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Kitchenware is a fun side project.

When doing spoons, make sure you gouge out the bowl before you cut out the spoon.

Look at artist pages first for ideas

Make Mock-up in corrugated cardboard first, transfer to wood

• Gouge bowl first for spoons
• Make relief cuts
• Make Edge Profile cuts
• Make face cuts
• Shape edges with chisel
• Glue up curvy pieces; beefing up a handle with layers
• Smooth with 3 grades of sandpaper
• Drill hole for hook
• Oil Finish
• Decoration- Don't ruin it at the end!

Materials:

• 1x4 pine
• 1x4 radiata premium pine
• 1x4 padauk, walnut in thin strips
• 1x8 maple

Practice first with soft pine, then glue-up hardwoods

• Simple spoon or spatula
• Flatware
• Built-up blocks and ladles
• Try using found wood doweled together

salad tongs- 1/4" cherry or maple

Butterknife- 1/4" maple

Spoons and spatulas by Jonathan's Wild Cherry Spoons

You can also make a small wall rack with hooks to hold your creations.

Links

• Jonathan's Wild Cherry Spoons
• Cutting Board Project
• Treestump Woodcrafts -Salad Servers, Bowls
• Davin & Kessler- Mirrors,small items
• Crate and Barrel Salad Hands
• Olivewood Utensils- Crate and Barrel
• Meb's Kitchenware-Utensils

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Above: Sushi Board by Davin & Kessler