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In this video, I make a wooden spoon, out of resin and basswood. I used both hand tools and power tools to make it.
I begun with a flat and square piece of stock on which I designed my spoon on all faces.
I then used a big bent carving gouge to start hollowing my spoon. I used a small cardboard template to check how deep I was. At some point I used a smaller gouge to reach a few tighter spots. Once I was 90% done I stoped hollowing.
Next I cut a piece off on my bandsaw. I wanted to fill this area with resin. I glued the pieces back together with hot glue. I also added tape to make sure my resin could not escape.
I mixed some resin with green dye and I degassed it in my vacuum chamber.
I then poured the resin into the hole and let it cure for a few days.
Next I cut my spoon on the bandsaw. Once I did the cuts on one axis, I glued the pieces back together with hot glue and did the cuts on the other axis.
With my spoon’s basic shape done, I used the spokeshave to finish shaping. When you get bad cuts with the spokeshave you should turn it around and cut with the grain of the wood.
Once I was done with the spoke shave I switched to a flat and a round file to even up all surfaces.
I also used a spoon carving knife and a regular carving knife to fine tune the shape of my spoon.
Finally I started sanding with 100grit. To sand the cavity of my spoon I used a home made spherical sanding bit for my lathe. I then moved on to 220 and 320grit. I started wet sanding with mineral oil at 400grit until I reached one thousand grit. I polished the resin part with my micro mesh pads which go from 1.500 to 12.000 grit.
Finally I buffed with my buffing wheels.
My spoon came out great. But that was it, see you soon with a new project video!
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