Here's the Scoop - Start Carving a Future

Carve by hand those things you care the most about

It's not rocket science starting to carve, a little imagination, a few hand tools, but it can change the course of someone's life when you spend a few afternoon hours a day with your children in the workshop when normal school was done. Our sons are all grown now but all of them learned to become woodworkers and made all kinds of things before they were 18. As a furniture maker I would have been remiss had they not had the same skills as me as they all came into the workshop from anywhere between 3-5 years old and did that until they were young men. While they were fashioning anything from a coracle to wooden spoons and spatulas, mallets and workbenches they sold to people who came by our workshop, I was fashioning their character and developing that bond that lasts a lifetime.  Most of this started quite young and I was about my own work but kept a watchful eye on them as they worked.

Here is another video for all of you who asked us how to make a scoop. You will see how little effort it takes to do it and how little time. Hone your skills on this and you will be using the same skills it takes to fashion a guitar neck or the neck of a cello or violin. Hope you enjoy it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9ezgAzdIZ0&list=UUc3EpWncNq5QL0QhwUNQb7w