Carving a wooden spoon | old beechwood

This time I am making a wooden spoon from old beech wood.
Tools I used - Japanese saw, flat chisel, spoon gouge, carving knife, some sand papers, pencil and a clamp.
Finishing with olive oil to be fully usable.
It was supposed to be one evening project but with the filming and "directing" it turned into one night project - still good enough.
Wish you to enjoy the video and thanks for waching/commenting/subscribing/whatever :-)
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[@woodsmith_1]

Looks like something Bilbo Baggins would pack in his satchel!

[@paperkay]

It's amazing to see how every carver has their own style. I've not seen two videos with the same approach. And one learns something every time. Thank you!

[@hlloyd-fs4uf]

Awesome from many perspectives. A+ video, no talking, no barfy music, no 72 min. of someone's face and 2 min. of the object. It is not easy to carve something so simple as a spoon, especially with just hand tools, I know, I've made some, and I've never had a spoon gouge. Nice design, nice sequential work, and nice finished product.

[@billastell3753]

Carving a spoon out of dry beech is hard work. Turned out nice though.

[@delcodanglin9382]

Thank you for doing this and doing it with hand tools. I don’t have all the higher end power tools but want to get into woodworking. This is perfect

[@ateleskier7066]

Absolute masterpiece end to end. The background music and talking were all done by the tools and the wood; perfect. Whilst there is nothing wrong with a bandsaw, watching this done with an Hassunme and chisel was very refreshing. I had my heart in my mouth when you made those cross-cuts and broke out the waste! Just shows how hard and seasoned that beech really was. Fabulous video, and a lesson to us all in every way - an absolute joy to watch. I will be back to watch it again many times.

[@dearbrave4183]

Oh my God! Thank you so much for sharing my eyes are so happy to watch this😍,....and I love that there was less wood waste and less extreme cutting with the axe which would require it to be outdoor and I would be afraid to hurt myself although I understand this might be required to carve bigger things/objects... anyways so far I'm still watching but I would like to try carving a spoon very soon and your video was very instructional with all the drawing, providing more precision ❤️❤️❤️😍

[@geezice]

That is a beautiful spoon with minimal tools. Great job. Thanks for sharing.

[@npc9879]

Awesome spoon. I really like the shape, I haven’t made one like that yet. I think I’ll do a similar shape for my next one. I’ve got close to forty of them now. I carve spoons to relax after work every day. It’s an odd way to relax considering I work as a wood carver. Lol Great video and keep up the awesome work.

[@potteryjoe]

Wow. That is one pretty spoon. Great work on a nice design

[@johndoeusa65]

Cute spoon! And I like that you did all work without any big electric noisy tools. Just hands and instruments, very good

[@eRHonc]

Thank you! Thats the way i prefer - using those quiet sharp hand tools where you can really see how well these work.

[@soleneisconbi7302]

Was nice to see this done with no power tools. Very inspiring.

[@eRHonc]

Thank you very much, I'm happy you find it inspiring.

[@lucyb15]

a spoon with lovely lines from an old dry plank...well done!

[@dsanchez31951]

A really fine spoon carving video A good use of your tools..

[@mikemurphyseemsliked]

Nice. Watching this lowered my blood pressure several points for sure. Keep up the good work!

[@azor294]

Very good example of a good sequence to making a spoon. I learned a lot viewing the video

[@jjna919]

I like the sound when you cut the wooden spoon with the chisel.

[@heyimamaker]

Looks great! Carving spoons are always fun but take me forever to complete!

[@johnmurray517]

Great video! Thank you for making it and for showing us how it is done.

[@Idoitfortheskonkas]

Blows my mind that theres over 200 dislikes. Job well sir. Keep up with the briliant artistry.

[@WilkoChan]

7:35 I can't watch :o As someone who has injured my hand with a chisel by doing EXACTLY that, I would advise everyone to not be as stupid as me... Always cut away from yourself and if you cant, use some form of protection on your hand!

[@pablocruzgilmour]

Just beautiful, and respect for doing it with minimal hand tools and no vice. I like it when people are adaptable. Such a nice lustre to the spoon in the end, was it just olive oil? One thing I would do prior to sanding is wetting the wood to raise the grain then sand off the raised fibres. All in all great work and great video!

[@jkr3008]

Very neat and elegant piece. Nice job, sir.

[@eRHonc]

Thank you, I'm glad you like it.

[@stephenjackendoff4886]

Nice to see it done by hand

[@joelroberts1581]

Well done on a great looking video and a nice looking spoon. I’m also a beginner woodworker who is interested in learning to do things the old fashioned way, so I admire you showing us your process as you learn. I highly recommend checking out the videos of Paul Sellers, who teaches really good woodworking technique. After cutting myself badly several times, my biggest areas of learning have been general safety and how to sharpen tools. All the best on your adventures.

[@Moharani21]

Joel Roberts Thank you. I would like to start wood carving. I hear the best tools are quite important. Would you kindly post a link to some of the basic good tools to start with? I would appreciate it very much. Thanks again 🙏

[@survivalmike]

Beautiful handcrafted spoon. It looks gorgeous. Thx for sharing. Cheers, Mike

[@pedroaraujodesign1]

Wow man, so beautiful work! Greetings from Brazil!

[@deneicetabachki7945]

Awesome spoon, when you know how to use tools makes it look easy, impressive 🌻

[@cavemanjoe7972]

I love that you leave all the chips on the table.

[@nekosan6630]

音が心地よいし、素敵なスプーン

[@MrBucidart]

This is the first vid of yours that I watched, Subscribed !!! Please keep up the good work.

[@Sklallamstrong]

Might I suggest finishing with a mineral oil or beeswax, or a mix of both. Any oil with fat like vegetable or olive oil will go rancid eventually.

[@s.l.2385]

So calming and beautiful. I reaaally want to carve a spoon myself but I don't have electric tools so I will definitely try your way. Thank you very much!!

[@trackerjacker0013]

S. L. A hook knife and a sloyd. 25$ on Amazon. Means to sharpen and strop. And a hatchet. All ya need bud. Just make sure you’re good an sharp or it’s no fun at all. Not to mention, a sharp blade is a safe blade.

[@Andy_Wills]

You make it look so easy!

[@leslieb6881]

So, get a piece of hardwood, and take away everything that doesn’t look like a spoon? OK...I Got it!

[@beepIL]

Beautiful work! love the editing and position of the whole thing in the video.

[@maq2054]

What a lovely little spoon, well done.

[@mousaiworkshop]

Beautiful work!

[@superczech]

I have carved dry wood so I know how much work this had to be - nice job, although there were some scary sections when you had your gouge pointing at your supporting hand - accident waiting to happen. Also, olive oil will go rancid over time so not best choice.

[@macdaddy7909]

Prove it , I don't see any videos all talk 🙄

[@passionatefruit164]

What oil do you recommend as a better option?

[@somika87]

@@passionatefruit164 drying oils: raw linseed, walnut, poppy seed, tung oil. All food safe and won't go rancid over time. Olive oil goes rancid, spoiled some of my earlier pieces. Live and learn S87WOOD

[@void1737]

@@somika87 i raccommend all type of mineral oil and if you dont want to spend too much you can also use baby oli!

[@crossgrainwoodproductsltd9230]

Baby oil? That is not a food-safe oil. It has added fragrance added to it. Stay away from anything with added fragrances unless it is an essential oil, but even that I wouldn't use. Mineral oil or hemp oil and bees wax blended together works beautifully. I can send you a sample of mine that I make if you like.

[@heidigibbons1207]

Wow, that looked rather hard. But a lovely spoon!

[@nealwalden3543]

awesome. huge amount of work.

[@Komplexitet]

Great video! I would recommend using and axe and the knife more. Its safer, like really

[@ManyMagix]

Very nice work, I would have used a coping saw instead of all that chisel work, but to each his own!

[@Happyheart146]

Sandpaper makes the wood fur up upon washing thus leaving gaps for bacteria to breed. A blade finish is preferable, I believe. Very pretty spoon tho. Good job.

[@stevesteves8915]

But you can wet it, sand it again and it will be fine

[@intrsv]

Wood carving asmr

[@crossgrainwoodproductsltd9230]

Those look like brand new chisels. I would suggest that you put a good shape edge on them. It will make it much easier to carve. From someone who has been doing this for a while, you may want to add a spokeshave for helping to get the curves. I also use small rifles that my grandfather owned and used in the rough shaping of his sculptures and carvings. Most of the tools I inherited from my grandfather and have been handed down from generation to generation. If you can get a hold of a stately 151 spokeshave, the older ones, are handy even when I carve The old Norse-style bowls. They can be pricey around $50.75.00, or you can get the new stately. As pretty as the new higher-end spokeshaves go, they are too expensive for me. I would put my 17th-century wood spokeshave against a Veritas any day, lol.

[@MrWeah2003]

Damn, that spoon smooooooooooooooth, boy

[@pondlife1952]

Absolutely beautiful.

[@talifickman8899]

Hi! What are the sizes the 2 gouges you used for making the bowl?

[@carolewarner101]

Lovely! Thanks for sharing.

[@mikemoth]

Probably the best example of how not to use basic hand tools.

[@rickschuman2926]

Sawing dry wood on a flat and slick surface covered with saw dust, especially beech, with no means to keep the work piece steady, like a vice or a bench hook, is a good recipe for cutting your self.

[@mikemurphyseemsliked]

Rick Schuman he seems to have pulled it off! LOL

[@Sanduskinator]

I'm just trying to figure out what he has against a coping saw

[@Amplefii]

Are u fucking serious it’s a hand saw what is he going to do slip then just keep sawing give me a break nobody has ever cut themselves with a hand saw

[@Tallsup2]

Jimmy Hendrix played a right-handed guitar left-handed and towards the end of his career, he wouldn't even tune it. Any way you can get there is a good way. Love the spoon.

[@deziderious6510]

Tim Allsup Fender also made a lefthanded guitar to Jimmy didn't they?

[@davidcrandell1172]

That was really cool, not a power tool in sight.

[@graphiccontent98]

Great job, looks beautiful ✌

[@its-Z]

It's so satisfying

[@BarefootBeekeeper]

Too much like hard work. Green beech is lovely to carve, and it grows on trees.

[@dominicm6144]

Nice project and a beautiful result. Great job on that, never seen it done like that..

[@eRHonc]

Thank you, I am glad you like it.

[@bushcraftgangster7809]

Well,that was different!!!!!!!! Very nyce.

[@pengroy7824]

I'm a simple man, I see a butterfly joint, I press like.

[@bikibarman8409]

Peng Roy

[@manuelfrancisco5061]

nice work!..and nice color..

[@TemplarsWildFire]

How could anyone dislike this?

[@AlyxAesthetics]

Some people just dislike it for no reason. Trolls

[@mikeg2046]

@@AlyxAesthetics true but I think it's mote of the fact that he goes through all that sawing and chiseling when it would have been way faster with a hatchet, knife and hook knife/gouge. Check out Barn on the Spoon Club channel. That's how it's done

[@rhc2670]

@@mikeg2046 agreed, and not using a mallet(or other method of stock removal, for efficiency) or bench vice (for safety, see my other post regarding chiseling toward the hand holding the object)...and many such logically valid reasons to dislike this, having nothing to do with the end result, nor the desire to troll.

[@RegisMichelLeclerc]

Nice one! you may want to use a scraper instead of/before the sandpaper

[@fritzfromswitzerland]

I eat soup every day if you give me that spoon!

[@aliceharvey1226]

2KDSurvival I need one too, to go with my favorite soup/cereal/whatever wooden bowl. But I want to try making my own spoon now.

[@jimschowe2770]

European red beech I believe? Nice close dense grain with the tell tale small red streaks through the wood. Holds great detail. Got any more?

[@eRHonc]

It is from Europe but I am not sure if it is red beech, although it has slight red "stains" in it. The grain is beautiful with the coloring in it but unfortunately the piece you see in the video is the last one I have.

[@Chestnie_otzivi_ot_borodocha]

Очень тяжёлый труд. Хорошая ложка 😉Мастер умелец

[@DeadbillyDecker]

Want to start off that overall I do like the video but I feel you made it a lot more work than it should of been. Same time though as long as you feel it's time well spent then good on ya.

[@lukecamp7262]

Nice job.. Love it !

[@dankpizza]

i loved this

[@diyhandcrafter]

It’s amazing how you did it.

[@gce120]

No offense but I recommend sharpening your tools and maybe investing in a vice since you seem to be exerting a lot of unnecessary energy

[@ateleskier7066]

Beautiful.

[@ers-ust170]

amazing, fantastic, thx

[@shoelemasroor2683]

nice job mate keep on moving we will suport y :)

[@arrivemoonsuncimen1974]

güzel bir çalışma. güzel bir işçilik. elinize sağlık

[@Jinx-wj9fe]

You made beatifull spoon! I just also try to make my first spoon. I made knife and it was easy to make. Spoon is next level so lets see what I get 😄 Olive oil is good to use 😊

[@jimschowe2770]

By the way nice dutchman on your workbench.

[@eRHonc]

Thank you, that was my first one ever. And it's the same wood.

[@Alex27krsn]

This is a very accurate work

[@uruguayo8767]

Excelente trabajo , saludos desde Uruguay

[@eRHonc]

Thank you. Greetings from Czech.

[@deivimarcastro2542]

Good job👏👏👏

[@Белогоръ]

Very nice Creativity

[@silvanaguerra4292]

Verry nice work ! 👏🏻👏🏻👍

[@leksey7870]

Very nice turned out!

[@tigersrgoodswimmers7421]

nice......great video salute

[@eRHonc]

Thank you!

[@jakub1868]

Amazing. Very good.

[@glennthomas7978]

Stunning

[@jonbaker326]

V/nice spoon!

[@tbaactualidadymuchomas4779]

Excelente demostracion

[@xrl1193]

Sir, I'm your 3632th subscriber! 🦅🤩

[@MedSou]

Good job 👍👍👍👍👍

[@fedrickharkrang9148]

Nice ..amazing what is that? That u pour on the spoon

[@heriberthuber54]

My best guess would be linseed oil. One of the easiest foodsafe woodfinishes out there.

[@clwest3538]

from the top of the bottle, it looks like olive oil .... and in the desc it says olive oil was used to finish the spoon.

[@cydrych]

cl west I was thinking that too. I just started spoon carving and have been using almond oil. If olive will work it’s way cheaper.

[@bajlazs]

@@heriberthuber54 linseed oil is not entirely food safe, neither is olive oil both of those go rancid over time. Just to step ahead of your answer: flaxseed oil what is basically non boiled linseed oil is food safe but it is much darker

[@bablukumarroy2057]

Mind blowing work

[@debd.625]

Gorgeous!!!

[@eRHonc]

Thank you

[@MrDom-lu3sm]

I might be mistaken (I don’t have experience) but that looked like good oil which can go rancid using coconut oil works really good tho

[@lazyhanger6027]

Very nice, when I saw the thumbnail I thought it was a fancy smoking pipe

[@Moharani21]

So beautiful Do you mind posting a link of your tools? Thanks 🙏

[@deziderious6510]

Nice spoon man!

[@Mikhandmaker]

Nice look

[@eRHonc]

Thank you

[@pixiepqueen]

incredible skill x

[@eRHonc]

Thank you

[@rhc2670]

Please NEVER point a chisel toward your other hand. One slip or successful chiseling away of the wood and you lose a LOT of blood, and maybe some/all of a finger or two. This is one of the many reasons bench vises were invented!

[@Amplefii]

You should go hang out with the guy in the comments that thinks you can cut yourself with a hand say the way he is using that chisel is by no means dangerous there was almost no lateral pressure on the chisel it was pretty much all rotational torque it would be very hard to cut yourself like that. bunch of fucking pussies in this comment section scared of hand tools

[@WoodFaerie]

@@Amplefii and one, who assumes every person knows how to properly handle hand tools. i will agree with you on the chisel but the pull saw on the other hand if someone doesn't know how to handle any saw really could have it jump, and rake across a finger or two resulting in tiny cuts across them. it may not be deadly or extremely painful but can be discouraging for someone new to hand tools, which is why it's always nice, and the smart thing to do by educating in a proper, and non-hostile way that you've obviously failed to do. hand tools can be just as dangerous if not more so than any power tool because they depend purely on human error, and judgment, and if you've never used a hand tool there will be a right way to handle, and use them properly to make sure you're safe and you have a good end product.

[@2spoons]

No offence.... but did you take this approach because you didn't have an axe or bandsaw ?.... or did you want to have more control over the tools? I don't think you even marked the table.... very controlled! Try soaking the timber if its dry in a bucket of water to help soften it up a bit especially with oak, pear, beech and ash etc