How to make a wooden spoon with a knife. Handmade wooden spoon. Master class on making a spoon. Preparation for work

It is difficult to find a more indispensable cutlery than a spoon. It can be eaten, cut, used as measuring utensils and for educational purposes, you can cook in it and simply display it as a decoration. And it's also a musical instrument! In Russia and in the Scandinavian countries, historically, spoons were made of wood. In our country, the town of Semenov in the Nizhny Novgorod region became the capital of the spoon craft. At the end of the century before last, about 7 thousand people worked on the manufacture of spoons in the Semenovsky region and they produced more than three million spoons a year. In fact, these are only at first glance huge numbers. Simple math shows that the productivity is one spoon per day per person. The population of the Russian Empire at that time was 129 million people. Thus, it would take 43 years for Semyonov's artisans to cover consumer demand. Therefore, in every village, in almost every house, on long winter evenings, the peasants not only prepared carts and rakes for the summer, but also cut spoons for family needs. I had a choice: to go to Semyonov and rent a production of souvenir Khokhloma spoons, or to find a craftsman and look at modern spoons for everyday use. The craftsman, of course, was found, and all in the same Nizhny Novgorod region. SPOON - well. a tool for slurping, for eating liquids; loafer, shevyrka, eater. pouring spoon, ladle. a wooden spoon (the main craft of the lower lip of the family county) is chopped off from a baklush with an axe, embossed with an adze, sharpened with a knife and cut with a curved cutter, and the stalk and forging on it are sharpened with a saw, by hand. a spoon happens: mezheumok, simple Russian, wide; butyrka, burlatskaya, the same, but thicker and rougher; barefoot, longish, blunt-nosed; semi-flat, rounder than that; nosy, sharp-nosed; fine, generally fine, clean finish. white, i.e., unpainted, first-hand is 9-18 rubles. a thousand banknotes, aspen and birch; maple dyed up to 75 rubles. thousand notes. This is a small excerpt from an article about a spoon in Dahl's explanatory dictionary. The article is so self-sufficient that if I quote it in full, then there will be nothing more to tell. So let's look at the pictures and listen to our today's narrator.
Here he is - Leonid Khazov, who has mastered many professions, but settled on the spoon craft. He really does make a living making spoons and wooden utensils, so doing stuff about him was doubly educational. And in the meantime, I learned a lot of new and interesting things about this ancient craft.
Everything starts prosaically. Leonid takes a ridged deck and splits it in half, and then into a few more poles. The amount depends on the diameter of the deck and the expected number of spoons. One pole - one spoon.
As the master says, anyone can make a spoon with a knife and desire. Yes, the first spoon can be ugly and look more like a crooked spatula, but it can perform its functions. Even the handicraft of spoons for sale uses a rather simple set of tools that can be found in any, probably, home. I am distracted by the story, and in the picture the descent to the future scoop is selected with an ax. Do you know the structure of a spoon? Scooped, held and jumper.
Almost any deciduous tree is suitable as a raw material. Most often, dishes are made from birch, aspen, maple or fruit trees. Conifers are not suitable because of their resinousness and characteristic smell. In Russia, they even made spoons from imported palm trees and they cost ten times more than usual. Now in the photo the spoon is in the stage called “baklusha”. This work was done by apprentices, and the masters brought these blanks-blocks to mind.
With the help of a template, the contour of the future spoon is applied to the buckwheat. Depending on the purpose, they are round, oval, flat, voluminous. And for decorative spoons, the shape is limited only by the imagination of the master.
Each master has his own branded product that is in stable demand, which he makes in bulk on a stream. Knife makers have certain types of knives, blacksmiths have souvenir flowers and horseshoes, and spoons are no exception. Leonid copied the Soviet tablespoon twenty years ago, and with minor changes and improvements, this form has remained the main one.
Clamping the workpiece in a vise, Leonid selects the wood from the future spoon. By the way, unlike other types of wood carving, spoons are cut from raw wood and dried already in finished form. Some masters specially store the ridges in tall grass, so the tree does not dry out.
The ax is used to shape the back of the spoon.
You can continue to work with a hatchet and cut off the side of the bucket to give the intended shape, you can take a hacksaw, or you can also use a jigsaw, which is the fastest. This stage can also be performed with a knife or chisel, the only question is the amount of time spent.
Birch is practically not inferior in strength to oak, but lives as a spoon much longer - oak cracks. As you can see, even with such a rather delicate operation, the master is in no hurry to take up the knife, but wields an ax.
The last swing of the axe. The traditional Russian souvenir spoon is more like a hemisphere: deep, voluminous and not very convenient to use, similar to a ladle or ladle. Here the forms are closer to modern classic oval spoons.
Up to this stage, all the work could be done by a not very skilled journeyman. In principle, another ten minutes of work with a knife and you will have a spoon quite usable in your hand. This is where the work of the master begins. The spoon should be not only functional, but also beautiful.
At the beginning of the post, I mentioned the performance of the Semenov masters. In fact, somewhere in the numbers there is confusion, either fewer people worked, or they cut not only spoons. According to the data for 1905, there were about 1,400 spoons in the Balakhna district of the Nizhny Novgorod district and they produced 13 million spoons, i.e. 25 spoons per day per person. These figures are already close to the truth. Leonid says that one can make fifty spoons in two or three days, but in artels the whole process was divided into stages and divided among workers, which reduced the time for production.
However, Leonid also prefers to make the parties in stages: first he prepares the bucks, then he cuts off everything superfluous on them, and then he takes up the knife and sandpaper. It is believed that from the state of the log to the finished spoon, it must be in the hands of the master at least 13 times. Haven't tested it, you can check for yourself.
The pen is ready, it remains to scrape out the scoop. The wall thickness is 3-4 millimeters, if you make it thinner, the spoon will be lighter and may be more beautiful, but it will last less. The more carefully the excess is removed, the easier it will be to grind later.
As with any craft, there is little time left for creativity. If business feeds you, then you need to make template products, with the implementation of which there will definitely be no problems. Leonid has a well-established sales, his products can be found in Moscow and some major Russian cities. But, of course, he wants to do something new, try some tricks, cut something unusual. Sometimes you are lucky and receive such orders, and sometimes you have to sell what you have done yourself.
This is how another spoon was born after the conversation. In the old days, sales were about the same situation. Spoons, who carved for the owner, received the least, then went those who handed over spoons to merchants in bulk, and those who sold their spoons themselves had the highest income.
Our spoons recover to dry. This is a couple of days in the air in summer or on the stove in winter. Just while a batch of spoons is being made, the previous one has time to dry. Let's finish the historical excursion. Few people realize that the demand for wooden spoons fell only after the Second World War. Then it was replaced by tin and metal spoons, and instead of the Lozhkosoyuz, the Khokhloma Painting association was organized.
While the spoons are drying, we'll take a look at the tools. I have long noticed that the straighter a person's hands, the more unprepossessing the instrument. More precisely, no, it's not. The straighter the arms, the less a person is chasing brands and appearance, and the more he appreciates functionality.
And Leonid has some of the instruments generally homemade. Knives are made of saw blade, the so-called high-speed steel. And there are a lot of them, not because they break often, it's just that Leonid is preparing to conduct master classes in carving and will distribute knives to students.
And here is the cranberries from the bearing cage. The steel there is also well suited for such a tool, so it remains only to find a bearing with a suitable diameter, saw it and weld on the shank. And don't forget to sharpen of course.
At my request, Leonid showed the sharpening process using the example of a semicircular chisel. First, an angle is removed and the notches on a large stone are crimped. Here the main trick is not to overheat the metal, hardening may be released and the tool will be damaged.
Next, the chisel or knife is sharpened on a small stone with a constant supply of water. The edge is sharpened until a uniform burr appears on the opposite side. This is if a chisel, with a knife a little trickier, there you need to sharpen from both sides. And then it's all polished on a leather wheel with GOI paste. Before removing this very burr. The first two procedures are rarely required for a working tool, editing on the skin is usually enough.

The burr on the inside is corrected with fine sandpaper wound on a piece of wood of a suitable diameter. If necessary, again polished on the skin. In general, the same as when sharpening ordinary knives.
Let's get back to our spoons. It used to be that spoons had three grades of processing: front, very good and good. We will make a front spoon, we are not some kind of hacks!
You can grind with sandpaper by hand, you can use the machine. I don’t know what our ancestors polished with, but in the Scandinavian countries a special variety of horsetail was used for this purpose.
Very quickly, the spoon takes on a well-groomed appearance and just asks to be finished as soon as possible and placed next to the plate.

But there is no need to rush. In addition to the fact that the spoon is sanded in several stages, reducing the graininess of the sandpaper, there is one more nuance.
When using a spoon for its intended purpose, it begins to fluff up from the water. It is not critical in the hands, but very unpleasant in the mouth. Therefore, after grinding, it is wetted and dried, and then polished again. And so several times.
Now the spoon is almost ready. Her handle can be decorated with carvings, or some kind of inscription. For example, a name or a saying.
There is also a little trick here: in order for the inscription to turn out even, you need to write it backwards, from the last letter to the first.
And the final touch - the spoon is soaked in ordinary linseed oil. More massive products are immersed in oil and stay in it for some time, but it is enough just to anoint the spoons with a brush, they are so thin that they are soaked through. For about a day, the spoons dry and absorb the oil, then they are wiped with a napkin and that's it, they are ready to please their new owner.
From wooden utensils, as well as from all wooden things made by hand, some kind of warmth emanates. Now I have two spoons, I'm thinking of making a bowl or a plate, or even a whole service.

Some time ago, I remembered my childhood hobby associated of course with woodcarving, these are wooden spoons. Why spoons? Yes, everything is very simple, let's look at the advantages of this type of folk art:

• can be cut almost on the "knee".
• no specially equipped workshop required
• no special tool is needed, if desired, a semicircular chisel and a knife are enough
• almost any material for making a spoon can be taken
• The shape of the spoon is only limited by your imagination.

So let's summarize, you want to do wood carving, but you don't have a workshop for this, a special tool, and here is the output of carved wooden spoons.

To get started, you can see what kind of spoons are cut abroad, for this you can download a book dedicated to this type of woodcarving.

I'll show you the first spoon that I cut out after a very long break using only a semicircular chisel and a regular joint knife.

I cut a few more spoons, but I just can’t take a picture of them in normal quality, as soon as I get it, I’ll definitely post it.

From the remaining pieces I cut out just such a spoon, which I immediately adapted to a wooden barrel in which I store tea

Hover over the photo and you will see the same tea jar.

Spoon carved in the style of carving Tatyanka.

next wooden spoon which I want to show you made just from the very album that is presented for download. The only thing that has changed is that the spoon is made completely voluminous.

The photo of the cut out spoon is interactive, hover over the spoon and you will see it from the other side.

Next carved from a hornbeam. Very heavy cutting material. Plants incisors as if you are cutting not a tree but some kind of abrasive. If I had this sharpening machine while cutting this spoon, how much easier the process of carving a spoon would be. But at the same time, they managed to make a spoon, and this is a copy of an ordinary tablespoon, weighing only 5.6 grams. This is taking into account its impregnation with linseed oil. For reference, the weight of a box of matches is 5.2 grams.

I will add how this spoon was cut, you can see on the video.

Of course, it is very tedious to show the whole cutting process, so I showed how the food was cut out.

Wooden spoon which I called "twig" The material is the remnants of used alder. I just saw it in this form. The length of the spoon is small, only 13 cm.

The next spoon made of wood (alder), just a teaspoon, may well be used for tea, I don’t know how to stir, but putting tea and sugar on it is fine

like all spoons carefully polished and impregnated with linseed oil.

I didn't really like the spoon called the peacock's tail, (this is from the album) But what was born was born, It was cut without pleasure. It seems to me that only the tree was translated.

Let's continue to cut spoons from wood. I present to your court a couple more spoons. One of them is a "curly" spoon. Made according to the drawing from the album that I submitted for the jump above.

And one more spoon, the purpose of which I vaguely imagine, but such a small piece remained, and somehow I immediately saw in it such a shape of a fish. And of course, I quickly took a knife and what is the name of the compartment for everything superfluous.

Put a penny in order to be able to understand what size.

You can order for yourself to cut a spoon. We will always agree on conditions. Just keep in mind that the manufacturing process, cutting a spoon, polishing, oiling and subsequent drying with polishing takes a long time.

Unfortunately, it also happens.

I wanted to make this spoon as elegant as possible, but I overdid it. It’s a pity, of course, but nothing, I’ve already come up with a different shape of the spoon, I’ll cut it.

If you yourself carve spoons or make other crafts from wood or other materials, read the development concept of my site about various wood crafts and more.

The question of sale and how to buy handmade wooden spoons is solved in the classifieds section.

The good old wooden spoon is still indispensable in our technological age. Made of environmentally friendly material, it does not change the taste and quality of products, does not burn, it is pleasant to eat. It can be made even by a novice woodcarver, having a minimum of the most common tools, even on a hike. They make spoons from different woods, in our master class we offer to make a maple spoon. It is durable, does not crack and does not fray after washing. Here is a set of simple tools that we will need to carve a wooden spoon:

hatchet, wood saw, semicircular chisel, rasp, wood file and sandpaper. Also a pencil and ruler. To begin with, we take a log under the future spoon and saw it or split it in half.

Now we draw the outline of the spoon with a pencil.

We take a hacksaw and cut out the spoon along the contour.

With a hatchet we cut off sharp edges and roughly form a scoop from the back side.

Then with a hatchet we create an angle of inclination, first from the side where the scoop will be deepened, and then from the opposite side at the base of the handle.

We round off with a file the place where the handle goes into the scoop.

We finalize with sandpaper, dressed on any round stick.

With a rough rasp, we round off and create the outer shape of the scoop.

We round the handle using a rasp, and then grind everything with sandpaper. With a semicircular chisel, we cut a recess in the ladle, checking the thickness so as not to make it too thin.

Finishing the inside of the spoon with sandpaper. It is convenient to use a wooden blank, rounded at the end, on which the sandpaper is attached crosswise.

After final polishing, you can oil the wooden spoon for durability by immersing it in warm vegetable oil. This is an old recipe. The spoon will be protected from moisture and will not be frizzy after washing. I am often asked: what kind of wood are spoons made of? Most often from linden, alder, aspen, birch, they are easy to process. An oak spoon will crack faster, and an ash one will fluff up. Spoons are not made from coniferous, they contain bitter resin. Successful spoons are obtained from fruit species, the main thing is that the tree is dry enough.

In everyday life, all people use spoons, perhaps except for representatives of some Asian countries who prefer wooden sticks. And when the question arises in choosing this cutlery, many, without much hesitation, go to the store and buy them, focusing on their taste and budget.

A wooden spoon most often has a decorative function, but can also be used for its intended purpose.

Increasingly, people are attracted to wooden utensils, they have a special flavor and it is very pleasant to eat from them. This article will discuss how to make a wooden spoon with your own hands, without much experience and with a minimum number of tools.

Required tool

First you need to decide what should be at hand for the manufacture of wooden spoons:

• Bar- not all breeds are equally good for making spoons, it is best to use aspen, birch, cedar or juniper. The log itself should be well dried;
• Marker- or a pencil, it will be needed to mark the contours of the future spoon on the workpiece;
• Axe- it is best to take a small hatchet, with its help the initial preparation of the bar is carried out;
• Knife- should be comfortable and sharp, it will be needed for finer processing of the workpiece;
• Clucars- a special figured chisel, it is distinguished by a modified shape of the working tip. For the manufacture of do-it-yourself spoons, cranberries with an arcuate tip are used;
• Sandpaper- for polishing a spoon;
• Flax oil– coating with linseed oil will serve as protection against the negative effects of water;
• Drill- a special spherical nozzle for grinding rounded surfaces is sold on it. You can also use a drill to drill a hole for a hook in the handle of a spoon.

DIY step-by-step instructions for making a wooden spoon

Choice of wood

In order for the spoon to be comfortable and practical, it is important to choose the right type of wood. You should stop your look at hardwoods so that the future spoon lasts longer.

For a spoon, you should choose cedar, aspen or juniper.

An ideal option would be a pre-prepared and dried birch or aspen log. If you make a spoon from raw wood, then over time it will bend.

Preparation for work

In order to make a wooden spoon with your own hands, drawings and templates for its manufacture should be prepared in advance. Clarity of the process is the key to success in any business.

The place for hand-made wooden spoons must be freed from unnecessary items, leaving only the necessary.

Workpiece characteristics

When making a wooden spoon from a bar, it should be remembered that it must be of a certain size. For a tablespoon, a bar measuring 300x100x60 mm will fit, where the first digit is the length, the second is the width, the third is the thickness.

If you are using a log, then cut it in half and approximate it to the dimensions above.

markup

Using a marker or pencil, draw the outlines of the future spoon well according to the template. There are many options, although you can come up with them yourself.

Primary processing

With a hatchet, chop off excess wood around the drawn contours of the spoon. Process the workpiece without reaching the edges of the spoon outlined with a marker about 8-10 mm. This step is due to the fact that the fibers of the wood can be twisted after drying, and you will chip off the excess, thereby ruining the workpiece.

Cut the workpiece a little more than the markup, taking into account the final grinding of the product.

It is important to observe safety precautions! Working with an ax in the process of making spoons with your own hands is the most dangerous, carelessness can lead to injury. Watch your fingers before the ax strike!

At the same time, try not to make a margin of more than 1 cm, the process of processing with a knife is more laborious. The more accurately you prepare the workpiece with a hatchet. The less work to do.

Cavity in a spoon

Arm yourself with cranberries and without a hammer, and relying only on the strength of your hands, begin to gradually choose a "hole" in the workpiece. For more accurate work, it is better to draw the wall thickness. The best handmade craftsmen have very thin walls, 4-5mm thick, if this is your first work, then it is better not to risk it and make the walls 7-8mm. You should go deeper, focusing on your own preferences and the thickness of the workpiece.

If there is not enough imagination, then you can draw a circle of the recess by making a template taken from the finished wooden spoon. You can see the solution in the video attached to the post.

Knife processing

Secondary processing will give the wooden spoon an almost final look. The knife should have a short but sharp blade. Carefully cut off any excess. As mentioned above, you can give the shape of a wooden spoon whatever you want, only the imagination and abilities of your hands will become a limitation.

Comment! If you make a spoon with your own hands in nature for urgent purposes, then processing with a knife will be quite enough, eating an ear from roughly processed dishes is even more pleasant.

Many people make the mistake of cutting wood by pointing a knife at extra sections and hitting it with a hammer. This is not worth doing, because of the same twisted fibers. By doing this, you run the risk of ruining the spoon.

The recess in the spoon is most convenient to “choose” with cranberries.

The shape of the handle can also be any, if you want to make a set of wooden spoons, then all typical elements should be in equal proportions, especially handles. To do this, draw templates or download drawings from the Internet. Although a self-made original template will please the eye much more.

Processing the back of a wooden spoon is one of the most crucial moments. Many amateurs, when making their first sample by hand, try to make the spoon too elegant and remove the extra layer in the process of processing.

Important to remember! Wood is a specific material, it is heterogeneous, knots can be found in it, or there may be hidden cavities. When cutting the back side with a knife, be very careful, you can ruin the spoon in the final stage of processing.

Interior surface treatment

For this, a special nozzle on a drill is best suited, they are different. The essence of processing is to grind the concave surface of the spoon without damaging it.

If you do not have a round nozzle, you can replace it with a rubber one with a mount for a sandpaper petal. But in this case, be very careful during the grinding process, you can’t put pressure on the drill, otherwise the fastening bolt, located in the middle of this nozzle, may leave deep grooves on the surface of the spoon.

To fix the spoon should be placed in a vise, holding it in your hands is very dangerous, because the drill can come off and injure you. But it is necessary to fix it with the help of gaskets, this will avoid damage to the surface of the spoon with the vise jaws.

Spoon grinding

One of the most enjoyable processes in making a spoon with your own hands. If you have little experience in working with wood, most likely after processing with a knife, the spoon remained far from ideal. Sandpaper grades from P240 to P280 will help remove irregularities; it is ideal for working with hardwoods.

Grinding is the final stage of manufacturing, performed with sandpaper.

Finer grinding should be done with grades P400 - P600, with their help you can prepare the surface for painting or varnishing.

Water protection

A handmade wooden spoon will serve its owner for a long time if he takes care of its protection from water in a timely manner.

As you know, when regularly wet, wood deteriorates! A variety of oils are used for coating, linseed, tung and others. The choice lies with the manufacturer.

Processing a spoon with oil is not difficult at all, especially if you have made a hole in its handle. In this case, you can completely process the spoon suspended by the hook. After drying, apply another layer of oil on its surface.

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(and you can always find finished products with us) a necessary kitchen attribute in every home, it does not heat up and does not burn, and most importantly, such a spoon does not change the taste and does not oxidize your food. Having a practically minimal set of necessary tools, we will show, using the example of a master class, how to make a wooden spoon with your own hands.

The tools we will need:

- axe
- wood saw
- semicircular chisel
- rasp
- wood file
- sandpaper
- pencil and ruler.

How to make a wooden spoon with your own hands in stages:

The first thing to start with is to take a log and cut it in half, as shown in the image.

Using a pencil, we need to estimate the future contours of our product.

Now, with the help of a hacksaw, we need to cut our future spoon along the office as neatly as possible.

With the help of an ax, we cut off sharp points and try to form a ladle from the back side. After that, with an ax, we set the angle of inclination in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe deepening of the scoop and the handle of our spoon.

After that, we take a file and process it with the transition from the handle to the base of the scoop.

With the help of sandpaper (it is best to put it on something, for example, some small stick), we process the transition, make it smooth.

At this stage, we need a rasp, with its help we round and give the final shape to our scoop, grind everything with sandpaper.

Now we take a semicircular chisel, make a recess and cut out the scoop itself from our spoon, the only thing to be sure to look at is the depth so as not to spoil the product at the last stage.

After that, we use sandpaper again and grind everything, it will be very convenient to wrap it around something round, as in the photo.

After we have finished work, for greater durability, it will be best that you definitely need to heat it, just dip it in it - this is an old recipe that will protect your product. Thus, it will be perfectly protected from moisture (you can not be afraid to wash it) and will not fray.

What can you make a spoon out of? Yes, from almost any type of wood, of course, it is best to exclude oak and ash, they are not very suitable for this.

Video on how to make a wooden spoon with your own hands

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