How to Carve Salt Scoops

Carving is easier with the Proxxon Carver MSG. Use this pattern to carve your own salt scoops.

Supplies and Equipment for Carving Salt Scoops

• Food-safe, hardwood blank approximately 2½" x 2" x ½" 
• Proxxon Scroll Saw DX 460
• Proxxon Carver MSG
• Proxxon Professional Rotary Tool and Drill Stand
• Scoop pattern

Instructions for Carving Salt Scoops

1. Print the scoop pattern.

   

   Scoop Pattern

2. Prepare the blank by covering with painter's tape.
   
3. Spray adhesive on the back of the pattern and mount to the prepared blank. The painter's tape makes it easy to mount the pattern and to remove it without leaving any sticky residue on the wood.
   
4. Cut the basic shape of the scoop on the scroll saw.
   
5. Carve out the bowl and handle of the scoop with the Proxxon Carver. Work slowly, removing small amounts of wood at a time. Let the carver do the work.
   
6. Mount the rotary tool in the drill stand and rotate 90°. Insert a sanding drum in the rotary tool. Sand the surfaces of the carved scoop.
   
7. Treat the finished scoop with food-safe oil. Oils for butcher blocks is perfect.
   
8. Enjoy!!
   

Carole

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