soup spoon ladle

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  • Trevor W
    24 September 2015 at 3:20 pm #130816

    I’ve been having success making different kitchen utensils from the hard woods on my lot.
    Cherry, ash, beach, maple and oak.
    I have started from both green logs, and dried boards I had milled.
    Could someone please advise on their process to create large soup/ sauna ladles, specifically what the blank looks like?
    thanks

    Brett aka Pheasantww
    25 September 2015 at 11:46 am #130826

    I’v seen this done on on Youtube most notably Peter Follansby. For doing goose necked laddle, he will start with a branch or log that is roughly in that shape. He uses a hatchet to remove a lot of his waste before breaking out the carving knives.

    Derek Long
    25 September 2015 at 12:45 pm #130827

    Popular Woodworking has a free video on the link below to an episode of the Woodwright’s Shop with Roy and Follansbee, carving a spoon from a blank. It has a pretty good crook in the neck, so that’s probably a good example to go off for a ladle. Just make a deeper bowl.

    On that note, Roy and Follansbee really should have their own show. My favorite episodes are ones where those two are together. Great fun.

    http://www.popularwoodworking.com/woodworking-blogs/editors-blog/watch-peter-follansbee-carve-spoons-on-the-woodwrights-shop-free?utm_source=email&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pww-cgb-nl-150921&et_mid=784871&rid=251226517

    Trevor W
    25 September 2015 at 1:41 pm #130828

    Thanks, I’ll check out the link. Do you know of a method in which one may produce a ladle with the bowl perpendicular to the handle from a straight log?
    I was thinking i’d split the log, then use a stop cut 3/4 of the way down and split the waste away leaving an area suitable for a bowl facing up toward the handle…
    has anyone tried this method?
    thanks

    Matt McGrane
    25 September 2015 at 8:00 pm #130829

    If I understand your explanation correctly, it sounds like you’ll have to carve out the bowl into end grain. Could be tough on you and your gouges. Maybe some woods are better for this than others.

    Trevor W
    26 September 2015 at 2:41 pm #130841

    spoons in wood

    thanks Matt, i’m starting to see this as the most common way to get what i’m after. this would avoid the end grain.
    I hope this photo worked.?

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