How To Make A Spoon Carving Knife

Some people call them hook knives or bent blades.
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Available in hollow ground or flat ground. My second spoon is also made of Chinaberry. It needs to be sharp and hold a good edge all the knives I mention below will do that and all except the Frost come ready to use.
I carved the bowl first by drilling a hole with the tip of the knife and then carving around the inside edge until it was deeper and wider. If youre using a knife aim to create a clean edge around the bowl and employ a scooping twisting action to carve. A spoon carving knife is the tool to have when carving spoons bowls and kuksa cups.
You can either cut it from a block of wood or purchase a pre cut blank. Loving Spoonful So Much Fun I Had To Make Another. Refining the interior of the spoon bowl.
3 lengths and 2 handle options available or just the blank. Its the tool youll need to hollow out the bowl of the spoon though some makers prefer using hot embers to do this as Michael Dammer recommends below Ive yet to try this method though. Keep removing material digging out wood closer and closer to the outer wall of your spoon.
Something I noticed about the handle is that both ends have rounded tapered edges which is a pretty. The curvature of the blade is important tight curves and short blades are easy for beginners to use but leave a bit of a ploughed field effect which most resort to sandpaper to remove. This is about as straightforward as you can get with a spoon carving knife.