I get it. Just remove everything that doesn't look like a spoon. Easy!

@riverrowanphoenix1876

4 жыл бұрын

That's the idea... Although I'm not so sure about it being easy 😂😂😂. Definitely rewarding, though, when you get it just right.

@jackstrubbe7608

4 жыл бұрын

I remember in 1952, at age 4, my great grandfather showing me how to look for the core of the wood to make a utensil. This hit a great memory pocket.

@russehart3184

4 жыл бұрын

Exactly. I found a root that resembled a left handed spoon. My sister and aunt, both lefties loved it. But in 03 my x and I took number #4 in the world of carving so that probably don't count. #3 gets a sticker. We got nothing. Other than knowing we kicked ass.

@russehart3184

4 жыл бұрын

I wish I was smart enough to post a picture.

@whitetiger432

3 жыл бұрын

I'm 70 I remember my grandfather carving spoons for my mother... Growing up my father had all of the hand tools for building... Our lawnmower was even the old rotary push type

At times like these when we are all confined , I'm so thankful for channels like this, its so calming and relaxing not to mention good for the soul. It helps to forget whats going on in the world. Great job on the spoons and thanks for sharing. I made an egg/ burger flipper for my wife 15 years ago and she still uses it.

Every time I’m feeling lazy doing projects I watch mr chickadee video and it motivates me amazing work as always

Good video, that's how dad taught us to carve when we were small, using your thumbs for leverage to cut through tough spots. Good memories.

When the boss says work from home because of Coronavirus, and you realize - ‘ I need a spoon’

@pmrich7035

4 жыл бұрын

Upgrade that to the governor putting the state on ‘shelter in place’. - Ohio

@jackstrubbe7608

4 жыл бұрын

I'd be carving that spoon in Ashtabula County under a covered bridge near where I was born if I still lived there.

@thomasarussellsr

4 жыл бұрын

@@pmrich7035 Kentucky, all non-necessary businesses closed. Guess they can't control KZread revenue videos, no physical crowding here.

Very nice old wooden spoon. I just knew there was a spoon hiding in that log.....great kitty-cats......we just lost my good old tabby cat....she was with us 18 years.

@thomasarussellsr

4 жыл бұрын

Don't you mean "Very nice 'new' wooden spoon"?

Man, you've gotta be REAL confident with the grain to want a to use a frow there. I would have been too worried about ruining the whole project to use that short-cut. Well done.

As a spoon carver myself and longtime watcher i liked the video before even watching it :) love all your content !

I would love to give three extra likes for including the cats.

Very aerodynamic. Back in the day, my Mom would have paid a lot of money for a spoon like that to beat my rear with. Well done Sir!

Keep up the good work, my friend. Thank you for putting up these videos right now. It really helps to have a few minutes away from anxiety and worry

Thank you for offering a video that doesn't center around the current situation, you are a very talented person

My son carved a wooden spoon for me years ago. It is a cherished gift, even more so now seeing the work that went into it.

9 people thumbed down a spoon video? They must be forked up.

@MrChickadee

4 жыл бұрын

Bwahahaha!

@TermiteUSA

4 жыл бұрын

The thumb is an inaccurate tool.

@red_dll

4 жыл бұрын

Hope they don't get under the knife.

@marvinostman522

4 жыл бұрын

@@TermiteUSA Hence the phrase when speaking of a clumsy person "they are all thumps."

@marvinostman522

4 жыл бұрын

@@TermiteUSA that was supposed to say thumbs. Must have typing with my thumbs.😕

I'm a spoon maker. You did a fine job!

It's really amazing watching these. I swear it's seems like cutting wood for people like you is the same as cutting bread for normal people.

Watching you carve the spoon brings back a lot of memories of my Dad. He carved many replacement handles for old garden tools, axes hammers, shovels you name it. He made several spindles for an old broken Windsor chair I found. Some of his most interesting tools were pieces of broken coke bottles that he would use to scrape curves down to a fine finish.

Spoon carving is something I've only recently gotten into, I really enjoyed watching your processes. Definitely learned a couple things. I hadn't thought about using a Froe that way for one. I hope you and your wife and kitties are well in these trying times. Thank you so much for your content and channel. It is a welcome respite from the craziness that is going on in the rest of the world.

Great job Josh, we really enjoy watching you carve your spoon. Thanks for sharing with us, the cats are doing great 👍👍. Fred.

I love your videos, you seem to be fairing well during these days. keep it up.

The scenery and the carving give me peace of mind, I keep watching~

I congratulate you Master! I have been following you for a lot of time, i love wood too and have lots of antique hand tools that i been collecting in my life because i love woodworking. Greetings from Argentina!

U R a very talented young man having achieved many things some of us only dream of. U have a home, a place close to what u want. Only one suggestion; children! I’m sure u & the misses have thought about it but my suggestion is to not wait too long. Have them while u can spend valuable time with them, teaching them how to do all the things u are so talented in. Share with them yours & the misses heritage. Share your dreams with them and teach them to be self reliant while they are young. Teach them while u have nearly as much energy as they do. They will put meaning into all you have accomplished and wish to accomplish. It will make u even more accomplished. Just think about it!

Your place is looking real cozy, thanks for sharing.

Peacefully crafting as the world crumbles around us 🖤

@garethbaus5471

4 жыл бұрын

As bad as the situation is what could potentially be millions of deaths still won't be able to destroy our civilization even if no official response is made.

@Wmoore1

4 жыл бұрын

Stop watching the news so much and suddenly the world actually isn't crumbling at all.

@luizgabriel3388

4 жыл бұрын

@@Wmoore1 I understand what do you mean, but information is imperial now. But also be calm and at ease.

@notjamesiha

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry, just a sarcastic overreaction that should've been evident with the black heart.

@Crewsy

4 жыл бұрын

Tim Reid The black heart doesn’t show up so it’s not really “evident”.

Brilliant ending! Well done!

Awesome work! 😃👍🏻🥄👊🏻

A fork is a multi pointed stick - EASY, a knife is a tapered edge stick - EASY, a spoon - well that takes a minute and skill. I've done 50 plus spoons and still learning...... Love the video. I encourage everyone to give this a try and make a spoon.

Love watching you doing your thing: Never a rush just soothing steady progress, again love watching you.

No violence, No cursing, No drama, Thank You 👍🇺🇸

The Wattle and Daube building! Haven't seen this one in a while!

the middle cat was like " eat it yourself! " shaking his/her paw at the food.

Nice looking spoons.

You are very talented. The wood graining was awesome in the spoon.

Watch out , you'll get hooked on spoon carving . I did .

@blessed1sj

4 жыл бұрын

Likewise

@eduardom800

4 жыл бұрын

one way road, yes

@ShimodaLife

4 жыл бұрын

just ordered my "carving for idiots" book on Amazon. I'm in! :-)

@jackstrubbe7608

4 жыл бұрын

Wait til you get to ladles out of an arched branch. They hide in them.

@TheMarshmellowLife

4 жыл бұрын

Why is spoon carving so popular? It's seemed to outshine all the other kinds of in-the-round carving

Thanks for sharing that

Beautiful work! You are like a skilled surgeon with that hewing hatchet.

I always find myself turning up the volume during a Mr. Chickadee video, though there's just the sounds of chopping or shaving and so on. It might be there's a consciousness behind the simple sounds, though.

Makes you think about what's real and what's important

As an spoon carver, I loved your ax work - very precise and effective! If I use green wood, I would roughed out the spoon with the ax and then boil it in salt water for a few hours, then set it somewhere (in like an opened paper bag) for a month to dry. This treatment will actually preserve the would and make it last a lifetime. Kind of like the way the Nordic folks do their Kuksa's. I use bees wax and olive oil (or coconut oil) when finished. Any oil is fine as it is a matter of taste of the maker, but I would never put it on green wood - dry wood soaks the oil in the wood. As an example, I recently visited this 3,000 year old wooden stairs discovered preserved in salt (it was a salt mine) in Hallstatt, Austria

Magnifique .

I few years ago is started carving. Some simple lessons I have learned. Keep your knives and chisels sharp. A dull tool is a dangerous tool. Don't be in a hurry. This is a hard one because you really do want to see how it's going to turn out. Just remember, you can always remove more wood, but you can't put it back on. Going slow seems to get harder the closer you get to the finish. Resist the urge to hurry. There is no worse feeling than wrecking your project just before it's finished. And first, and foremost, try not to cut yourself, but always keep a good supply of band aids around just in case. Have fun.

Awesome

Yay new content! I would never trust myself with an axe like you do here lol. I have enough scars thank you lol

Very calming video, but as always, inspiring me to make something. I'll use one of my Japanese axes, and refer back to your video for methodology. Thanks MC.

@MrChickadee

4 жыл бұрын

The smaller Japanese hatchets should make very good carving axes with the bearded portion permitting high hand placement for detailed strikes.

I'm new to the world of KZread and just recently posted a video on making a spoon carving knife or hook knife. I really enjoy all your videos, thanks for sharing.

Stay safe and healthy my brother.

@Leib33

4 жыл бұрын

Amen!

Wow, hitting this precise with your, whats the word, handaxe? Is pretty impressive

It’s amazing what you can find hiding inside a piece of firewood. 😁 I needed better lathe tools so I’m making some with carbide cutters. First one I used a pry bar for the handle now I’m making handles with that one for the other 2 plus one to replace the plastic pry bar grip. All from pieces of firewood right out of my pile. Black cherry handles look great.

Fine work and another great video but nothing can substitute a nice solid log stump.

Nice demonstration of basic techniques, but wonder if mix of heartwood and regular growth might eventually lead to cracking. Have had some luck with the partial burls formed in regular growth around where branches break off. That way the grain stays continuous around the bowl. Find these when splitting firewood, so no need to make from particular pieces. Just save out the splits when doing a job that already needs doing

@royreynolds108

4 жыл бұрын

Need a species without tanin, taste, or resin.

Nice

Give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Give him a Forest and he’ll eat with manners😉 Looked like fun and you also made it look too easy as usual, thanks for taking us along... Soups on!

Great relaxing video as usual. Got to love cats, there's always one who'll turn their nose up at what you give them :)

@jackstrubbe7608

4 жыл бұрын

My old Mainecoon would go out to the bulkhead and dig for clams with "his" otters if I switched brands or recipes.

Now that is one fussy cat!

Cute kitty's!

Looks like beech wood is pretty easy to carve, probably why the woodcarvers in my family used it a lot.👍 unfortunately beech doesn't grow where I live, so alder should do just fine.

you might think about a holdfast...those gouges are sharp!

Elle est belle cette cabane.

Thank you for the detraction from the real world. I find your videos relaxing.

@louisethompson7706

4 жыл бұрын

Actually...this is the real world.

I'm lying here 65 yo and pretty uncomfortable with a diagnosed case of the Chicom Wuhan Virus. I can't eat much at the moment, but you got me inspired to get my sweel daughter to make me some lentils which I'll eat with a wood spoon. I didn't carve it my self, but it seems like a rustic healthy way to eat them. Thanks much and be healthy.

Watching Dick Proenneke's movies, he would make anything and everything he needed up in Alaska, including the house to live in, but the thing that always sticks in my mind was his wooden spoon

My man.

Please do a video on how go sharpen gouges!

The cat in the middle who takes a sniff, says "I ain't eatin' this sh*t!" and walks away -- that's my cat.

@MrChickadee

4 жыл бұрын

She is a queen, best we dont forget!

Iron Age CNC Machine!

Excellent work with the axe. You made me a bit nervous chiseling towards your inner thigh! Maybe a shave project and/or workbench with hold down dogs for the future?

Yes!! 1st lol Lovely work as always!

@markbrown2296

4 жыл бұрын

Second

Très bon journée bonne appétit

Have you ever tried reversing the concave and convex sides of the spoon to see if it will still hold soup?

@garethbaus5471

4 жыл бұрын

This method can be used with somewhat smaller peices of wood for a given size of spoon than what I think you are suggesting, even a spoon with a bowl cut into the end grain could still hold soup for long enough to eat it or serve it, it just wouldn't be very durable.

Nice work with the patience of Job. What is the wood that is used? You should build and use a wood carver's bench.....much safer and you can shape more delicately with a good draw knife. Best wishes and stay healthy.

@royreynolds108

4 жыл бұрын

He has one.

I haven't seen that workshop in a while. Can we get a tour of the workshops now?

Nice looking spoons. Looks like cat #3 didnt care for what you put down. What was the white creamy substance you rubbed into the spoons?

One of the first videos I saw of yours was you building this workshop behind you and haven't really seen much of it since. Or am I seeing it often but only from the inside?

👍

Nice relaxing video as always. Question: Why not use a draw-knife for the handle? And the bench with which you can clamp the wood by pressing down with a leg (don't know what it's called) .

Charlie!!!

You can grow some bamboo plants in your property too.

Was that lard you put on it?

@Visigoth29527

4 жыл бұрын

I would like to know as well.

@Makete100

4 жыл бұрын

@@Visigoth29527 Me too.

@Aleph-Noll

4 жыл бұрын

maybe a kind of wax to seal it?

@theriddleofsteelforge

4 жыл бұрын

looks like crisco or lard. linseed oil would probably work best.

@riverrowanphoenix1876

4 жыл бұрын

Could have been any number of fats, tbh. Lard, shortening, tallow, coconut oil, etc. Not the worse protecting for a spoon. Though, I wouldn't have put it on a still-green spoon, probably.

0:44 Most rustic mallet ever...

@lajohnson1ly

4 жыл бұрын

One extra tool he didn't need to carry from the shop.

Thanks so much for the beautiful content! Is the hatchet offset? Thanks again.

@MrChickadee

4 жыл бұрын

Nope, just a straight handle double bevel hatchet

Curiosity gets me, whats the string for on your suspenders going into your pocket?

@MrChickadee

4 жыл бұрын

My pocket watch

Thank you for sharing. I've been thinking of making KZread videos of my woodworking as a way to document so that when my 8 year old is grown up she can show her children grandpa making that chair or nightstand sitting in their house. How much time does it add to your work to film it? Any simple tips to share? I am in no way am looking to be a KZread star or make money from it. Just want to document for my child and hopefully grandkids.

Excellent video. I am intrigued by the wedge you used to split the log. What is it mad from, it also looks like it has been charred like Shugiban?

@lajohnson1ly

4 жыл бұрын

It's called a froe, probably steel, and since he's a smith, I'd bet he made it.

Can you tell us more about your carving axe

There is a spoon hiding in every piece of wood.

When you were done, what was the white colored lotion that you spread on the spoon?

Very nice Sir, looked like beech, am I correct?

@mfdriver90

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed, it's beech.

If I were to make wood utensiles from the log, I'd prefer to split out the blank with a froe, hollow with a gouge, and finish with a draw knife on the shaving horse - unless my only resources were axe and knife. But I hate working that hard.

@MrChickadee

4 жыл бұрын

Sure, and if I made many I would, this time just wanted to show some simple hand work outdoors on nice spring day...

@forrestaddy9644

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrChickadee And that you did. It was a fine day for light work taking a break from getting in next fall's firewood. For a couple years, my buddy and I took about seven cords a year from our woodlot. Four for him, three for my mother. It was hard work with chain saw and tractor. Then haul, split, and stack. I shudder to imagine the labor with axe, misery whip, and barrow. You're a better man now than I was then, Josh.

nice, will you be forging a hook knife?

What kind of wood is the best to use in making wooden spoons?

A splitting wedge with a mushroom head, bad idea. My brother got a piece of that through his knee.

@MrChickadee

2 жыл бұрын

its not mushroomed steel, it has a wooden insert which is completely safe.

@johnruckman2320

2 жыл бұрын

@@MrChickadee , never seen anything like that before. Hard to tell with just my phone. Is it manufactured that way or did you make it yourself?

5 trees later I managed to make one lol

😯👍👍👍👌

Do you always carve spoons with such green wood?

I dont understand the wedge you split wood with. It looks like it has a wood handle. Never seen that. Can you tell me how you were so lucky to find such a fine tool, that you hit with a hammer and it is in that good of shape? Thanks

@madhatte73

4 жыл бұрын

It's called a "glut" and used to be sort of common. Now, not so much.

@Seminex222

4 жыл бұрын

these wedges are very common here in Europe. made for hitting them with a wooden Hammer so you do not damage it...and the wood on the wedge is replaced very easy if damaged

Hello, Question: Being green wood aren’t you afraid of cracks? I know dead wood cuts bad, but what can you tel me about that? Can you do something to prevent the cracking? I’m new to carving, just started actually... Thanks for your videos, they are inspirational to me🙏🏻

@MrChickadee

4 жыл бұрын

Thats why i put lard on it.

Tu look es muy parecido sino igual a un amish.

Paul Bunyan's spoon

Good job, but you're supposed to carve it from a bigger spoon