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Spoon making is not particularly hard, but it does take a long time to whittle down the wood for the handle and burn out the hole for the spoon bowl. I decided today that I would dedicate an hour to spoon making so that I could see what could be done in that timeframe and how long this process would probably take overall.
While I've done some primitive carving projects before, I've never had to take bulk off with a knife before and I knew that it would probably be a monotonous project so best to break it up over time as I couldn't dedicate a full day to it.
I started by going through a wood pile and finding a piece of wood that could work. I was looking for something that had some natural lines inclined towards a spoon shape to make it easier. Eventually I found a piece of tree root that I thought would work nicely for this as it already had an indentation where a node was.
I then cut through it on both sides with my saw to the approximate length required and began shaping it with my knife. My knife held up well and before long, I had removed quite a lot of material from the rough starting point. I've still got a lot of wood to remove from the blank and to burn and carve the spoon bowl into place.
After an hour I was happy with my progress. I outlined the shape of the spoon on the stick in the first image so you can see what still needs to be done - it's still quite a lot. Someone who is better at carving with a knife would probably have been able to do a lot more than I did, but I'm really just doing this for practice so that I've at least done it once before if I ever needed to do it in a survival situation. I will do a follow up post on it once it's completed, but this gives an indication of what you can do in an hour towards making a survival spoon out in the wild with only rudimentary tools.
Have you made a spoon by hand before? What was your experience? Let me know in the comments.