Spoon Carving Question

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Re: Spoon Carving Question

Excellent and many thanks, RV! Simple formula... Veg oil the spoon up good, 3.5 minutes in a 325F oven and let cool. Even I can remember that much!

Would doing this 2x or 3x be beneficial or is once all that’ll be needed?

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Re: Spoon Carving Question

Thanks for the invite, but I can’t. I’m just going to do a couple plain functional kitchen use spoons for Xmas presents. Unfortunately, the amount of time per week that I can put into carving is very limited these days. I’ll be lucky...

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Re: Spoon Carving Question


Really! “Inquiring minds wanna know” as they used to say in some TV commercial a long time ago......

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I’ve read everything I can find about what are the preferred woods to use when carving functional wooden spoons for kitchen use. Most of what I found was about what woods may have toxins in them, and one wood that I wasn’t able to find any mention of was Basswood.

Is Basswood a good...

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Re: Comfort Bird

Good article! As a side thought... any time I want to find a template or something to get me started on design ideas for a project, I just search the project subject in Google Images. I always find several leads to start me off, and some of them will usually lead...

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Re: ~ ~ Cramming for Christmas Artist Sale ~~

Excellent work all around, but I particularly like the doors. You’ve started me off into another bout of ‘future project dreaming’ and goodness only knows where those doors will end up taking me this time...

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A tree service company is clearing out a patch of woods along the side of an elementary school property near where I live. There are a number of beautiful maples (and maybe some other hardwoods) in the area that’s being clear-cut.

I talked with the tree company guy today and I have...

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Re: I give up!


Steev---Is there any chance my few saved PMs in the old forum format could be retrieved and I could get them back?...

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Re: I give up!

I wish this forum was the way it used to be. It had its shortcomings but so does everybody and everything else in this life. I don’t think anything was broken so I don’t understand the efforts to fix it.

I used to have some great PMs about sharpening...

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Re: Timberdoodle AKA woodcock in process

Looks good.

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