the rings on the handle end are even either side of the centre or
Kolrosing Equipment, Materials and Applying a Design
June 7, 2020
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Equipment and Materials I Use for Kolrosing: Mechanical pencil: for drawing the design Eraser: to remove pencil marks Bendable ruler: keep pencil lines straight Kolrosing knife: cut the designs in Crushed coffee: kolrosing pigment
Spoon tools
April 24, 2020
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Spoon carving is a bit more ‘refined’ than crudely making one and in our shared interest of craft I will focus on specific tools that are used to carve wooden spoons. An axe. A