Category: Spoon Carving Projects

Classic straight-handled, hardwood wooden spoons are a fantastic theme for the wood carver. But there is so much more than you can do with that handle as chip carving, oven rack hooks, and relief carving.

Click on the images for a full-sized free spoon carving pattern.

Chip Carving Seminar by Lora Irish
Chip Carving Seminar
Chip Carving Supplies
Chip Carving Graphed Patterns
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Chip Carving – Triangles and Square Chips
Chip Carving – Straight-Wall Chips
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Wood Carving
Four Methods to Cutting a Wooden Spoon Blank
Spoon, Fork, and Ladle Styles for Wood Carving
The Art of Spoon Carving by Lora S. Irish
Wood Carving a Basic Wooden Spoon
Wood Carving Wooden Spoons
Wooden Spoon Burning Patterns
Beginner’s Wood Carving, Spoon Carving
Wood Carving a Basic Wooden Spoon
Styles of Wood Carved Spoons

This oven rack spoon handle is one of the many spoon patterns in Lora S. Irish’s book, Art of Spoon Carving, available at Amazon.com.

For your next new wood carving reading about chip carving, please see Lora Irish’s book, Chip Carving Workshop on Amazon.com.

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Jan 8 2019

Doodle Day #6 – Wood Carving Wooden Spoons

Spoon Carving Projects / By irish

Doodle Day #6 – Wooden Spoon Wood Carving

DIY Bookmaking, Bullet Journals, Scrap Booking, Card Making, Applique Quilting, Pyrography, Wood Carving, Wood Burn Spoons, Wood Carved Spoons, Leather Work, Free Lora S. Irish Patterns to Download

Today is a “nose to the grindstone – shoulder to the wheel” day of work on the upcoming books from Fox Chapel Publishing. So I am off to work and will post something more substantial tomorrow.

In the mean time I highly recommend Fox Chapel’s Wood Carving Illustrated forum.

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Jan 7 2019

Doodle Day #5 – Wooden Spoon Burning Patterns

Spoon Carving Projects / By irish

Doodle Day #5 – Wooden Spoon Burning Patterns

DIY Bookmaking, Bullet Journals, Scrap Booking, Card Making, Applique Quilting, Pyrography, Wood Carving, Wood Burn Spoons, Wood Carved Spoons, Leather Work, Free Lora S. Irish Patterns to Download

Suggested Supply List:

Tea and Coffee Spoons, 5″ long, 12 pack

Oval Spoons, 12″ long, 12 pack

Bath Salts Scoop, 20 pack, 3″ long

Walnut Hollow Creative Tool

Wooden spoons make great projects for any pyrographer. The small bowls, front and back, of the spoon can become your background for these free doodle patterns.

Most manufactured spoons are made from bamboo, beechwood, birch, or poplar – all woods that are excellent for our wood burning.

Since your pattern work is burned – scorched – directly into the wood the design that you create becomes a permanent part of that kitchen utensil.

Happily as wood burners we are not limited to just spoons. Spatulas, forks, knives, and even rolling pins make great pyrography backgrounds.

Links to Wooden Spoon Projects on LSIrish.com

The Art of Spoon Carving

Wood Carving a Basic Spoon

Styles of Wood Carved Spoons

Forks, Spoons, and Ladle Wood Spoon Carving

The Art of Spoon Carving

Carving and Burning a Wooden Spoon

Cross-Crafting Seminar Introduction
Cross-Crafting Seminar Supply List

Cross-Crafting Seminar Free Patterns
Cross-Crafting Seminar, Scroll Saw Basics
Cross-Crafting Seminar, Setting Up Your Scroll Saw
Cross-Crafting Seminar, Scroll Sawing the Wood Spirit Face
Cross-Crafting Seminar, Wood Burning the Wood Spirit Face
Cross-Crafting Seminar, Colored Pencils for the Wood Spirit Face
Cross-Crafting Seminar, Cutting a Wooden Spoon
Cross-Crafting Seminar, Carving a Wooden Spoon

Welsh Love Spoon Carving and Free Pattern

Back to the Basics of Wood Carving

Thanks for reading … more free doodles tomorrow.

The Art of Spoon Carving, Lora S Irish

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Jan 4 2019

Beginner’s Wood Carving, Spoon Carving

Spoon Carving Projects / By irish

While getting the Monday, January 7th free doodle patterns post ready I came across all of these links on wooden spoon wood burning, and wooden spoon wood carving. Since I had them all in one place I thought I would share them with you.

If you wood burn wooden spoons I think you might have some fun learning how to wood carve your own. Basswood blanks are a great wood to start your spoon carving journey. As your carving skills grow you can then move onto poplar, maple, and beechwood – all of which burn well.

If you are a new wood carver there is nothing more fun than creating your own kitchen spoons. Anything goes from the classic straight handle oval-bowled spoon to intrigue Welsh Love spoons, even modern twisted handle pouring ladles. Spoons are one of those ‘guaranteed’ success projects.

Links to Basswood Sources:

Heinecke Wood Products! *** A favorite site for me

The Carving Store *** Ebay, This is a go-to source for pre-cut rectangle and square blanks.

B W Hobbies *** Ebay, offering long basswood boards

petersapienza *** Ebay, offered pre-cut spoon blanks

Links to Wooden Spoon Projects on LSIrish.com

Back to the Basics of Wood Carving

The Art of Spoon Carving

Wood Carving a Basic Spoon

Styles of Wood Carved Spoons

Forks, Spoons, and Ladle Wood Spoon Carving

The Art of Spoon Carving

Carving and Burning a Wooden Spoon In-Depth Project

Cross-Crafting Seminar Introduction

Cross-Crafting Seminar Supply List

Cross-Crafting Seminar Free Patterns

Cross-Crafting Seminar, Scroll Saw Basics

Cross-Crafting Seminar, Setting Up Your Scroll Saw

Cross-Crafting Seminar, Scroll Sawing the Wood Spirit Face

Cross-Crafting Seminar, Wood Burning the Wood Spirit Face

Cross-Crafting Seminar, Colored Pencils for the Wood Spirit Face

Cross-Crafting Seminar, Cutting a Wooden Spoon

Cross-Crafting Seminar, Carving a Wooden Spoon

Welsh Love Spoon Carving and Free Pattern

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Spoon, Fork, and Ladle Styles for Wood Carving

Oct 23 2017

Wood Carving a Basic Wooden Spoon

Spoon Carving Projects / By irish

Today the steps for carving a basic wooden spoon have been posted on my new page – Wood Carving a Basic Wooden Spoon. So go grab your carving kit, gloves, and a 3″ by 1 1/2″ x 12″ basswood blank and join me as we work through the general steps needed to create your own kitchen stirring spoon.

Now before we begin – before some retired mechanical engineer writes me that my project spoon is not a perfectly dissected ovoid or that my handle is not absolutely parallel to the center line of the bowl – just let me say that spoon carving is an art form that has natural imperfections.

Handmade spoons have dings, dents, bends, wobble curves, and even warping handles. No matter how hard you try to sand your spoon perfectly smooth I guarantee that you will discover an area of five that need a little more attention. If you want a “perfect spoon” buy one. If you want to have fun, enjoy your carving, and be really creative … Carve One!

The Art of Spoon Carving Project

The Art of Spoon Carving
Discover why I carve spoons!
Spoon, Fork, and Ladle Styles for Wood Carving, Traditional Spoon Styles and Shapes.
Four Methods to Cutting a Spoon Blank
Wood Carving a Basic Wooden Spoon

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