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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!!
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!
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.
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!
