In-depth videos about spoon, bowl, and bird carving. After making a payment, you will receive an e-mailed password to view and download the video. If you don’t get the e-mail within a half-hour, please e-mail me (but first check your e-mail spam folder).
FRENCH SPOON CARVING with JANE MICKELBOROUGH & ELIA BIZZARRI
Two Parts, Totaling 4 Hours
Jane Mickelborough joins us from France as she teaches us to make a traditional Breton wooden spoon complete with chip-carving and wax inlay. Purchase on the French Spoon Carving page.
BOWL CARVING with DAVE FISHER & ELIA BIZZARRI
Three Parts, Totaling 9 Hours
From choosing a log to hewing, carving and finishing, Dave covers every aspect of the process with clarity and detail. Purchase on the Bowl Carving page.
SPOON CARVING with PETER FOLLANSBEE & ELIA BIZZARRI
Two Parts, Totaling 4 Hours
The master of the ax, Peter Follansbee hews and carves a serving spoon and talks about everything from choosing wood to finishing the spoon. Purchase on the Follansbee Spoon Carving page.
SPOON CARVING with CURTIS BUCHANAN & ELIA BIZZARRI
Steam bent spoon blanks allow a higher yield from the log while maintaining strength. Curtis shows his process for bending and carving a spoon. Purchase on the Buchanan Spoon Carving page.
FAN BIRDS with JANE MICKELBOROUGH & ELIA BIZZARRI
Jane Mickelborough joins us from France as she teaches us to make traditional Scandinavian and Russian fan birds. These magical birds can be carved and bent from a single piece of wood in a matter of minutes. Jane usually makes them in the style of hummingbirds with long beaks, but the techniques can be used to make dolls, mobiles and earrings and more. It’s the perfect craft to learn right before Valentine’s Day!
Jane and Elia demonstrate how to carve, split and bend the feathers, talk about tools, make a few birds, show some short how-to videos, and answer all your questions. We also talk about how to make a riving knife like the one Jane uses to split the tail feathers. $20 suggested purchase price.
orMILK PAINT FINISH with CURTIS BUCHANAN & ELIA BIZZARRI
Curtis and I talk about painting spoons and Democratic chairs with milk paint. We cover preparing the surface for paint, mixing and applying milk paint, brush choices, crackle finishes, rubbing the paint out to create a sheen, and top coat options. This is recording is called Democratic Chair pt. 7 elsewhere on this website, but we spend as much time painting spoons as chairs. Plus Q&A session.
