How to be a Full time Spoon carver // Start your own Wood carving business - Lotsofwoods.com 

Thanks Jonas Olsen. Selling online is a different story. Lots of promotion required, and you have to be creative with it. Lots of work selling online!

frogsoda Its a challenge, but most new things are a challenge.. I agree, selling is tought, but after a while you'll find your groove and it will be natural.

I started carving spoons in the winter with the idea to sell during the summer, but I don't think I could part with them regardless.

Marketing! Cool! I'm very interested in marketing stuff.

Thanks kmh I really appreciate this comment! If demand gets too high I may have to mark up the price, because the emails are getting crazy, although I enjoy it! I really cant wait to get some success stories up! A lot of guys are very encouraged, and with encouragement and any support needed from me, its a good recipe for a good thing! Thanks again! - Jeff

Hey krenov72 great question! I was carving alot of apple and although it sells well, its hard on the hands. You might be able to carve twice as many birch spoons as apple. I normally have a special selection of Applewood priced a tad higher, just to keep it special and make it worth it. I do my best to always have green wood on hand, and my motivation is to use it up quickly. If you have too much greenwood, just try to work harder and more efficiently to use it up. You'll develop techniques to work much more efficiently. I cant say I really have a system for greenwood.. The obvious, keep it out of the elements.. You can use tarp maybe, depends on how much wood your trying to keep green. It sounds like you have a great skill set to work with!

Thanks for the reply. I have been making furniture and cabinets since 1995, as well as working in a cabinet shop for a number of years. There is something so satisfying about using simple tools to make a not so simple craft. The reason I'm looking to shift some aspects of my work is mostly due to an aversion to sanding, and keeping my work space small and partly outdoors. Only carved a few spoons, but so far most enjoyable and Looking forward to getting closer to nature and the materials. Your videos and blog are very enjoyable. Thanks for sharing your skills and time. It's funny, having watched a 100 videos on spooncarving, they didn't really resonate until I carved a few. Now I am getting the finer points .

Awesome! I can totally relate with sanding. When I made the switch to no more sanded spoons, I was much happier. It improved my carving skills, reduced annoying noise, no more dusty clothes, eyes, nose..No more sandpaper! There were many pro's to no more sanding. Im actually thinking of making a pole lathe soon, which may end up in the house for the winter! We shall see, but thats one of my thoughts!

Thanks Lawrence! I thought it sounded pretty epic... plus my wife gave me the thumbs up. We can blame her for the music :)

Thanks Brandon Sturms ! That was the main point behind this particular video. Glad it was recognized though! It definitely boosts my day to hear comments like this. Hopefully you find some other useful stuff around my channel! Let me know your interests and Ill keep them in mind for future vids!

Jeff Ballantyne Actually I can think of two videos I would like to see. You might already have these videos, but I didn't see them when I was scrolling your uploads. 1. A video on how you choose the wood you use,, not so much a carving video but on material section. i.e. from the tree to the point you would start carving. 2. What are your bread and butter tools, The tools you use daily, I guess a kind of a shop/tool video. I only ask about these because I want to start getting into carving spoons and bowls, Thanks Jeff

Sounds Good brandon, actually I've been asked to make videos often on this subject. I should do them first. Stay tuned man! Carving spoons and bowls is quite the joy!

Hahah! This is the best comment yet. I appreciate your enthusiasm.

LoneWolf Survival it doesn’t matter if it’s spoons or what. If you get good at making something that solves a problem for the customer, price it fair and go from there!

@@lotsofwoods, price it fair for them or for me? Honest question, because I can't see someone paying $80 for a spoon that took me four hours to hand carve, just to use the above example. $15 might be a fair price for them, but then I'd be severely devaluing my time.