I spent time with the talented Richard Roberts at the beautiful ‘Bedfords Park Walled Garden’ location in London / Essex (UK)
Download Richards Free Spoon Template – https://www.r2wood.co.uk/spoon-template
List of tools Richard used in this video – https://www.r2wood.co.uk/carving-tools
Richards Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/r2_wood/
Richards Online Store – https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/R2HandcarvedWood
Richards regular Spoon Carving & Green Woodworking meet up in Essex / London – https://www.r2wood.co.uk/aptgw-essex
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The other videos I filmed with Richard Roberts:
= How to carve a spoon – **THIS VIDEO YOU ARE WATCHING**
= How To Carve A Butter Spreader – (COMING SOON)
= How To Carve A Salt Bowl – (COMING SOON)
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Below is a timestamp of all the sections in this video:
(Click on the time on the left to go straight to that section)
00:00:00 – Start
00:00:07 – Introduction
00:03:59 – Filming location
00:05:30 – Woodworking meet up
00:07:07 – Richards journey
00:08:58 – Spoon selection
00:12:46 – Bowls, kuksa, etc
00:14:55 – Spoon he’ll be carving
00:16:28 – Wood selection
00:17:25 – Saw & split wood
00:19:45 – Axing billet
00:28:08 – Axing crank
00:33:20 – Draw spoon template
00:35:12 – Axing spoon blank
00:49:25 – Initial straight knife work
01:05:26 – Initial hollowing bowl
01:15:39 – Carving handle
01:24:27 – Carving neck transition
01:27:14 – Carving bowl facets
01:29:30 – Refine bowl bottom
01:32:54 – Carving flute on handle
01:37:08 – Refining cuts
01:39:16 – Drying technique
01:41:30 – Oiling technique
01:46:18 – Conclusion
01:53:06 – Outro
As always I appreciate you watching
Take care
Peace
Zed
#SpoonCarving #GreenWoodworking #Woodworking
24 Comments
Click here to Download Richards Spoon Template – https://www.r2wood.co.uk/spoon-template
Yay you‘re back😀
Spooning with Richard!😉
You've been missed.✌🏽
Thank you very much for this spoon video! My perfect evening, wisky, Zed and spoon video. You are precious Zed!
Lovely..lol Thanks so much Zed, that was a fun day. Hope this helps or inspires folks out out there, like Zed's earlier videos did for me. Full Circle!
Oooh goody. Just bought a whittling kit
wow! your rough spoons look better than my finished spoons
Unfortunate about the mansion.
Lovely collection of hand carved spoons and such, anyone of which I would love to own (or carve lol).
I noticed there seems to be somewhat of a fascination with using beechwood for carving spoons. Is that due to a large population of beechwood trees over there, or because it is relatively soft wood, easy to carve? I apologize for my ignorance. I appreciate your explicit teaching. It's really good.
Yet another great video, Zed. Thanks a lot for the effort, filming Richard's spoons. I have been a long time follower of him.
I just wanted you to know that both of my sons (5 & 8) still refer to you as “uncle Zed” every time we watch your videos! I hope you are well my friend.
Thanks to both of you for your time and talents. As always Zed you are my favorite YouTube creator.
Another in an important workshop series for spoonies. I get at least one new adaptation per episode. In this one, learned there’s more than a cosmetic reason to avoid and eliminate pith section. That wisdom WILL accentuate every spoon I make from now on. A new way to contain effects of drying!!
MrZ, whens the next camp out?
Just incase anyone is interested: after we shot the video I remembered the wood I was using was Horse Chestnut, the good ole Conker Tree. It came from a huge wind fallen limb just outside the Garden's walls.
Maybe I missed the type of wood he was using but I hope it wasn't Tree of Heaven.
What are the spoons, bowls and the Mora painted with?
Yessss new zed outdoors!
Where’s the link to the Swedish linseed oil?
Haven’t seen your videos for a while and I am so happy to see new carving videos. Alpha from kona Hawaii.
Imagine if Zed reach out with Robin Wood, to film the process of making a set of nested bowls 😍😍🤯
Great video
Nice to see your videos again.
Awesome to see the both of you finally sitting down and doing this video – I know it's been talked about for quite some time and it was every bit as good as I thought it would be !! Richard is such a talented maker and constantly exploring design, technique and finish. I have a good handful of his spoons and can attest that as well as being beautifully functional they are works of art to behold.
When will the next two videos be up ?