My first efforts before I knew how to do shape of handle and bowl. Used a flat blank instead of curved, etc

Progress means learning to me. I learned to cut blanks on band saw to give handle shape and bowl tilt the way I want.

The top was a spoon before split or grain got it. It is now a tool to chop hamburger when browning. Quit effective.

Improved on bowl shape and edge.

Notice the grain and heartwood combos. I like playing with color.

Learned oak is not good for spoons. Note tip of bowl.

These two cherry spoons were playing around with ideas. The bottom one has a pot sitter on it. Works nice.
Others:


These are oven shelf pullers.

Spoon I use everyday cooking. Has nice handle, large bowl, tilt is good to taste with or serve.

Tools I use for bowls

Lower right is Kutsall course burr, Upper is Fine burr, Lower left is large sanding pad for drill press, and upper left is small sanding disk in drill press, Both disks are velcro so I can go easy from 40 to 320 grit.

Please enjoy and comment. Thanks

I like that I did not cut off top and bottom to get it square. It adds a row of blocks to top and bottom.

Thanks for reading. Appreciate any comments or critique.

In this case I’m using casting epoxy.

Tedious work. If a crack goes all the way thru, I had to put scotch tape on bottom so the crack will fill up. This material takes 24 hours to set up and will run right thru and out bottom. But it will fill crack completely, since it is casting material designed to fill every nook and cranny.

As you can see here 24 + hours later sanded out you can hardly see crack. In picture thin darker line tapering toward you to bottom left corner.

Still need to sand out epoxy and round off bottom and then finish board.

Used mineral spirits to show final color
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Look close and you will see holes in walnut. These are soft centers of log used. I use a small drill to open them up and fill with epoxy. They are too soft to leave. Also the knots are soft too. I have to fill them.

I will finish sanding, patch holes and gaps with clear epoxy and paint.

Then ready for posting

What do you think?

Tomorrow I will sand out both sides, cut the ends and take picture. I always round off top 1/4” and bottom 1/8” so I will do that and then take picture. If it is ugly I can always cut off to square.

This board cost me $1359. I bought a 16/32 plus Jet drum sander with extension table. wow!!! does this make it quick to finish after gluing. For me almost too quick. I am used to work and then pretty. This machine gets it done while I watch.

Made this drawing immediately to see if I could figure the angles.

60 degrees () to make 6 sided figure was the clue. 360/6 = 60. Took me awhile and drawing the box in bottom right of this drawing.

Next hurdle was how much wood of each type (color)? In The drawing top middle, shows board 1.6” thick. Cut on 60 with all sides equal to hypotenuse. in this cause sine 60 = 1.6/x or x= 1.85”. all sides need to be 1.85” in length. set saw at 60 cut end off at 60 and move fence 1.85” + kerf(K).

Also need length of boards to decide how much of 7” cherry, 7” wide walnut and 7” maple.
From drawing I counted 32 octagon pieces. I can get 3 cuts from 7” so I need 12 pieces from each board. 12 pieces times 3 is 36. I have 4 left over. I may need them. 12 pieces from each board and each piece is 1.25 ” thick for final board plus K. 12×1.25+K= 15+K = 15+12/8ths = 16.5 inches long. I treat this as minimum length and cut more.

I cut and planed a piece of cherry, maple and walnut 17” x 7” x 1.6”. And then cut them at 60*. I use a block of wood to set fence then spacers and feller gauge to move fence closer for next cut. Should have show the set up. It is exact to get the fence moved accurately.

All that is left is gluing up sets:

cutting 32 pieces off:

and gluing and sanding and finishing.

Gluing up was a learning. Thought I could simple stack them in square corner and glue whole board at once. THAT DID NOT work.

Ended up gluing up a row at a time with pretty good success. Wish I had taken more time and fit each piece, but by the time I ended the gaps were getting bigger. I don’t know if it was accumulating error or last stack was off from glue up.

At any rate here is sanded result:

I’ll be back