1200 grit is the highest I can buy at our two local hardware shops.

Great video! I do the same periodically, I find if you strop before and after carving you can maintain your edge without having to go to sandpaper all the time! Also I use Veritas green honing compound and it's great. I find it's less waxy then beavercraft or sharpal green compound

That is a very precise looking piece of work. But I don't like the handle much... What kind of wood is it?

I was about to suggest a scorp...

The very first 'spoon' I ever made looks like a scoop. I used a rotary tool and sanding drum and I got a little bit too enthusiastic and sanded off the 'nose'. But I still love it and use it for putting the sugar into my tea.

Home come after 4 years you have no comments?

Great job !! Enjoyed very much

This video is so awesome. It shows both the how and the why. I have watched tens, if not hundreds, of spoon carving videos, and paid for some courses, but this is probably one of the best online tutorials - easy to follow and detailed enough. Emmet, a great spoon carver and also a great teacher, has defined an easy-to-follow process. If you have some experience carving spoons, but are getting stuck at some point of the process, this video is for you. I've taken the time to add timestamps for step of the proccess: Masterclass 1 STEP 1 0:00 rough carving the outline 0:32 carving the outline of the bowl. Hand squeeze thumb push pivot cut, powerful and controlled. 3:07 Carving the outline of the handle 5:07 why carving a rough (not perfect) outline is important, and part of the process 5:52 don't over carve the neck STEP 2 6:17 carving the top face 6:26 the importance of sides at 90 degrees 7:06 correcting twist between the handle and the bowl 7:43 why is important to carve the top face before the bottom face 8:34 carving the bowl top face. Pivot push cut 10:42 different pivot grip to cut the other side of the bowl top face 12:30 pistol grip to cut the top face of the shoulder of the bowl. 14:08 carving the top of the handle, top profile options. 16:28 carving a "bump down" to isolate the bowl rim from the handle top STEP 3 17:29 carving the bottom 17:44 Bottom of the bowl: carving the middle to establish the profile 18:45: doing the rim 19:44 blend the facets of the front of the bowl 20:10 carving the back of the handle Now we have the roughly carved spoon! STEP 4 22:55 redraw the shape and regain the symmetry. 23:35 redrawing process: neck first, bowl and handle realignment. 28:03 carving around the bowl first 28:48 do the handle before the back shoulders of the bowl

What inclusive angle should a carving axe be sharpened to? I did 15 degrees each side (inclusive 30 degrees) on my Tormek and the edge crumbled the first time I used it.

So helpful! 🙏🏽

Very nice! I enjoyed it. Encore! Encore!

Thanks for such a detailed view into your carving process! I just started carving spoons and I feel like this will help a lot into taking my carving to the next level. Cheers !

I know this is an old video, but how'd you get the dividers out of the inside of the box? I got the ones out of the top right drawer easy since they were just glued in. But the inside ones are nailed in from the outside. Any help appreciated!

Just came across your channel, I’m new to wood carving and interested in a box of spoon blanks. Do you still sell them? Who’s axe are you using?

You are sharpening in the wrong direction: the bevel should be pulled, not pushed.

Yes very helpful, thanks !

I'm watching 😆

This set of videos has been very helpful. Thank you!

Thanks for the help. Carving with an axe is new to me.

Wow. Love the spoon, love the music. Awesome video.

Don't know how I stumbled across this video but I've already watched it twice. I've got a bunch of logs to cut into billets and have no idea what I'm doing. Watching you do it and what makes a good piece of wood vs what's not was very helpful. Looking forward to watching the rest of your videos and possibly ordering some rough blanks. Thanks for posting!

I like your work. Your video is so relaxing, not to much talk but love the sound of knife moving along the wooden spoon. 👍

I am watching/listening to this as midnight approaches on the last day of 2020. (I found your website searching how to burnish a wooden spoon.) Thank you for your patience in sharing your skills & knowledge with this channel.

What kind of file

How about buying logs?

Hi emmet! One question please! How much time do you leave the spoon to dry before you do your finishing cuts? I really hope you answer, thanks for all the great videos!

In sawyers terms tangential would be flat sawn. Radial would be quarter sawn. The in between is known as rift sawn. In axing you aren't sawing but you are still orienting the grain the same directions. Great stuff! Thanks for the videos.

Skill/tool/process - articulating the process IS skill ;) Tools matter to a degree, but you can't express the potential of the tool without skill. You also can't express the potential of skill without adequate tools. Which means that at some point, skill is limited by the tool(s). Right now, you're looking back over five years of learning and building skills and not really recognizing how much you've improved in that time. It's normal, the changes are incremental and not necessarily easy to see happening ;) Muscle memory is also skill and that comes only through practice. Educating your eye to see what needs to happen, what to take away and how to do it - skill. Process can't teach you to recognize grain direction, but it can make you do it. Part of the fun in this craft is the complexity in such a simple thing ;)

It's good to see someone demonstrating axe technique and using the tool to do the work. Watched one the other day where the fellow, an accomplished carver, was effectively punching the axe into the wood - terrible technique ;) Also saw someone demonstrating who stood with his feet crossed "for safety" to get his leg out of the possible line of the axe. He adopted an inherently unstable stance "for safety". If you work with your piece properly placed on the chopping block, a missed strike goes into the block, can't get to your legs. For those things that you need to work near the edge of the block, the cuts should be quite controlled - you aren't hewing at that point and there the control manages the risk.

Did you realize you picked up the music rhythm with your axe work? ;)

Awesome

Thanks Emmet. I learned much here. I'm finding that I REALLY love axing out a spoon, much more than I'd ever suspected!! I really do. It's one of the most enjoyable aspects of this game!! Working thru all your vids, one by one...in time! Thank you VERY much for making them.

Great job keep on carving

Great job keep on carving

I enjoyed it Emmet! You showed us much indeed, esp. for a relative beginner. You don't mess around much do you...good to see a straight-forward example of how things need to go! Bad-ass....love it, thanks!

Man, like I told you on I'gram this week...you're bad-ass (and that's a good thing!). Must be usin' a Matt White spoon and knife..*grins* Life's just not fair!! I'm learning...

The best spoon carving video I have seen on KZbin

What gauge wire?

This was fantastic! I’ve listen to the first 18 of your podcast today and I’m really enjoying the content. It may take me a while to catch up to current time 🤣 I first came across you on the permaculture podcast.

Nice video, I’ve found it very helpful - thanks

i really like your channel. thanks for taking the time :)

Thank you for this. Is the standard kind of sandpaper used to sand wood that you are showing here? Thanks in advance!

I had the prandi, it arrived super loose, and remained loose even after oil and another wedge. I returned it for the marbles camp axe, that I’ve since rehandled, and filed. It’s been perfect for me, but I have a very hard time sharpening it, no matter what method I try

Thanks so much for this very clear explanation and illustration! The burr continues to remain elusive to me, as I haven’t quite figured out what I’m looking/feeling for, but I’m thinking of putting the blade under a magnifying glass and trying to see the burr that way.

There’s totally a benefit to making more of a repeatable production process. I’ll definitely think more like this to ramp up my output

It seems the longer I work wood, the more my idea and opinion of what constitutes a "sharp" edge changes? What is supposed to be sharp - passes all of the little tests, looks and feel ... it comes down to how the tool performs more than any other reason - when the steel cuts the wood!

Interesting video, thanks for posting it! I am always amazed at how many newer green wood workers don't come from a standard woodworking background, and also how many regular woodworkers don't seem interested in the green or uncured timber woodworking?! Seems the two just don't meet ... different attitudes and different goals?

Awesome video, as always, Emmet. Just wanted to point out, that last axe you introduce appears to be a Prandi. Thanks for sharing, man!

An interesting method, in what sizes comes the sandpaper?