The key to successful woodworking is to use sharp tools. Blades may require a little sharpening, known as “honing,” when making a spoon. Keeping a whetstone or wheel nearby is helpful, but running the ...

Almost any wood will work fine for whittling. If you’re anxious to get started and are curious about whittling techniques, just find a stick or piece of wood and start slicing away. If you want to ...

If you can make kindling, you can carve a spoon. And mastering spoon carving will not only help you make bowls, ladles, and shovels (and musical instruments — big ladles covered with skins and strings ...

Barnaby Carder, better known as Barn the Spoon, has forged a living hand-carving and selling unique wooden spoons from his workshop in Stepney. This is his story… ‘I made my first wooden spoon when I ...

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Barnaby Carder - who calls himself Barn the Spoon - spends his days sitting in a London shopfront, painstakingly whittling wooden spoons. After being apprenticed to a wooden furniture maker, he spent ...

Does a man whittle in the woods? He does. In this case, the woods are near Garforth, Yorkshire, and the man is a coppice craftsman by the name of Dan Watson. Snuggled in the corner of a farm, ...