How To Finish A Hand Carved Spoon

All my products have a knife finish because it leaves a nice smooth hand made look.
How to finish a hand carved spoon. Next I dry off the excess oil and apply a coat of paste wax. Carve away with your carving knife on the side and back. Congratulations now you have a finished spoon made only with hand tools.
Use it for a touch up on spoons it is a finish that builds up layers fast. Once the paste wax has dried then the surface can be buffed off and shined up. It is expensive to get enough to soak the spoons in it.
Sand your spoon to 220-grit then apply a nontoxic oil finish eg. Oct 1 2017 - Information about how Martin Damen finishes hand carved Oak spoons. Butcher block olive peanut or vegetable oil.
Once you have the inside roughly carved out use a pencil to draw the shape you want on the side of the spoon to the outer edge and back. For my standard spoon finishing I cut the tung oil 5050 with a citrus based. Wooden spoons should be hand washed with regular soap and water.
In this video I give a quick overview of the methods I generally use to achieve a great finish on my spoons. Tung oil is my finish of. So the only way I use sand paper is to sharpen my knives and axe.
Most of these are going to be some sort of oil or oil combination usually wax. There is quite a bit more science behind this. Water absorbs much quicker through the end of the fibers so soak a spoon for a day or two in a plastic bucket shoe-box sized tubs work great any iron will react with the wood.