The key to making a wooden spoon is simplicity. A hostess gift for the kitchen is a relatively easy project requiring few tools and techniques. It will take a little skill and an approximate design, according to which the kitchen utensil will be made.
Basic tools and blanks
To roughly understand how to make a wooden spoon, see the sketches of the masters, videos on the topic. For small utensils you will need:
- A piece of wood, preferably a walnut. Not soft, young. As a last resort, you can take hardwood if you are a skilled craftsman.
- Skobel.
- Chisel.
- Sandpaper of different grits.
- File for woodworking.
- Stechel fine, steel cutter for decorative carving.
- Clamp for fixing the timber.
- Rag.
- Edible oil, not base oil.
- Rasp.
Pencil drawspoon shape on a piece of wood, and then cut it with a band saw. In its absence, you can get by with a rasp.
Illustration of shape and size
Too thin a piece of wood will not allow you to make a deep spoon. Rather, it is suitable for kneading salads, cooking cereals, soups. Deep ladles for first courses have always been distinguished by their bulge and large shape.
Mark with a pencil the borders of the spoon and the place where the indentation will be. Put on gloves and get ready for nicks and roughness - splinters are guaranteed. The rasp has sharp corners and the blade itself, be careful. The technique for making wooden spoons is simple:
- Use a cutting knife to remove excess parts from the wooden block.
- Fix the bar with a clamp.
- We form a recess with a chisel or cranberry.
- The cutting is made in the direction of the fibers.
- Leave an allowance for trimming and sanding.
If you do not know how to make a wooden spoon of the correct depth, draw a cut line on the side of the cut with a pencil by sticking a button. When you reach it from the inside, take it out.
Working with an array: cutting and grinding
After the formation of the recess, you need to remove the unnecessary parts of the bar. We form a slice and give the spoon a shape:
- The extra array horizontally and vertically is removed with a jigsaw.
- First, the side contour is cut, then the lower horizontal one.
Use a jigsaw or bandsaw. You can do everything with a chisel or a simple hacksaw, butwill take more time.
Handle Shaping and Finishing
When the workpiece is completed, the approximate size and shape are reached, proceed to the next step. First you need to fix the spoon to give it a perfectly round shape. For this, a Bogorodsk knife is used, but you can also make a tool for making wooden spoons yourself.
- A wide chisel is used for grinding and at the same time cutting off excess small parts.
- Knife needs to work through the handle so that it is not too thin and fragile.
Further, all irregularities are removed with a spoon cutter, the edges are aligned. With the help of grinding, go over the product several times, each time reducing the graininess of the material.
Fluff removal for kitchen use
Knowing how to make a wooden spoon, now the task is to remove the fluff from its surface. If a spoon is used in the process of cooking, then as a result of water ingress, a small pile can move away, enter the food and the body through it. Therefore, you need to do the following:
- Dip the spoon in cold water for a few hours.
- Dry it and sand it with sandpaper.
- Repeat the procedure several times until the fibers stop reappearing.
This is important! The abrasive must be fine-grained so that the spoon retains its shape, but becomes smooth without the formation of new pile.
Oil treatment: give the spoon a beautiful appearanceview
The technology of making wooden spoons is not limited to stripping. After all the work on removing the pile, it is necessary to process the product with special means so that it can be used in the cooking process.
- Use edible oils to form a smooth surface.
- Base oils can only be used if the spoon will serve as a decoration in the house.
- Linseed oil is the only product that can retain moisture from the outside. Suitable for processing food kitchen utensils.
Impregnation is environmentally friendly. It protects the wood from moisture, has an antibacterial property, emphasizes the structure of the wood without filling the decorative cut with layers of emulsions. The only negative is its constant updating. Since the oil evaporates periodically, it is necessary to carry out processing every 2-3 months.
Industrial wood additives and oils
Focusing on the pattern of how to make a wooden spoon, many masters have difficulty only in choosing a finishing material. They are essential for handling cutting boards, handles, spoons and other utensils in the solid wood kitchen.
- Wood has a higher liquid absorption rate than paper, so it is customary to use mineral oils.
- Wooden utensils and countertops are treated with water-repellent materials.
- They do not form a film, the pores are open, the wood continues to "breathe".
Mineralcomponents do not affect the taste of the product, do not spoil its structure, do not cause an unpleasant odor. In industry, vaseline oil is used, which does not need to be updated over time. It is also more popular due to the lack of rancid taste.
Any DIY wooden spoon making is approaching the logical final stage - nut butter is also used at home.
The process of treating products with oils is an important component of safe use
Before applying the oil, prepare the spoon:
- Clean and sand, dry well.
- A clean rag or brush is soaked in oil.
- The product is smeared with an abundant amount of finishing material from all sides.
- Leave in a dark place for complete soaking for 25 minutes.
Excess must be removed with a dry swab in the direction of the fibers. The impregnation procedure is repeated several times until the last layer dries in a day. Therefore, in total, each subsequent layer of oil will dry 30-40 minutes longer than the previous one. It will be possible to apply 12-15 layers per day due to the low polymerization rate of the components.
Safety of other finishing materials
In large industry, instead of oils, oily secondary products are used, which last longer. They cost more, but it's worth the cost.
- Wooden finishing materials need a strong "framework" that will not wear off and enter the body with food.
- There are compositions based on oils, polyurethane, nitrocellulose varnish, shellac, linseed drying oil.
They are absolutely harmless if completely dry. The formed film does not yet indicate the complete drying of the product, since inside the fibers the oils and their other components may remain wet. This is important to know so as not to endanger people.
To keep the attractive appearance of the spoon for a long time of use, you need to clean it in warm water from food. Use only soap-based products, environmentally friendly, without chemicals and abrasives. Do not allow spoons to stay in water for a long time. If the spoon is damaged (cracks, breaks, pile), it is re-grinded and polished, after which several layers of oil are applied again. So you can use the accessory in the kitchen for a long time.
How to make a wooden spoon with your own hands: drawings for decorating simple products
"Road spoon to dinner", and in our case - to the decoration. Not only boards and plates, cups and coasters can serve as decoration in the interior of the kitchen. If the facades allow you to preserve the design, then why not take carvings on such small decor items as spoons as a guide. This is a great idea, especially if you already know how to make your own wooden spoon.
To give originality and beauty, the workpiece is used in various shapespatterns:
- Geometric curly carving.
- Picture burning.
- Khokhloma painting in Russian style.
The steps below show how to make a wooden spoon at home and how to decorate it.
In modern craft it is impossible to do without a burning machine, but now they use printers that beautifully imitate the drawing. By transferring an image from a computer, you can set any setting for the machine so that it does the "manual work" for a person. Thus, each spoon can be painted in literally seconds with a laser jet.
Artistic spoons and decorating household tools
Carving gives the tree great elegance, since it can only be done by hand. Thanks to calculations, carpenters have long come up with "sets" of such decors that will look good on thin and thick spoons, with large and small indentations, square or round:
- Star - three-dimensional image on the handle.
- Pigtail or weaving - mainly depicted on the "trunk" of a spoon.
- Geometric chain - several recessed lines placed perpendicular to each other. They form convex diamonds.
You can also find many patterns that will suit a particular spoon shape. You can easily learn how to make a wooden spoon, fork or spatula yourself. Accessibility makes contemporary art easy to learn and master, even for women. Right now inIn some cities of Russia, schoolchildren learn the techniques of decorating spoons and boards with carvings. Children in kindergartens draw on wooden objects, learn to combine colors, work with natural materials.
But burning becomes a separate art direction. With its help, the master can not only add zest to a simple piece of wood, but also saturate it with "history". On a cutting board, indentations of spoons, you can easily depict a still life, landscape and even a portrait. It all depends on the dexterity and skill of the master, his seniority and work experience.
Classic and original spoons differ not only in drawing, but also in the volume of work. For example, the drawing above shows a way to create an original spoon that will serve as a decorative element. They tend to have oddly shaped handles that would be awkward to hold if you needed to cook dinner or stir food. Household tools are more malleable and reliable in cooking, so no grace is provided for them, but the choice is up to the master.
