How to make a wooden spoon?

Making wooden spoons is a process that cannot be called boring, unnecessary, outdated. In fact, any work with natural material, which results in a utilitarian or decorative thing, brings its performer pleasure from the creation process itself. To make a wooden spoon on a lathe, process or paint an existing workpiece, even just varnish (restore) the old one - all this is an interesting process even for a beginner.

The beginning craftsman is not concerned about the scale of production of wooden utensils, but the material that is best suited for this purpose. So that the process was not initially a failure, you will need blanks from solid, but not chipped wood - aspen, maple, ash, cherry, birch, walnut. If you have not tried working with wood before, take linden. This is soft and light wood, malleable even in the most skillful hands. In addition, linden does not emit tannins, products from it are not inclined to warp.

What definitely shouldn't be processed is pine. Conifers, in principle, are not suitable for the manufacture of dishes: this is due to strong resinousness and a pungent smell. And if you can remove the smell of paint from a spoon, then the coniferous smell is stable. As blanks for a food or decorative spoon, use a tablet. You can also split the ridge deck into small poles.

To cut a spoon, you will need more than one tool. Ideally, you should have:

• knife - the best option would be Bogorodsky, it has a convenient narrow nose and double-sided sharpening;
• spoon cutter - this is a steep-bending chisel, which is needed for scraping wood in the recesses; instead of a spoon cutter, you can take a wide klukarzu;
• straight chisel - it is used for smoothly cutting solid wood from the workpiece;
• clamp - a tool for fixing;
• file - roughing;
• shtihel - a thin steel cutter, thanks to which it is possible to make threads on the handle.

Using the template, transfer the drawing of two types (top and side) to the wooden blank. Watch the orientation of wood fibers - it should be longitudinal. Fix the workpiece with a clamp, begin to roughly shape the bowl. Further step-by-step actions are as follows.

1. Use a spoon cutter to select the wood in the direction of the fibers. Having deepened the bowl, do not forget that you should leave an allowance in thickness for subsequent grinding and trimming.
2. After the formation of the recess, proceed to cut the excess array in the vertical and horizontal plane, focusing on the upper and lateral contour. For this purpose, a jigsaw or a band saw is used, but the work can be done with a chisel or hacksaw.
3. Next, take the Bogorodsky knife, with the help of which the convex part of the spoon is cut off. Thanks to the wide chisel, the bowl can be shaped perfectly. The shape of the handle is worked out with a knife and a chisel.
4. With the help of a spoon cutter, finishing trimming is performed, aligning its edges.
5. Grinding, as the final stage, is carried out in 2-3 approaches (do not forget to lower the grain size of the abrasive every time).

The process begins the same way - drawing two spoon profiles according to the template. Then sawing is carried out on a band saw, that is, a rough preparation of a spoon. On the tape machine, you can immediately cut the cloves for the handle, they are utilitarian - they can be fixed to the edge of the dishes.

After that, the rough work ends, the thin begins. Now a clerical knife is taken and with its help the product takes on smooth shapes. The boring machine with rasp cutters helps to round bends and edges. Part of the surface is easily smoothed on a grinding machine (if you, of course, know how to work with it).

To sample the bowl, you still need a regular chisel or, as an option, a mallet. They first cut down a rough contour, then it is adjusted with small semicircular chisels. The bottom is leveled with rasp burrs.

Grinding left: first, coarse sandpaper is used, then fine sandpaper. Processing the spoon with a protective compound completes the process. Well and of course decoration - a spoon can be gracefully painted, decorated with polymer clay decor, make a family charm out of it, etc.

Antique ways to give water-repellent properties to wood - impregnation with wax or oil. Try to choose natural components for this purpose without various chemical additives. And even more so, you do not need varnish, if you use a spoon as a dish. What impregnations can be taken:

• tung oil - slowly drying oil with deep wood impregnation, close to varnish in protective properties;
• linseed oil - dries slowly, affordable and relatively cheap;
• mineral paraffin oil - non-drying, washed off the surface quickly, but quickly and processed again;
• beeswax or carnauba wax - Not the best option, but acceptable.

The most common option for decorating a spoon is painting. Even young children in the garden are taught how to colorize a paper template for a spoon, or they can cut a paper blank to simulate carving. If the spoon is purely decorative, and does not threaten contact with moisture, you can use tempera or colored gouache for painting. Such paints are easy to use, they do not require preliminary priming of the surface.

But if you intend to organize the painting of a spoon with oil paints, a primer is necessary: ​​this is done in 2-3 steps. The primer is easy to do yourself: one part of gelatin (you can take dry carpentry glue instead), 5 parts of tooth powder. A teaspoon of the composition in a glass of water - and the primer is ready.

The painting is done with small brushes, no. No higher than 6, the best option is squirrel. Drawing should not be impromptu if you are not a master. Draw a sketch in advance, transfer it to a spoon. Apply paint in one go! Patterns can be simple, or you can do a more elegant delicate work. But for this, the sketch in color must first be done on paper: the hand will be trained, and already on the spoon itself, the first time you can easily apply a complex pattern.

Make a lampshade out of a comfortable material. This can be a plastic or metal blank, which is decorated with braid or lace. In the form of a lampshade, it will be convenient for suspension. Painted spoons will hang on the perimeter of the lampshade on beautiful strings or fishing line with stringed beads. And the company they can make painted wooden forks.

Decorate spoons and forks with one color - for example, red. For design, use a cute spot painting. Coat the product with varnish and, waiting for it to dry, fix it on the fishing line / braid. To fix in spoons and forks, holes must be made in the handle.

You will get a beautiful, unusual composition. Hang the lampshade by twine or durable yarn (whatever, if only it would look aesthetically and stylistically convincing). Such a composition-amulet can hang anywhere: above the dining table, in the hallway, working area of ​​the kitchen.

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