Thread: Local spoon carving woods

I don't know what tree types you have down there, but some good woods for making cooking spoons here are cherry, walnut, apple, pear, poplar. I have also made spoons from purpleheart, padauk, olive and a few others. However, I do NOT use a knife and gouges for this. I use a Dremel with carbide burrs (Kutzall) (Flame, Ball, Ball-nose cylinder are most common shapes). I also use a sanding drum for a lot of the shaping of the handle and spoon back. https://www.woodcraft.com/products/s...um-3-x-3-x-1-2 If you are making the fancy love spoons with hearts, celtic knots, etc. I'd still recommend a rotary power tool such as Dremel, Foredom, or WeCheer (or similar)

Claude

Have a look around for Pittosporum Undulatum commonly known as Sweet Pittosporum or Cheesewood among other names. It's native to East Gippsland but considered a weed elsewhere as it has become invasive in other parts of Victoria, the Surf Coast included. It's not a bad carving wood at all. If you do Google search for "Weeds-of-the-Surf-Coast-Shire" you should find a PDF titled the same. Go to page 33 to find out more about the plant. Once familiar with how they look I'm sure you'll see them all over the place.

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Australian wood and spoon carving post by the Spoonsmith Jeff Donne.
https://thisbodger.wordpress.com/201...spoon-carving/
For spoons of the greenwood variety.

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