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10th August 2018, 09:24 AM #1Intermediate Member
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Local spoon carving woods
Hi all, I live down on the surf coast of Victoria and love carving spoons but all the local wood is so hard to carve. Even the prickly tee tree stuff is tough. I got hold of a little bit of English walnut and it was like carving butter compared to my back yard stringy bark trees. My neighbours give me there trimmings every tree down here seems to be tough to carve.
Should I just keep at it or try to source some easier wood to carve ?
Thanks Tony
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10th August 2018, 11:23 AM #2
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
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10th August 2018, 09:03 PM #3
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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10th August 2018, 09:16 PM #4
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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