Bobby Linton
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I enjoy whittling. I'm enjoying the home time I have to do it. As long as there are trees in the yard I have something to do! Nocked out a soup spoon this morning. I can sit and make chips all day. Anybody else whillting? 
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Whittled a simple spoon.
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I`m curing a chunk of red maple to char and scrape, with some whittling, to make a Kuksa.
Bobby Linton
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I had to google Kuksa, looks cool. Post a pic when your done! I would like to see it.
Looks good! I love wooden utensils. I have a couple that my grandpa whittled out of applewood that I still use on a regular basis.
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I like the old wooden dough bowls, the long ones. Gil
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Never thought about that as a pass time but it's a real good idea. Nice spoon too!
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I've been thinking of it a lot lately. Somebody keeps leaving my wooden utensils in the prewash and the dogs have turned them into their sticks
Yellow poplar was the preferred dough bowl wood around here. My sister has an old one. She treasures it.
Nice,,,,
turkeykirk
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Looks great!
Bobby Linton
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I'm not allowed to use wooden spoons as weapons anymore. When the wife and I first got married, i used to chase her around the house with the "naughty spoon". She didn't enjoy that as much as I did and hid all the spoons.I have a big stash of wooden and bamboo utensils. I'd beat somebody with them if I found one of them in the dishwasher.
Bobby Linton
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The Swiss may be socialists but they make fine carving tools. I use Pfiel and Mora knives. Pfiel is excellent, but mora is good enough at half the price. I have a full shop of woodworking equipment but I only use hand tools to carve. I used a coping saw and hatchet to blank it out. Then a gouge and basic carving knife to whittle it down.
Really nice work,,,,
Bobby Linton
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Thanks man! It is very calming. I could build a jig and fire out a spoon a minute with my router table, but the sound of the blade in the wood and the slow rhythm soothes me.
I'm a woodworker myself,well was,back issues,,,,was just getting started carving,have many spoons,gouges,knives etc.
Big7
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You done a fine job there ! Did you use a hook knife any ? Makes a spoon or kuksa a lot easier. I remember my paw paw carving axe handles, hoe handles and maddock handles. He used to finish them out by honing them with a piece of old glass or a bone. That whittlings addictive. Might try some wood spirits.
