Alder – finished with a coating of olive oil
Pandemic Project
I was once a woodworker – had a home shop, enjoyed getting out there and creating sawdust whenever I had the chance. A few projects worked, others not as well, but I always had fun.
Moving from a house (with space for a shop) to a condo a number of years ago, meant that I had to give up working with wood. I was OK with it, but there was always that desire to return, but never felt that I would have the space.
The pandemic made me start looking around to see what I could do, to keep busy and I started to see youTube videos or blogs about whittling/wood carving.
I liked the idea that very little space was needed. Very few tools were needed. And to get started back into woodwork, would cost a lot less than all of my previous power tools.
I bought a few tools and started watching videos and tried carving faces, etc. and I just couldn’t do it (having zero artistic talent) and then I saw a video about spoon carving…this seemed to be more my style.
Adding a hook knife to my small collection of tools allowed me to make the hollows of spoons an I am now enjoying this. Pictured here are my first 5
