How to Carve a Wooden Spoon

Who doesn't love using a wooden spoon while cooking?! Even better if that wooden spoon is hand carved. It's not as hard as you think. Here's how to carve a wooden spoon.

Supplies and Equipment for Carving a Wooden Spoon

• Solid piece of wood 1" thick and long enough to accommodate bowl and handle of spoon
• Proxxon MICRO Bandsaw MBS/E
• Proxxon Scroll Saw DS 46
• Proxxon Power Carver MSG
• Proxxon Delta Sander OZI/E

Instruction for Carving a Wooden Spoon

1. Trace the shape of your wooden spoon onto the wood blank. 
   
2. Your shape may vary. Here's the one I used.
   
3. Cut the curves on the scroll saw.
   
4. Cut straight edges on the bandsaw.
   
5. You will have a spoon blank—a solid block of wood roughly in the shape of a spoon.
   
6. Begin by carving the inside of the bowl of the spoon using the power carver and a bowl gouge blade. When you're satisfied with the inside of the bowl, begin carving and shaping the under side of the bowl and, lastly, the handle. You now have a carved spoon.
   
7. Sand all surfaces using the Delta sander and hand sanding. Use progressively finer grits of sandpaper from 100 to 220.
8. Finish the wooden spoon with a coating of food grade wood oil. The kind used for butcher blocks is perfect.
   
9. Stir up a big pot of soup, and enjoy your hand carved wooden spoon.
   

Carole