A Really big Cedar Spoon


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I woke up today feeling really ill. I had big plans to get out for a long outdoors session today (hike, crafting, etc.) but I was feeling like poo before it even started.

So I decided to stay in and heal up...in truth I did go out back and chop a log out of a heavily knotted dead fall cedar tree in the back yard, but the rest of the day I worked on my large knife skills.

I sanded the inside of the bowl but everything else was done entirely with the knife in the picture. The bowl holds just a tad under a quarter cup.

Thanks for looking! I love the way this turned out...It will go in the kitchen drawer.

 
Thanks guys.

I basically use the spoon test as the break-in for any new knife. If I think I have a winner, I head out back and start carving. If I can make a spoon in reasonable time without too many hotspots...its a keeper. I like spoons because of the things I have carved, spoons seem to demand the most in terms of different types of cuts.

I got this knife for myself for Christmas and love it. I would not want to try to make a teaspoon sized spoon with it, but I think it will easily accomplish any task I need in the woods.

Cedar is amazing wood. I am never able to carve a piece without being impressed by the natural beauty of the grain/coloring. If only it were suitable for knife handles...

Thanks again!



 
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super you can do that with the knife. I have a ways to go yet :)
hope you get feeling better.
 
I agree on the use of cedar! I love the way it carves up and I love the way it grows, it gets the most unusual configuratons sometimes. Our Scouts call them Witch trees when we go to the Garden of the Gods.
 
Thanks guys!

Some jobs are easier with a large knife, others have additional challenges. Harvesting the wood and roughing out the shape was pretty easy...and surprisingly so was the detail carving on the handle. The only thing that was difficult on this one was the bowl...that knife has a fairly blunt tip for piercing and prying.

One big lesson I learned was to constantly remember that there is a lot of sharp blade there...when doing the detail work, I failed to remember this simple fact at one point and put a portion of the edge through my glove and into my left index finger tip (it is really sharp). Not a bad cut, but being on the tip of the finger...it is a lesson I hope I learned well;)
 
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