Kitchenware

Kitchenware is a fun side project.

http://westonk12engineering.org/woodworking/pages/kitchenware.htm

When doing spoons, make sure you gouge out the bowl before you cut out the spoon.

Look at artist pages first for ideas

Make Mock-up in corrugated cardboard first, transfer to wood

• Gouge bowl first for spoons

• Make relief cuts

• Make Edge Profile cuts

• Make face cuts

• Shape edges with chisel

• Glue up curvy pieces; beefing up a handle with layers

• Smooth with 3 grades of sandpaper

• Drill hole for hook

• Oil Finish

• Decoration- Don't ruin it at the end!

Materials:

• 1x4 pine

• 1x4 radiata premium pine

• 1x4 padauk, walnut in thin strips

• 1x8 maple

Practice first with soft pine, then glue-up hardwoods

• Simple spoon or spatula

• Flatware

• Built-up blocks and ladles

• Try using found wood doweled together

salad tongs- 1/4" cherry or maple

Butterknife- 1/4" maple

Spoons and spatulas by Jonathan's Wild Cherry Spoons

You can also make a small wall rack with hooks to hold your creations.

Links

• Jonathan's Wild Cherry Spoons

• Cutting Board Project

• Treestump Woodcrafts -Salad Servers, Bowls

• Davin & Kessler- Mirrors,small items

• Crate and Barrel Salad Hands

• Olivewood Utensils- Crate and Barrel

• Meb's Kitchenware-Utensils