This is a friend Sharif who has been on several courses with me over the last few years. He has become a very good green wood worker and he clearly has a friend who is good at the filming and editing. I love the noddy head spoon dance with pounding beat. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33sdZvX3TqI] You can see more of Sharif’s work on…
My mate Barn Carder carves spoons. The BBC just made a lovely little video of his work and his London spoon shop. You’ll have to visit the BBC site to see it, I hope it works outside the UK too here is the link Barnaby Carder – who calls himself Barn the Spoon – spends his days sitting in a…
The last three days I have been teaching a bowl carving course, these are the bowls we made Here is the early stage Steve adzing out the hollow everyone made two bowls, the first is a standard design just to get to grips with the tools and techniques. Once that is done we start again with a larger piece of…
Sorry these are all sold now. I am keeping an email list of folk that want them, no commitment and no guarantee when they will be here but I’ll send you an email as soon as the next ones are in stock. I have been forging my own hook tools and spoon knives for 20 years but never made them…
I am very proud of my daughter Jojo who has been doing some really great spoons recently. Jojo learnt to use a knife at a very young age, this is Swedish master carver Wille Sundqvist teaching her and Ollie some carving techniques when they were 6 and 9 years old. Fast forward 10 years and here she is in typical…
Do Americans do shrove tuesday? I remember years ago going to Mardi Gras at New Orleans but do you eat special stuff to eat up the eggs, milk and fat that you are going to give up for lent? or like us eat the goodies and then not give up? Anyway we do pancake day and this one is special…
When I started teaching wooden spoon carving I would allow people to “go free with the wood” just teaching them basic technique and letting their imaginations run wild. They made crap spoons but were happy. After a while I decided for my foundation beginners course I had to restrict the options and teach in a much more methodical way in…
I have posted before about the best axe and straight knife for carving and the third tool that is needed is the spoon knife or hook knife. Opinions vary enormously as to which is the best spoon carving knife, if you search the web you will find lots of folk vehemently arguing that this or that knife is the best,…
I have posted links to these individually before but thought it would be good to post them all in one place and some may be new to some folk. The best spooncarver I have ever seen was Ion Constantin a Romanian Gypsy who I visited with Stuart King in 1998. This is the short film, I have a bunch of…
I have met and spent time with Wille Sundqvist several times and been inspired by his book Swedish Carving Technique, both the technical advice and the life philosophy, I had not met his son Jögge until this last week when he came to SPOONFEST taught 2 short classes in knife carving grasps for us and gave an inspirational lecture. His…
