I don’t carve many spoons, but spoon carving is in the air this week. Yesterday I went to the log yard to get a white oak. What looked like the best log had metal in it – a problem for sawmills, but not for riven chair parts – so Junior gave the log to me for free. “Just make me a spatula,” he said as I left. (I split the log open yesterday and didn’t find any metal, just lots of hidden knots). Then today I hauled out my roll of sloyd knives in preparation for a friend’s bachelor party in which one of the events is carving a spoon in my shop.
So in honor of carving, and labor day, and maybe a labor-day spent carving, I’m running a 50%-off sale all the spoon, bowl, and fan-bird-carving videos that I did with Curtis Buchanan, Jane Mickelborough, Peter Follansbee, and Dave Fisher. Plus, a milk paint video with Curtis that has a lot of info on painting spoons.
More info about the videos here.
Happy carving!