Spoon and a Brew - part 1

A little journey into the woods to make a brew, select a billet and carve a spoon from a crook, format inspired by Doug Outside's coffee and carving series. Part two will cover finishing the spoon after the timber has dried out properly.
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Intro track - fireside - by my good friend Mr Brown

[@marjoriepark1198]

Thank you Lee. I am new to spoon carving (@ 3 months) watching lots of videos. Especially enjoy Zed outdoor series on spoon carving. In fact had seen your episode. I really have appreciated all of Zeds efforts and episodes dealing with spoon carving. One difficulty I continue to have involves transitioning between bowl and handle. Your treatment of the process between 16:00 - @21:00 , I will put in my notebook to refer back to in future when I find the right crook to work with. I think even a straight piece will benefit from the process you use in getting the stock shaped up past the axe work. Thank you again and good job on your camera setup and editing to get a nice video out. Marjorie from Georgia US

[@bluesideup007]

Thank you for the brew and relaxing spoon lesson. I've taken to bring my kit camping and canoeing. I too enjoy a wood fired cup of coffee while chipping away.

[@quinntheeskimooutdoors6234]

Nice, thanks for showing us. Take care.

[@leemichel8199]

Perfect example of how easy things can be with sharp tools and the better quality tools aswell . So you want good you need to get good . Great video mate . God bless xpeacex

[@LeeStoffer]

Very kind of you, thanks for watching.

[@HazeOutdoors]

Great to watch you work mate. I hope you keep doing these videos. Big up!

[@LeeStoffer]

Thanks for watching and commenting, glad you enjoyed it. I'm certainly going to try start posting here more regularly again, Cheers

[@leewest5850]

What a nice setting to carve in, thanks for sharing

[@mariumrajah]

Excellent example you showed us brother Great upload enjoyed watching ..

[@jls191]

I like the neck piece of leather for the pull cuts. Very good idea I will have to steal ;)

[@marlawhite3682]

Very cool showing how to use a crurve in the branch to carve a spoon

[@terry-of-Wiltshire]

Super set of vids Lee, my grandparents lived in Aspley Guise close by, great broadleaf woods there (Beech, Ash from memory) couldn't keep me out of them! Looking forward to seeing your spoon scorps on sale again!!😉👍

[@muddygary9076]

Was great to see some more of your great work Mr Stoffer. And like many others I am sure looking forward to seeing plenty more. #TheTea

[@LeeStoffer]

Thanks mate, hope you're well, I'll do my best!

[@dougLinker]

Very cool -nicely done

[@LeeStoffer]

Cheers Doug, glad you liked it, hope you didn't mind me borrowing your camera in the billy can trick, just couldn't resist it! looking forward to your next instalment of coffee and carving.

[@dougLinker]

Lee Stoffer it's fun and hard to resist when you have a GoPro

[@chasfield7060]

Great video Lee. Nice to see you back making videos.

[@LeeStoffer]

Hey Chaz, glad you liked it, I'm going to try and start posting here more regularly again.

[@livebait456]

excellent man nice to get out in the woods and relax on to part two :)

[@HitThemShotz]

Thanks for posting, I really enjoyed! I also have a spoon from a crook by you and it's like watching you make it haha

[@LeeStoffer]

John Wager nice one, thanks for your support, glad you enjoyed it.

[@scruff_uk]

What a fantastic video Lee! Some superb demonstrations of the techniques involved. Your deftness with axe and knife is incredible to watch. By the way, loved the dope beats! Thank you a great deal for your time and generosity producing another fine resource. All the best scruffuk

[@LeeStoffer]

Thanks very much for the generous feedback, it's my pleasure to be able to do stuff like this on occasion. I really enjoyed making this one, hopefully get back into some sort of routine with videos from now on. Cheers dude!

[@randomfox9970]

Lee Stoffer greetings from Essex UK England fellow carver I too carve spoons great work 🐾🐺🐻🐗👌

[@LeeStoffer]

Hi There, thanks for watching.

[@Zedoutdoors]

Good to see you back on the youber tuber dude ~Peace~

[@LeeStoffer]

cheers dude.

[@journeyintobushcraft]

Awesome as always Lee!!! More required! All the best matey Danny

[@LeeStoffer]

Cheers Danny, I'll see what I can do!

[@lesliecrowther7004]

High Lee, Only just found this one, nice little video mate. Judging by the way you went in, you have access to someone else's land ? Or you own your own little bit of forest :-) Nice and secluded, peaceful and a lovely atmosphere, plus a ready supply of wood to work with :-) What you did use looked like natural wind fall, that is still very green indeed. You have not taken down a tree,that's got to be good news. If I can, I try to get wind fall, storm blown tree. Having said that, question? Just how long can such trees remain classed as green? Curiosity, As always well done, many thanks. Cheers Les.

[@LeeStoffer]

Hi Les, yes I've got a share in a small local woodland, lovely place to spend time reconnecting with nature. How long timber stays green depends on a whole lot of variables like species, log size, when it was cut, how it's stored etc, logs can hold on moisture for a year or two and some windblown trees manage to keep a few roots in the ground and continue to grow though, which is really useful because you can work back towards the main trunk harvesting billets as and when you need them. 👍🏻

[@JoshStockwell84]

digging the tunes

[@LeeStoffer]

Cheers, Mr Brown (we stay true) is a great producer and good friend of mine, he's got plenty more material on soundcloud and iTunes if you wanna check him out also goes by westaytrue on instagram if you wanna give him a follow there.

[@joseywales5937]

My Broadband apparently struggling to download it Lee, but I'm sure it'll be brilliant!

[@thatguyonabicycleofconsurv3908]

Where are you in the world? You have such a unique and enjoyable video style... ty

[@LeeStoffer]

Thanks for the kind words, I'm based in Buckinghamshire in the UK currently.

[@riobravo9896]

Nice

[@balista9831]

cool vid Lee, luckily i could guess what you were up to most of the time lol,.

[@LeeStoffer]

Cheers, yeah the camera angles weren't the best but it was a bit of fun rather than a tutorial, glad you enjoyed it and thanks for commenting.

[@vesselofgrace6644]

Great video! Nice to see you on KZbin again! Was trying to see if I recognized where you were, I used to work in Hemel Hempstead and know you live (or at least used to live) near there. Out of curiosity, what was the saw you were using? It was either your ability with it or the saw itself, but it made light work of everything! Thanks for making this video was fun to watch

[@LeeStoffer]

Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for commenting. Yeah I'm based on the outskirts of Milton Keynes so not too far from Hemel. That saw is a silky super accel 210, I've had it years now so it's not as sharp as it used to be but they are considered the best saw's for green wood by most tree surgeons I've spoken to and they're definitely my first choice. They do a comprehensive range and I'd go for the medium tooth set for a good all round performance. Cheers.

[@vesselofgrace6644]

Lee Stoffer Thanks Lee!

[@thatguyonabicycleofconsurv3908]

Where did you get your stove

[@luketregear2154]

What axe / hatchet are you using?

[@thatguyonabicycleofconsurv3908]

Do you make your own tools

[@gray3383]

Great content! Who is that instrumental track by?

[@LeeStoffer]

M Gray cheers the track is by my mate Rich, aka Mr Brown. He's got loads more stuff on SoundCloud and iTunes if you want to have a listen.

[@gray3383]

Brilliant

[@Max-yv3ok]

Where did you buy that axe?

[@LeeStoffer]

I made it.

[@Max-yv3ok]

@@LeeStoffer It looks really good, ive made two axes my self so I know how hard it is. But looks like its exellent for spoon carving.

[@clayguinard3651]

Tea or coffee

[@RiemannFan]

Great video Lee....... but you really need to invest in a decent microphone.

[@LeeStoffer]

Philip Green cheers, will look into it but i've only ever had a couple of comments about sound quality so suspect that playback devices are more likely the issue. I would like to get a decent camera at some point tho, this was all done on my phone and a go pro.

[@randomfox9970]

Lee Stoffer we work with what we got until better solution comes up ie birthday Christmas 🐗🐻🐾🐺👌

[@stanpeters8893]

This is good, but can't see how your carving, please put camcorder just on close to main part of carving, do not need to see the scenery, just your style of carving and which tools using. Thank you for thinking about what I suggested.

[@LeeStoffer]

Hi Stan, Thanks for the suggestion but I have done other videos which focus more closely on technique if you'd like to check them out, the one my friend Zed filmed and posted on his channel has been quite popular for that. This time the focus was on the whole experience of getting out and carving in natural surroundings (some folk like to see that too) no worries if it's not your thing tho, best wishes, Lee.

[@amanderik]

What's going on here? The steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car. ;)