https://wemake.co/crafts/greenwoodworking-all/ Activity feed for the group, green woodworking. Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:24:50 -0700 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.20.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 4543b1037231116531d524abeeb03ea8 https://wemake.co/activity/p/2929/ Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:35:07 -0700 0 138ef1c220dda948267d3240c8423b35 https://wemake.co/activity/p/2924/ Wed, 27 Aug 2025 14:43:06 -0700 2 56c2529e71c18bd57ba0210d4754d03f https://wemake.co/activity/p/2859/ Wed, 14 May 2025 01:05:34 -0700 A recent spoon carved from butternut and sized to fit in a pocket.

]]> 1 54c7d1412ba10020a0605a9ac4585e82 https://wemake.co/activity/p/2598/ Thu, 06 Mar 2025 00:08:52 -0800 Baked Beech Eating Spoon with milk paint inlay

]]> 0 998e90398cce15392ccd63b72288c5ee https://wemake.co/activity/p/2597/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 23:54:25 -0800 Folk pattern inlay

]]> 0 8499bac6772d2b33ca697cea9bf057b0 https://wemake.co/activity/p/2596/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 23:47:01 -0800 0 e1c34b5656b024c1634de4a577d8d6bc https://wemake.co/activity/p/2595/ Wed, 05 Mar 2025 23:41:15 -0800 Inspired by the 16th Century Vasa Spoons

]]> 0 fb87779fd2c93089df241f6c803af981 https://wemake.co/activity/p/2500/ Fri, 14 Feb 2025 22:34:07 -0800 Easing my way back into some carving amid recovering from a tendon injury. Couldn’t resist carving a little spoon from a cherry off cut when making a box of spoon blanks to ship out.

]]> 6 f631acdcc47992156a590f08bd570b34 https://wemake.co/activity/p/2351/ Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:41:58 -0800 A selection of eating spoons from Lime, Cherry, Arbutus, Roasted Holly, Baked Cherry and Spalted Beech

]]> 2 ed28c791364c7c0c2d20526967932789 https://wemake.co/activity/p/2350/ Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:38:21 -0800 Roasted cherry with chipcarved pattern

]]> 0 f0009f4621522fa319b268febaead940 https://wemake.co/activity/p/2349/ Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:34:40 -0800 Roasted Cherry with inlayed Folk pattern

]]> 0 e97812bf48b53aa370816e379feea322 https://wemake.co/activity/p/2348/ Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:32:02 -0800 Chipcarved Folk Pattern Inlay

]]> 1 8739524c743119520a3a23d631b5d726 https://wemake.co/activity/p/2342/ Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:10:01 -0800 Whatever your experience, Spooncarving: From Log to Spoon has all the instructions you need to carve beautiful spoons from logs of green wood. Author Alex Finberg walks you through every stage of the process with clear explanations and some 400 stunning photos. At the core of the book is a 25-step sequence that illustrates how to carve a… Read more

]]> 0 2e217af3baf598e246cb2873421b88e2 https://wemake.co/activity/p/2189/ Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:39:15 -0800 This is a “spanel”, the name in Britanny for a special tool. Britanny is very well known for “crêpe et galette” , pancake and crepe. The spanel is a specialised kind of spatula used to turn and fold the pancake or the crepe when cooking on the “billig”. Made from an aspen that fell during a storm.

]]> 0 8e4291bb5d758b587fcddf2914c6ef9c https://wemake.co/activity/p/2181/ Sun, 27 Oct 2024 13:37:30 -0700 this spoon is in the form of a spoon from the Quimper area of Brittany, but it is decorated with wax inlay a pattern that is usually found on traditional instruments (bombarde and biniou) from the same area.

]]> 0 7750105c76a2427be656e8a56545a938 https://wemake.co/activity/p/2170/ Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:46:13 -0700 This spoon in in the style of spoons that were made in the pays Vannetais in the mid 19th century.

]]> 0 e680a85b8b63070d5f5679f12a74592c https://wemake.co/activity/p/2151/ Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:14:01 -0700 A boxwood spoon, with a double hinge and inlays of nacre (mother-of-pearl), brass and black sealing wax. This is a modern interpretation of the traditional decorated spoons made in the west of Brittany up to the 1st WW. These spoons were often made to fold, and were richly decorated with carving and inlays.

]]> 0 877900d813e08f70ade2ddb7c1706a4e https://wemake.co/activity/p/2145/ Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:07:54 -0700 These two spoons are made in the style of the “cuillères d’apparat” or party spoons from Brittany that were made in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Their coloured decoration is an inlay of sealing wax into a chip-carved pattern. This type of decoration was typical of spoons from the Finistère region of Brittany.

]]> 2 9d867263c78610a41aa364d171836fe1 https://wemake.co/activity/p/2144/ Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:01:43 -0700 Although the shape of this spoon is based on a traditional breton style, the wax-inlay decoration is entirely original.
This would make a small serving spoon or a generous-sized eating spoon

]]> 0 0ffd19d5a429477942e5a2ecc91c813b https://wemake.co/activity/p/2142/ Sun, 22 Sep 2024 10:50:18 -0700 This spoon is inspired by the highly decorated spoons made in the far west of Brittany between 1700 and 1900. The shape is similar to two spoons in Morlaix museum and the national museum (MuCEM) in Marseilles.
It is decorated with an inlay of coloured sealing wax, which is melted into the chip-carved design. Spoons with coloured decoration… Read more

]]> 0 e4056d55071909653d201b75aa4f7291 https://wemake.co/activity/p/2141/ Sun, 22 Sep 2024 10:39:23 -0700 This shape of this spoon is taken from a pair of old Breton spoons in Rennes museum. They were made around 1850 in the south of Brittany, near the town of Auray.
My spoon is carved from box and uses a traditional style of chip-carved decoration

]]> 0 f7e6e060cf607ec8f0892a6e2b84176a https://wemake.co/activity/p/2107/ Wed, 04 Sep 2024 17:37:25 -0700 Hand carved serving spoon from some nicely spalted crabapple wood.

]]> 2 0c9ec37916686a79664c9cd16904d002 https://wemake.co/activity/p/2102/ Fri, 30 Aug 2024 17:24:43 -0700 Cooking spoons hand carved from yellow birch and crabapple.

]]> 2 6df1630f91403825fe67c852aed53821 https://wemake.co/activity/p/2091/ Tue, 20 Aug 2024 10:53:39 -0700 Creating a useful object by hand using a natural material has at the heart of making a sense of discovery. This takes place within one’s own hands, while bringing about a shape from the rough material. At the end when you contemplate what has been created most of the times there is a wide smile coming up.

]]> 1 177934de855c5fdee61696acd6668d0b https://wemake.co/activity/p/2058/ Thu, 08 Aug 2024 10:19:21 -0700 Making a new shape in a wood not yet carved. The wonder of the moment. A scoop that whispers joy all across the grain.

]]> 4 c7ee5b2236c3af5b9b3fef72fb008f30 https://wemake.co/activity/p/2035/ Wed, 24 Jul 2024 19:01:57 -0700 Some spoons just feel so good in the hand. This one fits just right. It is carved from a branch that was salvaged from a storm damaged maple from the front yard. The wood had been sitting out in all the rain this summer and became lightly spalted as a result.

]]> 2 c23b100828f18ff063e6fc90b10c61b3 https://wemake.co/activity/p/1507/ Sat, 20 Jul 2024 20:35:22 -0700 0 73d3228ea5ef52f3b46a4dc32cb46cce https://wemake.co/activity/p/1482/ Thu, 18 Jul 2024 14:49:23 -0700 Sometimes wood whispers. To your hands in a request for additonal care. So not too much is taken away. So the best is not lost.

]]> 2 9e3dc1f7fa06662d81b6026eb0a8f09b https://wemake.co/activity/p/1452/ Tue, 09 Jul 2024 17:43:40 -0700 A finished a small batch of sourdough starter stirrers. Batch work for carving is great until you get to that one with grain that just won’t cooperate and you get to compare it to all the ones that just went really smoothly. Joking aside, it helps to dial in the best sequence of cuts to get your desired result and develop muscle memory for a form.

]]> 1 093728c7aa773d54669f6471c28c2dd3 https://wemake.co/activity/p/1413/ Sat, 08 Jun 2024 17:33:50 -0700 It doesn’t need to be perfect, in whatever way that can be expressed. Making is an exercise in meaning. In truth. From the hands that hold the tools and intentionally make cuts and curls to the shape that is drawn out of a raw piece of wood. It’s play and it’s learning.

]]> 2 e6e59205be8e0d297d47a8d92ea90e0e https://wemake.co/activity/p/1412/ Sat, 08 Jun 2024 17:28:24 -0700 Made of cherry, slightly curved (the wood asked for so I had to follow …), ideal for mazagran, mug, cocktail glass …

]]> 0 811718acce29e655936367ade64c590e https://wemake.co/activity/p/1399/ Wed, 05 Jun 2024 13:20:53 -0700 After getting tired of stirring sourdough starter with a spoon that is too short for the jar , I decided to make a skinny spurtle to do the job right. I added a loop to hang the tool from and add some contrast to thev wood. Which do you prefer…a natural cordage or leather loop?

]]> 0 4341e764e1326baa80b235329c7dc63d https://wemake.co/activity/p/1379/ Wed, 29 May 2024 03:13:39 -0700 Some simple hand carved eating spoons from black cherry wood.

]]> 0 091683b6948de35178ebb4e5a4a7ccec https://wemake.co/activity/p/1372/ Tue, 28 May 2024 16:01:13 -0700 Hand carved cherry eating spoon. I had fun with the neck transition on this spoon.

]]> 0 7ce2332e0bc66a42344176bf68a3673b https://wemake.co/activity/p/1365/ Sun, 26 May 2024 19:29:53 -0700 Recent Spoons carved from a mixture of different woods. Beech, Spalted Beech and Damson

]]> 1 a98981cc5ae07aa4bef4be35bbc4c1ba https://wemake.co/activity/p/1326/ Wed, 15 May 2024 03:16:37 -0700 Cherry eating spoon with some simple chip carving.

]]> 0 2972e5fd21ad86a1de7fe6b9327758ac https://wemake.co/activity/p/1325/ Wed, 15 May 2024 02:43:12 -0700 Patterned after spoons found among the wreckage of the 17 century Vasa ship that sunk just outside of the port.

]]> 0 238ad7617c5cac6f476d9cc6ba94c6f0 https://wemake.co/activity/p/1323/ Wed, 15 May 2024 02:26:03 -0700 Mini kuksa in cherry, embellished with some kolrosing on the handle.

]]> 0 e05ee4d410d193f10f3ac23a1ad5fe82 https://wemake.co/activity/p/1322/ Wed, 15 May 2024 02:18:58 -0700 Kayak spoons! Super slim and light to slide right into your backpack on your next adventure.

]]> 0 ad7f16334a9c77adffe440e0b76eb60e https://wemake.co/activity/p/1258/ Wed, 08 May 2024 14:35:37 -0700 Playing around with texture on this cherry spatula. I kept the handle plain to give the eye a rest from the busyness of the working end.

]]> 0 2fb0c2dd83562f38abbb4b8af591b9cb https://wemake.co/activity/p/1257/ Wed, 08 May 2024 14:23:54 -0700 My first attempt at a wooden fork, yellow birch.

]]> 2 abd31bd3f1fb6850c30ac48a04308eec https://wemake.co/activity/p/1213/ Thu, 02 May 2024 16:59:13 -0700 Made of hazel with the bark

]]> 1 73ad67343089293681d8fb3a22ce704d https://wemake.co/activity/p/1211/ Thu, 02 May 2024 16:39:02 -0700 This one was made of elm, half sapwood/half heartwood to get a nice bicolor design

]]> 0 529d7e7c98fc31a55c6d6353c7b25b54 https://wemake.co/activity/p/1210/ Thu, 02 May 2024 16:26:56 -0700 Made of oak. The piece of wood is worked to get different lines from the growth rings in the handle and in the blade

]]> 0 9fe31d8a16a0719b59ead6f91d0b282a https://wemake.co/activity/p/1161/ Fri, 26 Apr 2024 23:34:33 -0700 Cherry soup spoons carved by hand.

]]> 1 5a9cba018e30978a7d38bcf4464e7e87 https://wemake.co/activity/p/1160/ Fri, 26 Apr 2024 13:40:04 -0700 Hand carved ladle from yellow birch.

]]> 0 a0e6ec511f74d612cd612bd1b68d9fa2 https://wemake.co/activity/p/1148/ Wed, 24 Apr 2024 20:52:03 -0700 0 490cf650c0f24288fa42423163f76a22 https://wemake.co/activity/p/1147/ Wed, 24 Apr 2024 20:49:15 -0700 The fruits of last evening’s labor…three spreaders and a loaf of sourdough.

]]> 1 2363169e5cdb6e7b5a1258f4d5b33bb9 https://wemake.co/activity/p/1071/ Sat, 20 Apr 2024 06:46:52 -0700 Making a wooden spoon by hand with only hand tools is a way of (re)connecting. There is a return to natural materials and to an ancestral beauty that still lives on. It is made to last, to share and to hold stories that will hopefully outlive us.

]]> 0 a82295acaa9038094a7153ba659b46b7 https://wemake.co/activity/p/1068/ Thu, 18 Apr 2024 20:22:27 -0700 When carving spoons, it’s possible to explore different types and sizes, and to decorate with different kinds of arty details. These variations make every spoon unique.

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