How to Make a Wooden Cooking Spoon

How to Make a Wooden Cooking Spoon
Whether it is a wooden spoon, a wooden scoop, a wooden spatula, a wooden cooking spoon, or other wooden cooking utensils, these wooden utensils bring us back closer to the natural world around us than the plastic utensils that we often use in our modern kitchens. Not only are they sustainable, they are beautiful and actually pleasant to use.
There are TWO OTHER VIDEOS about the making of this spoon:
THE MAKING OF A WOODEN SPOON is a video that discusses the tree that this spoon was made from and ties it into generosity towards the world around us.
• The Making of a Wooden...
And, HOW TO MAKE A WOODEN SPOON IN 30 SECONDS is a KZbin Shorts video that compresses the making of the spoon down into 30 seconds.
• Make a Wooden Spatula ...
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Time Stamps for How to Make a Wooden Cooking Spoon
0:00 How to Make a wooden cooking spoon
0:36 Milling the ood for the wooden cooking spoon
1:04 Laying out the wooden cooking spoon
1:41 Band sawing the wooden cooking spoon blank
2:46 Sanding the wooden cooking spoon
4:02 Carving out the bowl of the spoon with the Arbortech Ball Gouge
4:28 Sanding the bowl of the spoon with the Arbortech Mini Turbo sander
5:00 Sanding the bowl of the spoon with the Arbortech Contour Sander
5:12 Hand Sanding the wooden cooking spoon
5:43 Applying the finish on the wooden cooking spoon
6:26 The finished wooden cooking spoon
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[@TheShutterbug1968]

Very nice job! Thank you.

[@ronanguinan]

Great work!

[@drsbrettsavage]

NIce "tricks" shared...I would not have seen how to so this...thanks.

[@MadebyWolfe]

you are welcome

[@wakelywanderer12]

Great narration and use of tools that I use. Subscribed.

[@MadebyWolfe]

Thanks Wakely Wanderer. Happy woodworking!

[@brayswoodturning5036]

Great job!

[@MadebyWolfe]

Thanks! and Thank for watching.

[@aminayusuf2491]

Beautiful craftsmanship.

[@MadebyWolfe]

Thank you!

[@michaelvehmeier537]

A comment on the bench lamination video said you can never have too many clamps... unless you need to store them like at 5:19! 🤣 Love the music and narration style!

[@MadebyWolfe]

Let me make something perfectly clear...YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MANY CLAMPS...the fact that you don't have enough room to store all of them is only indicative of another woodworker axiom, "Your shop is never big enough." Well, I think that should settle that! I would be happy to explain both of these to Sandy if you need me to. Thanks for your comment...oh, and let me know if you need to borrow any clamps.

[@drsbrettsavage]

Reminding us to raise the grain with water was most helpful.

[@MadebyWolfe]

Yes, they were not cheap. And Yes, they are nice and have allowed me to do more things faster and better. Thanks of commenting.

[@WTerang]

Ty

[@rogertyler3237]

I'm Making A Spoon Rest & I Don't Need All Those Fancy Tools To Make It. All I Used Is A Rotary Tool & A Scroll Saw.

[@MadebyWolfe]

There are many ways to do it. Enjoy your spoon.

[@jeffklein602]

Is the grinding arbor you use to hollow out the spoon easy to control? Wondering if I could use it with a battery-powered drill. I do my hollowing with a hook knife now and the increase in efficiency looks very desirable. Thanks for a great presentation!

[@MadebyWolfe]

I have a battery operated grinder (Bosch) that I just chucked it up in because I was curious, and it worked just fine. For it to be used in a battery operated drill you would need to come up with a way to make the transition from the drill chuck to the connection on the ball gouge, which fits a standard connection on 4" grinder. Nothing comes to mind, but we can send people to the moon, so somehow it is possible. I have not had very much time with the ball gouge, but it does seem fairly easy to control. I did use a curved scraper to get the spoon to its finished smoothness before sanding. I could see it creating big time savings for someone who makes a lot of spoons. Hope the that helps. Thanks for watching and thanks for commenting.

[@microstrader]

You spent some money on those powermatics. Wow. Nice.

[@emmanuellevargas7021]

will it be possible to use pine 🎍 por a spoon and fork set ...?

[@simplemowman]

I really like the spoon design. Is the template available anywhere? I’ve done a number of woodworking projects and would like to start making some spoons.

[@MadebyWolfe]

No, sorry. This was the only one of this design that I made.

[@michaelvehmeier537]

Just curious how necessary it was to run the blank through the jointer and planer since all the cutting is freehand on the bandsaw... maybe one face wasn't flat enough or too rough for the bandsaw table? Oh, probably lets you see the grain detail better, and gives smoother surfaces to draw the patterns on.

[@MadebyWolfe]

You need one side and one edge flat so it references consistently off the table in the bandsaw. And, as you said, the other two need to be flat enough to easily see the pattern when you are cutting. I will often take the side that has the pattern drawn on it right off the table saw. Thanks for watching and thanks for commenting.

[@forestroach]

Very cool video)

[@MadebyWolfe]

Thank you French Roast...Lots of fun to make, both the video and the spoon. Do you do any coffee roasting yourself, or is the name just a commentary on you love for coffee? Thanks for watching and thanks for commenting?

[@forestroach]

@@MadebyWolfe what you think about PR?

[@MadebyWolfe]

@@forestroach HMMM. Public Relations? Puerto Rico coffee? If it is the Public Relations I choose not answer...But Puerto Rican Coffee...that is something else. It has bee a few years since I have roasted any, but I have roasted it in the past, and remember it being good. Maybe I'll have to seek some out soon.

[@forestroach]

@@MadebyWolfe I'm talking about advertising)

[@MadebyWolfe]

@@forestroach Well, I guess I have exposed my weakness for coffee. I am not sure how to understand your PR question. PR for myself, for someone else or for something like a company? I really am not apposed to discussing PR, especially if I am drinking a cup of coffee, which I am, although it is from Peru, not PR.

[@clearviewmarine]

Very nice work thank you for sharing.. Where would I get a drum/flap sander like yours?

[@MadebyWolfe]

My sander is a Sand Rite sander. It is an American made sander that has several configuration options. I bought mine used. There are many Import variations, Grizzly and such, with different configurations. Many of them are essentially grinder like motor with longer shafts. But they would work fine also and are much less expensive. Check out sand-rite.com

[@treyrees9153]

I've never seen a flap sander before. Does it have a grit rating (or use a different scale) to determine the coarseness of a finish it provides?

[@MadebyWolfe]

You can get different grits, but it is not practical to switch them out for a project. It would be best to have two different flap sanders if you wanted to use two different grits for a single project. But one grit seems fine. As the sandpaper wears away you wind more out (and keep going. The sandpaper is backed by what looks like stiff paintbrushes. It is a pretty neat invention. I don't know if you can see it in the video, but it creates a lot of wind (you can see my shirt moving quite a bit). As always thanks for watching and commenting.

[@1swmpthng1]

who makes the flap and spindle / drum sander you use in spoon video?

[@MadebyWolfe]

Sand Rite. They are an American and American Made company. www.sand-rite.com

[@jumpingjacks5558]

Great video. Do you ever just use hand tools when making these spoons?

[@MadebyWolfe]

In the back of my mind I have a place where I see myself with a knife and a block of wood sitting on my front porch (which I don't have) whittling away while the sun sets...it is possible I even have a pipe that I am smoking (which I don't own because I don't smoke). HOWEVER, in my real life I am much too impatient. Thanks for watching and commenting.

[@rharris22222]

​@@MadebyWolfeHa ha, that is so much how I feel! Whittling is so satisfying for the first five minutes, but then I start thinking about all the things I really need to get done...

[@williamaguilar214]

So you sell your patterns? Thanks William

[@MadebyWolfe]

I am sorry, but I do not sell the patterns.

[@vanattran3030]

Helo