{"id":1634,"date":"2015-01-04T21:48:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T20:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2025-01-28T12:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T11:22:10","slug":"20150104-carving-a-simple-spoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/?p=1634","title":{"rendered":"2015\/01\/04 &#8211; Carving a simple spoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From these pieces of wood, I chose the right one to be my new spoon.<br \/>\nThis wood I brought back from the forest yesterday while walking my dog there.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?attachment_id=1635\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1635\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_01.jpg\" alt=\"15-01-04-spoon-carving_01\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_01.jpg 800w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_01-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With my carving axe, I cut out the rough shape of the spoon.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?attachment_id=1636\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1636\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_02.jpg\" alt=\"15-01-04-spoon-carving_02\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_02.jpg 800w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_02-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then with the Mora Spoon Knife 164, I carved out the shallow part of the spoon.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?attachment_id=1637\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1637\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_03.jpg\" alt=\"15-01-04-spoon-carving_03\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_03.jpg 800w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_03-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everything else I did with the Mora Carving knife 122.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?attachment_id=1638\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1638\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_04.jpg\" alt=\"15-01-04-spoon-carving_04\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1638\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_04.jpg 800w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_04-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Slowly getting there.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?attachment_id=1639\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1639\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_05.jpg\" alt=\"15-01-04-spoon-carving_05\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_05.jpg 800w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_05-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice to have all the wood chips everywhere \ud83d\ude42 At least it is a good fire starting material for the fireplace.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?attachment_id=1640\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1640\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_06.jpg\" alt=\"15-01-04-spoon-carving_06\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_06.jpg 800w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_06-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I sanded it down with some sandpaper, and then a layer of tung oil, which is food grade oil for wood.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?attachment_id=1641\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1641\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_07.jpg\" alt=\"15-01-04-spoon-carving_07\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_07.jpg 800w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_07-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow another layer, and done.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/?attachment_id=1642\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1642\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_08.jpg\" alt=\"15-01-04-spoon-carving_08\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_08.jpg 800w, https:\/\/dabberty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/15-01-04-spoon-carving_08-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From these pieces of wood, I chose the right one to be my new spoon. This wood I brought back from the forest yesterday while walking my dog there. With my carving axe, I cut out the rough shape of the spoon. Then with the Mora Spoon Knife 164, I carved out the shallow part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1634","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-diy-projects","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabberty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}