Here’s the scoop — this is fun and easy!

Hand carved wooden spoons, lovingly crafted, deserve the best finish to seal them.

In this hand carved wooden coffee scoop tutorial, I show you how to make a coffee scoop out of walnut. In recent months, I’ve fallen in love with carving and making wooden spoons and scoops. In this tutorial, I’ve set aside all power tools except for the jigsaw. Carving forces you and your hands to...

Carving spoons is so relaxing to me, so I decided to experiment with finding the quickest way for me to create a spoon blanks so I can get to carving!

Okay…who’s bringing the ice cream?

A simple woodworking project you can complete in a few hours, and will be useful for a lifetime.

For beginners, this can be a little overwhelming. You can narrow down your selection with the following sweeping statements. Don’t use softwoods (e.g. pines and spruces), don’t use ring porous species (e.g. oaks and ashes). Of course, you can carve a spoon from any wood but diffuse-porous wood tends

I have a beautiful wooden spoon, one of my favorite things in my kitchen. It was carved by hand and because of that, it was expensive. Totally worth it, in my view, but a once in a lifetime purchase for me. Every now and then I wish I could afford to give one as a gift but cost prohibits. So when I stumbled on an old article from Mother Earth News on how to carve your own wooden spoon, I was intrigued.

"Another new skill I developed on the farm has given me options on a far greater scale, eventually becoming the biggest part of my professional identity, what I do with most of my time, and what I am known for around the world. I am talking, oddly enough, about spoon carving. Spoon carving is one of those strange activities that seems so niche that you couldn’t possibly make any money doing it." —Emmet Van Drieche, Carving Out a Living on the Land #DIY #spoon #carving #stayhome #woodcarving

A few weeks ago I completed my New Year’s Resolution for 2015 – to make a spoon for each week of the year. This was by far the best new year’s resolution I had ever done. I can…