Spoon Carving Tools, how to videos and useful info
Spoon carving Tools
Spoon carving Axes
• Bacho axe 600g (not 800g) around £15 from Amazon/ Toolden.co.uk etc
• Bacho but reground (sharpened well) £35.00 Ben and Lois Orford benandloisorford.com/store/
• Wood Tools Uk – Robin Wood carving axe £49.00, cover £17.50 (recommended)
• Gransford bruks carving axe £114 - £170 - Heavy, Small, Middle Ground from £167.95 Woodsmith
Spoon carving knives
• Mora 164 spoon carving knife - choose right or left handed – £35 Knife with a sheath from us or from Woodsmith
• Wood Tools compound (popular) or opencurve (good for finishing shallow spoon bowls) £45
Woodwork Sloyd Knives
• Mora 106 (blade 82mm) recommended when experienced around £20 from Woodsmith
• Mora 120 Sloyd knife (blade 60mm) recommended for starters and experienced alike – £24 with a plastic sheath from us
Chopping blocks – We make your own. Good online info or one of the below books.
How to sharpen spoon carving knives, axes and tools
Here are some useful names we recommend to check out online for sharpening and tools;
Sean Hellman
Nic Westerman
ZED outdoors
Robin Wood - Wood tools
How to sharpen videos we recommend:
How much pressure to apply when sharpening a spoon carving tool - by Sean Hellman on YouTube
Sharpening spoon carving knives YouTube video by Zed outdoors interviewing Ben Orford
Sharpening carving knife part 3 by Hewn and Hone
Spoon Carving Blanks
If you don’t have the space or the tools to make your own spoon carving blanks, The Spoon Crank sell a variety of spoon blanks.
Other useful spoon carving Resources
If you want to carry on spooncarving, there are lots of good how to videos and spoon carving clubs.
Google ‘barn the spoon’ for videos on YouTube, here’s one
www.Spoonclub.co.uk for videos and local clubs
Guildford spoon club on Instagram (ask Adrian here at Joy Farms about coming along, he set it up!)
What kind of oil to use to treat carved spoons and bowl turning
See our blog on treating your carved spoon or turned bowl
Recommended spoon carving books
The Forest Worker by Sjors Van Der Merr and Job Suijker
Wood Craft by Barn the Spoon
We also have another blog with a list of most of the Spoon carving and woodwork books Adrian has bought over the years.
Once you start Googling the spoon world opens up!
There’s lots on Instagram too!
Learn to carve a Spoon
Teaching yourself using online tutorials and books will get you far and is how Adrian - here at Joy Farms started. It will take you longer to get good and you may pick up bad habbits. We recommend learning with an experienced spoon carving.
We have a number of 1 day and 1/2 day spoon carving courses - see upcoming dates
If you don’t live near Surrey, feel free to email Adrian for recommendations nearer to you.
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Further reading:
What kind of oil to use to treat carved spoons and bowl turning
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