Thanks for posting this great film on spoon making. Jill is an excellent tutor and so enthusiastic and knowledgeable. One can learn so much from this film and I was totally engaged from start to finish GREAT! Its a pity I can only like it once!
Best video on this subject so far. You see people going crazy with their expensive equipment and in the end, their spoons look just like they came from a store.
Lovely, informative film. I'd love to meet her. I particularly liked "idiot proof". It's also nice to see a left handed person making something as there don't seem to be many on RU-vid.
Nice job, dear lady ! My dear mom used to whoop me on occasion with one of those , or a paddle ball , paddle ! Only when I had one coming ! Lol Sure miss my mom , she was the best ! ❤❤
If you make quick small chops about inch and half apart all the way down length it breaks up fibers then back top to cut length at once. Makes it easier.
Where can I find one of those bowl carving scorps that Jill used, in that 2nd-to-last segment? As a fellow lefty, those golden words “ambidextrous tools” are rarely heard and most highly appreciated!
Douglas Turet I don't know about that particular one, but if you are UK based, have you looked at Ben Orford or Dave Budd, both make spoon knives, crook knives and other tools. Good luck!
very good--encima con unos cuantos hombres alredor un poco riendose.yo lo hago con madera de sobra..pero no sontan lindos.y esta maderacomo manteca.aparte estamujer no uso ni sierra.ni caladora .ni tornito...le salio como un pan casero .muy rico -JILL I YOUR GENIUS
This looks like the branch of an oak tree to me. Although sycamore is traditionally used for much of the treen in Britain, because it has a very tight grain. Which is handy really, because apart from that it's got few other positives - it's boring as f**k as woods go, and isn't all that useful for making anything where you want the beauty of the wood to show, because it just doesn't have any beauty. It's a boring, plain, white wood - but it does make good spoons.
If anyone is still answering questions: is she using Greenwood? And if so how do you dry the spoon without it splitting? I've heard a bunch of different answers that haven't quite made me confident on how to do it.
+Carve This Spoon: I purchased this saw (although I know it's from a US company). It appears to be the same saw. replacement blades can be purchased for it in different tooth patterns. Essentially, I googled 'folding woodworking saw', or 'folding carpenter's saw'.
She’s wrong You don’t have to get rid of the centre (the pith) at all, I carve spoons down from the outer into the pith, leaving a bullseye effect or swirl in the bowl of the spoon going from white to brown or black depending on the wood..laburnum is really nice to use because of it’s dark pith..and if anything it adds strength to the spoon as it’s the centre so tighter grain.
Unless you're good with an axe, I don't recommend this method of roughing out. She's very good, don't assume in the beginning you will be as well because you won't be and you'll risk chopping a finger off or you'll get a very deep cut.
