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YouTube on Spoon Making at the Bench - Real Woodworking

The recent blog I did on making spoons at the bench hybridising woodcraft with bench-craft is now watchable on YouTube. I enjoyed doing this video and the previous one on making spoons with the axe and knife. I still used an axe for some of the work but showed a

Shaping and sharpening round scrapers

Shaping and sharpening round scrapers

I especially like the set of scrapers Lee Valley sells made by Veritas. It's a set of four in two sizes and four thicknesses. A set like this takes care of all of your scraper or should I say scraping needs. But I especially like the one I

Shaping your axes for carving

Shaping your axes for carving

Shaping axes and scrapers for spoon making and carving Shaping an axe to carve with is necessary because they really don't come fit for purpose usually. Today we do the axe. Later the scraper. Here you see two axe types. One is large the other small. The one

YouTube video- Paul Sellers on Woodland Spoons with Axe and Knife

YouTube video- Paul Sellers on Woodland Spoons with Axe and Knife

I really had a fun few days making more films for YouTube followers who want to see and hear technique. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjK2yKZEPZQ I cannot emphasise the wellbeing I get from spending time in the woods and actually working there when I can. Few crafts give

Woodland spoon carving

Woodland spoon carving

Shop looks great, great, great. Pix tomorrow or soon. Here's one. Phil and I spent a few hours in the woods just below the Castle near the river and yes, that's a Sequoiadendron giganteum (giant sequoia, giant redwood, Sierra redwood, Sierran redwood, or Wellingtonia). There are

Workshop revamp is completed

Workshop revamp is completed

Today we put stuff away at last. Actually, we’ve been doing that for a couple of days now, but then we decided to repaint the walls and floors and benches. Before we knew what we were doing we had doubled our workload but needed to complete in the same

Shaping and rounding the spoon

Shaping and rounding the spoon

Shaping in the round There’s a sense of apprehension sometimes about shaping the wood and especially when you carved a perfect bowl. This is what we call the risk of work. In general, machines are designed to substitute for workers developing skill. Skilled workers in the past ended up