How to: Step by Step Green Wood Spoon Axing!

[@whittling]

Well done Brett! I'm going to mention this video (and your channel) in the next episode of Wood Carving Weekly.

[@bigbearwoodshack]

Hey, thanks so much! Very appreciated, my friend! More videos are dropping later this week! I'm on the wood hunt and looking for birch, more maple, and hopefully CHERRY!!

[@whittling]

My pleasure Brett! Good luck with the wood hunt!@@bigbearwoodshack

[@cedarberryclanblackberryac6447]

Nice to see the angle between the bowl and the stem

[@bigbearwoodshack]

It is tough trying to find a great angle to display how the carve goes. Viewing head-on is fine, but the camera angle, I found, let's you see my line of sight which is super important in creating a symmetrical spoon. Thanks so much!

[@ToolsandTime]

Nice work roughing out that blank! It takes some skill to do that with an axe.

[@bigbearwoodshack]

Cheers my friend! It sure does. It takes much practice. A quote from a famous spoon carver is that "You get the knack for carving spoons after about 300". 😂 I'm definitely over that number but in honesty not by much. Maybe 400 or 450 at this stage of the spoon journey.

[@quinntheeskimooutdoors6234]

Thanks. Good instructions. Take care😊

[@bigbearwoodshack]

Thanks, you too!

[@joem2745]

Most of the time I axe a spoon, my wife says no.

[@bigbearwoodshack]

😆

[@TheShurikenZone]

Nice job! Just don't let your keel get too thin. ;-)

[@bigbearwoodshack]

Keel is something that I used to struggle with. I leave "meat" on the blank to carve my keel out better with a straight knife until my desired thinness. Definitely had many fails leading up to developing a carving system. Cheers!