What kind of wood spoons are made of. We cut out a wooden spoon with our own hands. We bring to the ideal state

Spoons are a very ancient cutlery, which no family in the whole world can do without today. The history of the wooden spoon dates back to the Paleolithic era. It was then that people began to use small pieces of the found wooden debris to scoop up liquid food. In Ancient Russia and the Scandinavian countries, it was spoons that took root. They, like other dishes, were made of wood. The first mention of this cutlery is found in the "Tale of Bygone Years", in the description of Prince Vladimir's feast, and is dated 996. They were made from different types of wood: birch, aspen and maple.

Application

Wooden cutlery is still very convenient in everyday life - they are very well suited for stirring hot food and cooking it in non-stick cookware. Do not forget that wood is an environmentally friendly, inexpensive and widespread material. Spoon handles are often decorated with paintings. The carving can be primitive, or it can represent a whole work of art.

And this is not all of its advantages, because in our country wooden spoons are an original musical instrument. The traditions of playing it have deep roots. People have long noticed that if you lightly hit these objects against each other, you can hear a very pleasant clear sound. Nowadays, this cutlery occupies an important place among percussions in any Russian folk orchestra. The spectators are greatly impressed by the spoon dance ensembles and skilful soloists.

Manufacturing

You can make wooden spoons yourself. This will require a small set of basic tools and material. Before starting work, you need to prepare the following items:

• Axe.
• Hand saw.
• File for wood.
• Rounded chisel.
• Rasp.
• Sandpaper of different calibers.
• Pencil.
• Dry wood.

When choosing a material, it is better to focus on such species as linden, aspen, alder, birch. They work well and are easy to handle and will not lint when used. For comparison: a wooden spoon made of oak with your own hands will crack, and an ash one will release villi. Conifers are not used for the manufacture of items that come into contact with food, because due to the resin, the dishes will acquire a bitter taste.

Step-by-step instruction

The selected piece of log must be sawn or cut in half with an ax. On the flat side, the outline of the upcoming product is outlined with a pencil. Then the unnecessary areas are removed with a saw. With the help of an ax, it is necessary to first shape the outer rounded part. It is also necessary to cut the wood layer to create the desired angle between the ladle and the handle. The place of their connection should be rounded off with a file.

The next step is sanding. Coarse sandpaper can be used to remove rough elements. And in order for a wooden spoon to be more pleasant to the touch (it's not so difficult to make it with your own hands), you need to complete the process with a "zero". For greater convenience, we wrap a stick in the grinding element.

Next, you should start cutting the groove. With the help of a chisel, wood is scraped out of the workpiece with small pieces. It is imperative to monitor the thickness so that it does not turn out to be too small. Next, you need to clean the wood. To do this, you can attach two strips of sandpaper to a stick with a rounded end, placing them crosswise. After finishing the work, ready-made wooden spoons can be soaked in vegetable oil. To improve the absorption process, the liquid is heated.

Mass production

Nowadays, wooden tableware is experiencing a new peak in popularity. The eyes of people are drawn to these kitchen elements due to their natural origin. Individual enthusiasts or entire communities even form ecovillages, in addition, people are trying to exchange plastic appliances for wooden spoons and plates. Therefore, whole sets turned on machine tools became very popular.

For the manufacture of dishes in large volumes, turning equipment, chisels, cutters, spoon knives, brushes with steel bristles and much more are used. All this resembles tools for household work, only tools for working in a factory are more professional. If the manufacture of wooden spoons has gone without flaws, then the product will be very convenient to use.

Thread

Often, wooden dishes are decorated. It can be either a simple drawing or intricate patterns. It all depends on the skill and desire of the master. If a person has little experience in creating ornaments, then you can turn to specialized sites. They present a large amount of materials of varying complexity.

If you know that the work will be limited to one or two items, then there is no point in purchasing many different tools. Using the available tools, you can also decorate wooden spoons. Photo showcases various gadgets for professionals. These are jamb knives, flat, angular and semicircular chisels, clues, jigsaw, rasps. However, for a simple pattern, a sharpened knife will be enough. It is best if the blade is short and wide.

A drawing with a pencil (if geometric, then using a ruler) is applied to a raw handle, or an ornament is copied from tracing paper. Most often, the thread has a three-sided recess. In order to complete it, you need to draw two auxiliary ones on the sides of the main line of the drawing, indicating the width of the cut. First, the main strip is cut strictly vertically. Then the knife is placed against the side marks and cuts are made at an angle of 45 degrees. Then the procedure is repeated from the opposite side. The cut wood itself should come out of the resulting groove.

If the pattern is more ornate, then it is executed with the same grooves, but less deep. The main cut is made along the marking line. You do not need to draw construction paths to make side cuts. Small fluctuations in the shape of the groove are allowed to emphasize the relief of the image.

Souvenirs

Like many other things, nowadays, dishes are often a souvenir. Spoons and plates can be covered with traditional painting or intricate carvings, which often deteriorate with frequent use in everyday life. To add durability to the picture, painted souvenirs are varnished. However, such products are not recommended for cooking or eating. Their function is completely different - these are exclusively souvenirs and decor items.

Spoons are a very ancient cutlery, which no family in the whole world can do without today. The history of the wooden spoon dates back to the Paleolithic era. It was then that people began to use small pieces of the found wooden debris to scoop up liquid food. In Ancient Russia and the Scandinavian countries, it was spoons that took root. They, like other dishes, were made of wood. The first mention of this cutlery is found in the "Tale of Bygone Years", in the description of Prince Vladimir's feast, and is dated 996. They were made from different types of wood: birch, aspen and maple.

Application

Wooden cutlery is still very convenient in everyday life - they are very well suited for stirring hot food and cooking it in non-stick cookware. Do not forget that wood is an environmentally friendly, inexpensive and widespread material. Spoon handles are often decorated with paintings. The carving can be primitive, or it can represent a whole work of art.

And this is not all of its advantages, because in our country wooden spoons are an original musical instrument. The traditions of playing it have deep roots. People have long noticed that if you lightly hit these objects against each other, you can hear a very pleasant clear sound. Nowadays, this cutlery occupies an important place among percussions in any Russian folk orchestra. The spectators are greatly impressed by the spoon dance ensembles and skilful soloists.

Manufacturing

You can make wooden spoons yourself. This will require a small set of basic tools and material. Before starting work, you need to prepare the following items:

• Axe.
• Hand saw.
• File for wood.
• Rounded chisel.
• Rasp.
• Sandpaper of different calibers.
• Pencil.
• Dry wood.

When choosing a material, it is better to focus on such species as linden, aspen, alder, birch. They work well and are easy to handle and will not lint when used. For comparison: a wooden spoon made of oak with your own hands will crack, and an ash one will release villi. Conifers are not used for the manufacture of items that come into contact with food, because due to the resin, the dishes will acquire a bitter taste.

Step-by-step instruction

The selected piece of log must be sawn or cut in half with an ax. On the flat side, the outline of the upcoming product is outlined with a pencil. Then the unnecessary areas are removed with a saw. With the help of an ax, it is necessary to first shape the outer rounded part. It is also necessary to cut the wood layer to create the desired angle between the ladle and the handle. The place of their connection should be rounded off with a file.

The next step is sanding. Coarse sandpaper can be used to remove rough elements. And in order for a wooden spoon to be more pleasant to the touch (it's not so difficult to make it with your own hands), you need to complete the process with a "zero". For greater convenience, we wrap a stick in the grinding element.

Next, you should start cutting the groove. With the help of a chisel, wood is scraped out of the workpiece with small pieces. It is imperative to monitor the thickness so that it does not turn out to be too small. Next, you need to clean the wood. To do this, you can attach two strips of sandpaper to a stick with a rounded end, placing them crosswise. After finishing the work, ready-made wooden spoons can be soaked in vegetable oil. To improve the absorption process, the liquid is heated.

Mass production

Nowadays, wooden tableware is experiencing a new peak in popularity. The eyes of people are drawn to these kitchen elements due to their natural origin. Individual enthusiasts or entire communities even form ecovillages, in addition, people are trying to exchange plastic appliances for wooden spoons and plates. Therefore, whole sets turned on machine tools became very popular.

For the manufacture of dishes in large volumes, turning equipment, chisels, cutters, spoon knives, brushes with steel bristles and much more are used. All this resembles tools for household work, only tools for working in a factory are more professional. If the manufacture of wooden spoons has gone without flaws, then the product will be very convenient to use.

Thread

Often, wooden dishes are decorated. It can be either a simple drawing or intricate patterns. It all depends on the skill and desire of the master. If a person has little experience in creating ornaments, then you can turn to specialized sites. They present a large amount of materials of varying complexity.

If you know that the work will be limited to one or two items, then there is no point in purchasing many different tools. Using the available tools, you can also decorate wooden spoons. Photo showcases various gadgets for professionals. These are jamb knives, flat, angular and semicircular chisels, clues, jigsaw, rasps. However, for a simple pattern, a sharpened knife will be enough. It is best if the blade is short and wide.

A drawing with a pencil (if geometric, then using a ruler) is applied to a raw handle, or an ornament is copied from tracing paper. Most often, the thread has a three-sided recess. In order to complete it, you need to draw two auxiliary ones on the sides of the main line of the drawing, indicating the width of the cut. First, the main strip is cut strictly vertically. Then the knife is placed against the side marks and cuts are made at an angle of 45 degrees. Then the procedure is repeated from the opposite side. The cut wood itself should come out of the resulting groove.

If the pattern is more ornate, then it is executed with the same grooves, but less deep. The main cut is made along the marking line. You do not need to draw construction paths to make side cuts. Small fluctuations in the shape of the groove are allowed to emphasize the relief of the image.

Souvenirs

Like many other things, nowadays, dishes are often a souvenir. Spoons and plates can be covered with traditional painting or intricate carvings, which often deteriorate with frequent use in everyday life. To add durability to the picture, painted souvenirs are varnished. However, such products are not recommended for cooking or eating. Their function is completely different - these are exclusively souvenirs and decor items.

The good old wooden spoon is still irreplaceable in our technological age. Made of eco-friendly material, it does not change the taste and quality of food, does not burn, it is pleasant to eat. You can even make it to a novice woodcarver, having a minimum of the most common tools, even on a hike. Spoons are made from different wood, in our master class we propose to make a spoon from maple. It is durable, does not crack or frizzy after washing. Here is a set of simple tools that we need to carve a wooden spoon:

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

Now draw the outline of the spoon with a pencil.

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

Cut off the sharp edges with a hatchet and roughly form a scoop from the back.

Then, with a hatchet, create an angle of inclination, first from the side, where there will be a recess of the scoop, 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 finish it with sandpaper, dressed on any round stick.

Round off with a rough rasp and create the outer shape of the scoop.

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

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

After final sanding, you can coat the wooden spoon with oil for durability by immersing it in warm vegetable oil. This is an old recipe. The spoon will be protected from moisture and will not frizzy after washing. I am often asked: what 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 spoon will nap. Spoons are not made from conifers, they contain a bitter resin. Successful spoons are obtained from fruit species, the main thing is that the tree is dry enough.

In the age of impersonal mass production, you want to have something truly unique in your home.

Removing the size of the spoon

In order to make your own spoon, it is not necessary to determine the parameters of the future product and scrupulously make calculations. It is enough to put a spoon, taken as a sample, on a piece of wood prepared in advance and trace along the contour. Then we cut out the resulting shape and circle it again, but this time along the end side. Thus, we will receive a workpiece for further processing.

Grinding a wooden spoon

You need to feel like Michelangelo - and act according to his principle: "I take a block of marble and cut off everything unnecessary from it." Taking a chisel or grinding tools in hand, carefully remove everything unnecessary from a piece of wood, from time to time comparing the resulting product with the original.

When forming a "scoop", it is better to use a previously prepared drill with grinding attachments or a nap. This part of the job is quite difficult and requires a lot of patience.

We bring to the ideal state

Having received the given shape, we process the spoon with a sandpaper, starting with a grain size of 100 and ending with 150. We carefully go through every centimeter of the surface, remembering that the attractiveness of the finished thing largely depends on this work.

Finishing the wooden spoon

Now the spoon needs to be washed and allowed to dry. Further, depending on whether you plan to use the spoon as an accessory or as a cutlery, we cover it with varnish or linseed oil. Sometimes folk craftsmen use sea buckthorn oil, but it is reliably known that since ancient times in Russia all wooden dishes were soaked in linseed oil.

How to make a wooden spoon with your own hands: photo

You can take any spoon of your favorite shape as a sample.

1. We outline the sample along the contour and cut out the workpiece.
2. We circle and cut out the workpiece from the end.
3. For rough processing, you can use an electric sharpener.
4. Finish with sandpaper.

To make a spoon from wood, you will need

• Spoon - sample for sizing
• A piece of wood of the appropriate format
• Band saw or jigsaw
• Chisels
• Sanding paper of various grain sizes
• Attachment for mechanical grinding (attachments for a drill or dremel, electric sharpener)
• A lot of patience

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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 dining utensil, 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 it can also be used for its intended purpose.

More and more people are attracted by wooden dishes, they have a special flavor and it is very pleasant to eat from them. This article will focus on how to make a wooden spoon with your own hands without much experience and with a minimum of tools.

Required tool

First, you need to decide what should be at hand for making 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 must be well dried;
• Marker- or a pencil, it will be required to mark the contours of the future spoon on the workpiece;
• Axe- it is best to take a small hatchet, with its help the primary preparation of the bar is carried out;
• Knife- should be comfortable and sharp, it will be needed for more delicate processing of the workpiece;
• Cluckars- a special figured chisel, it differs in the changed shape of the working point. For making spoons with your own hands, cranberries with an arched point are used;
• Sandpaper- for grinding a spoon;
• Flax oil- coating with linseed oil will serve as protection against the negative effects of water;
• Drill- a special ball-shaped attachment for grinding rounded surfaces is sold on it. You can also use a drill to drill a hook hole in the handle of the spoon.

Step-by-step instructions for making a wooden spoon with your own hands

Choice of wood

In order for the spoon to turn out to be convenient and practical, it is important to choose the right type of wood. You should stop your gaze on hard types of wood, so that the future spoon would last longer.

For a spoon, 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 making it 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 what is necessary.

Workpiece characteristics

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

If you are using a piece of wood, cut it in half and approximate the dimensions shown above.

Markup

Using a marker or pencil, draw well the contours of the future spoon along the template. There can be many options, although you can come up with them yourself.

Primary processing

Use a hatchet to chop off excess wood around the outlines of the spoon. Work 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 wood fibers can be twisted after drying, and you will chip off the excess, thereby spoiling the workpiece.

Cut the workpiece a little more markings, 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 injuries. Watch your fingers before hitting the ax!

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

Spoon cavity

Arm yourself with cranberries and without a hammer, and relying only on the strength of your hands, start gradually choosing 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 job, 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 imagination is not enough, then you can draw a circle of the recess by making a template taken from a 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. Cut off any excess carefully. As mentioned above, you can give the shape of a wooden spoon whatever you want, only the imagination and the abilities of your hands will become a limitation.

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

Many people make the mistake of cutting wood by guiding a knife into excess areas and hitting it with a hammer. This is not worth doing, because of the same twisted fibers. By doing so, you risk spoiling the spoon.

Deepening in a spoon is most handy 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 the typical elements should be in equal proportions, especially the handle. To do this, draw templates or download drawings from the Internet. Although the original template made with your own hands will delight the eye much more.

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

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

Internal surface treatment

For this, a special drill attachment 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 an attachment for a sandpaper petal. But in this case, be very careful during the grinding process, you cannot press 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 it, the spoon should be placed in a vice, it is very dangerous to hold it in your hands, because the drill can jump off and injure you. But it is necessary to fix it with gaskets, this will avoid damage to the surface of the spoon with the jaws of the vice.

Grinding a spoon

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 to remove irregularities, it is ideal for working with hard wood species.

Grinding is the final stage of manufacturing, carried out with sandpaper.

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

Water resistant

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, with regular wetting, wood deteriorates! Various oils are used for coating, linseed, tung and others. The choice lies with the manufacturer.

Oiling a spoon is easy, especially if you've made a hole in the handle. In this case, you can completely process the spoon suspended from the hook. After drying, apply another layer of oil to its surface.

We hope the question of how to make a wooden spoon with your own hands is completely exhausted. As you can see, there is nothing complicated in this process, and it is possible that making wooden dishes will become your new hobby.

Video: DIY wooden spoon