/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1833050
Strip your stick. I used a combination of puukko and mill knife.

>>1833051
Naked stick, with mill knife.

>>1833054
Decide on an end for the scoop

>>1833055
This is my first time making a spoon so any advice will be appreciated.

I hollowed out a scoop with my puukko.

>>1833056
Made the scoop bigger.

>>1833058
Filed it down.

>>1833060
Looks like this.

It's fucking terrible dude; I love it.

You need to start with a bigger stick retard, how much soup are you going to hold in that spoon, a mouse-sized portion, the little tiny ants are looking at your spoon saying "dang I'm not going to get much soup per spoon there am I"

Looks like something from ethnographic collection
>"And this tool was used to pick clean whale bones by eskimo people"
Also reminds me of other /diy/ anon, who has a side hustle of carwing hand-made wooden dildos

>everything I eat tastes like terpenes now
well at least you tried

>>1833071
Sorry I wasn't done posting. There's more.

So I cleaned it up with oil and saw bore holes.

>>1833093
Yeah. I leant this making it. I was going to make a tiny teaspoon but I made the hole too deep and too long.

>>1833104
Thanks. Maybe one day I will have a side hussle as ethnographic-museum-style spoon maker.

>>1833116
It's birch. I think.

How do you deal with bore holes? Do you just find less rotten wood?

I decided to poke an unfolded paperclip into the hole to unclog the sawdust since I don't mind if there are holes in a teaspoon/scoop.

I found many wormies in my wood, which it why the spoon ended up a weird shape. I let the beetle larvae location dictate the shape of my spoon. Adding holes and thinning sections that look more infested to make sure I don't have any bugs (or only have minimal bugs) in the end product.

This is what the head looks like. I wanted to keep the little side branch as a useful holder but sadly there is a bore hole that goes between it and the main branch...

All larvae were swiftly euthanized with puukko or mill knife.

There were more holes than I expected. I noticed them after cleaning with hemp oil.

Goodbye cup holder branch :(

Anyone have advice about picking good, insect-free branches?

>>1833166
Halfway through the spoon. I let the wood reveal the spoon that was hidden inside rather than forcing my will upon it.

>>1833170
It lacks structural integrity and the join between the head and body is definitely a weak point I will improve on for the next spoo

The bottom of the spoon didn't seem to have any bore holes. I was going to do spiral all the way down but then I noticed a nipple.

The nipple is here >>1833170

When tree give you nipple, make boobie.

>>1833178
Left side of boob. Nice and perky.

>>1833181
Right side of boob. Nice and perky.

>>1833182
Underboob. Nice and perky.

The finish product. I will boil this.

>>1833202

>>1833203

Boil in tea to kill anything that may be living in the wood. Naturally antimicrobial.

Coffee scoop.

>>1833212
>>1833216
Cool. Maybe dip it in some linseed oil or hit it with some spray shellac or something.

>>1833236
There's no reason to do that, all it does is waste your time and make them "look pretty" for about a week, assuming you actually use your wooden utensils, then you have to do it again.

>>1833212
why tea
just boil it in regular water
tea has nothing to do with killing bacteria

>>1833261
Tea is magic

>>1833155
I will be completely honest. I have never made my own sppon so couldn't give you anti bore suggestions. Maybe soak it in brine and nuke it for 30 mins in a pressure cooker? That will kill everything and probably preserve the wood if I had to just guess.

>>1833256
I'm skeptical that shellac won't hold up to a week of spooning coffee, but, okay.

>>1833236
>>1833256
I oiled it with hemp oil. I don't plan on washing it much (and I won't use detergents when I do wash it) since it'll only be used to coffee. Should I bake the oil or something? I did two layers with a week-long dry inbetween.

>>1833261
Tea smell good, plus I figured antimicrobial tea chemical would soak into the wood and protect it somewhat from mould.

>>1833300
I boiled it for about 30 mins in tea, my only worry is any larvae hiding in the boob or end piece that would have died in there and might slowly rot from the inside out, but I didn't find any more bore holes and I've made my peace with potential rotting bug corpse in my spoon.

>>1833202
How about making a duck instead?

>>1833532
The duck would be very deformed from all other angles besides that one. I don't want to being ducky into the world to suffer.

>>1833532
> Honk
Untitled Goose Spoon

>>1834010
duck duck goose

Hello /diy/. New stick. I make another spoon now.

Blessed thread.

>>1834223
This thread feels like I'm watching a video of a retard finally managing to tie his own shoes and he's absolutely stoked that he's made it. This is both pathetic and uplifting at the same time and I'm really not sure how to react..
"Please keep going, you're doing great buddy."

>>1834222
Thank you. I decides to try looking for bore holes before carving this time. I found one in the middle of the stick.

>>1834237
Thanks buddy. That was my first spoon. I will work hard on my spoon making.

Sadly beginner's luck is over. I decided to make a nice spiral around the center (where the bore hole was) but this was my fatal mistak...

>>1834270
... spiral weakened the middle of the spoon too much :( I need to work from the ends.

I like making spirals though, feels very natural to me.

>>1834273
Maybe I will make very tiny spoons with these one day, but for now I get another stick and I make normal tiny spoon.

>>1833178
>>1833181
>>1833182
>>1833197
This is why I come here. Someone include me in the screen cap thanks

>>1834274
This stick had no bark but I stripped it anyway because it was gross.

Nice Marttiini puukko there mate, I'm also learning carving stuff out of birch. Currently making a handle for my vesuri (billhook). Will post pics once it's done.

>>1833532
is that a duck penis?

Top work spoonbro, i look forward to more of your work.

>>1834287
JOO. Marttiini Ilves puukko. Very good knife.

Why not post progress pictures too? Here I am working on half of the broken twig. I will make a short spoon. It was going to be a tiny spoon with a super long handle but alas :(

>>1834455
Is slug penis. Please google slug penis, I promise you will not be disappointed.

>>1834526
Thank you. I will make more spoons and git gud.

>>1835006
I aimed to make a normal flat-ish spoon, but the shape still turned out a bit odd, oh well

Cleaned with hemp oil. It's a very small spoon, I don't know what it can be used for? Maybe for eating soft boil quail eggs?

I wonder what do to with this middle section...

>>1835011
There is a nipple so I will definitely make a boob but there's also space for other things.

>>1835013
I am open to suggestions and inspirations.

>>1835015
>I am open to suggestions and inspirations.

Try basketweaving, or knitting. Wood carving is not in your future.

>>1833050
invented a stick

>>1835015
Honestly... I admire your artistic dedication. I recommend you use larger wood at least 2" in diameter, the wood is old enough to be more resistant and sturdy.

>>1835029
Why not anon?

>>1835048
A scoopy stick.

>>1835097
I had a big branch, 2in diameter 2m long, that I found and left to dry outside my house but someone stole it...

I made a boob. I think I'll try adding a clavicle and a neck.

Sadly, I broke some of the spiral :(

I was not able to add a clavicle and neck.

>>1835465
Here is spoon 2 next to spoon 2. I will make more spoons.

>>1835467
The spoon is very small. Just under 1cm wide and just over 2in long.

>>1835470
I don't know what I will use it for. Maybe to eat eggs.

>>1835471
I learnt a good deal from making spoon 2.

>>1835472

I once made a 'really nice' 2 pronged fork I made at a boy scout camp and kept it the entire week.

>>1835520
That's a good idea. Maybe I'll make a matching mini fork with this half.

How did you keep the wood from splitting at the prongs?

>>1835580
Or maybe I should master spoon making before moving onto forks?

comfy thread, please continue fren

You've made two spoons with bobs anon. It's clear what you need to do next: make a spoon with vagene

>>1835580
They were thick prongs, but I did deepen and sharpen them. It was basically this lol

>>1835274
>but someone stole it...
this fucking thread lmao

Nice curves, man. Kinda makes me wish my cutlery had more personality/pizzazz to it.

Gonna try next time I see a really nice stick, thank you for sharing fren. How long did it take you to carve one?

>>1835586
>>1836493
Thank you kindly frogposters.

This is spoon no. 3

>>1835589
Good point... Sadly I saw ypur post too late. Here is a spoon with another bob

>>1835593
Oh I see. I want to make a real 3/4 pronged wood fork one day.

>>1836081
I left it outside my door because I didn't think anyone would steals a 2m long stick of wood I found on the ground. But I was wrong. It is gone now and I feel saddened

Thank you based boob spoon maker

>>1833532
This whole thread is quality. I'm proud of you. I'm gonna go cut one of my fingers off while trying to make a fork

>>1836880
>>1837047
Thank you anons

I am still very inexperienced I haven't worked out how to to make cuts along the grain without it splitting. A significant challenge if I ever wanted to make a fork.

>>1838130
Like Lenny I underestimate the power of my grip. Boob spoon no. 3 will be very short.

>>1838131
Heres an idea: make a very tiny bowl for your spoon. Use it for coke

any quick tipp for a knife? ~30€

>>1839468
OP is using a Marttiini, check if you can find anything in that price range.

>>1839482
thank you answering my super generic question.

>>1839430
DAMN. That is a VERY GOOD idea. I can' afford cocaine but some generic brand cola is within my budget.

Here I rounded off the end of the spoon.

>>1839517
The boobie looks like a head now so I will add a face and a pair of boobies to it.

let me guess, OP is german

>>1839539
Why do you guess that?

>>1839546
Very small spoon next to small spoon for comparison.

>>1839547
Of course, functionality is important to me so here is the spoon itself. I am very pleased with how I used the space here.

>>1839551
It is perfectly balanced on the main nipple.

I think I will burn in the other two nipples with a hot paperclip.

I wanted to make eyes but it was harder than I thought. I ended up carving out the malformed eyeballs and making some notches instead.

Let us make nipples.

>>1839645
This will do.

>>1833346
Shellac will hold up to spooning coffee just fine, it will not hold up to washing though, shellac has poor resistance to water. There is no real need to put anything on such a spoon, daily use will do the job for you, the oils from your hands will soak into the handle, the oils from the coffee will soak into the scoop.

Good work OP, nice to see someone do something different than the basic spoon for a change.

>>1839653
Thank you anon. I hope to carve many more spoons.

Spoon no. 3

Back. I enjoy the little boobs but I also feel they detract from the main boob. Too much of a good thing is not good.

>>1839661
Side.

The top boob is too head-like and the notched on the side ruins it :( Also unaesthetic spine and bloated looking middle. I have learnt from this.

This fucking thread is pure gold.
Also captures the very essence of this board. Fellow retard anon just sitting down and doing stuff himself.

>>1839662
Top view. I am most happy with this.

>>1839667
It's a very therapeutic hobby anon, I highly recommend it.

My next spoon will use this >>1834274
piece of wood which I stripped earlier.

This will be a double ended utensil. The other end will be a fork.

>>1839736
First time I make fork.

>>1839738
I make 2.5 pronged fork, not quite as good as 3 but better than the other anon's 2 pronger.

>>1839739
This is very difficult. The wood keeps splitting along the grain...

>>1839741
Little hand.

>>1836783
Oops sorry I didn't mean to ignore you. It takes me maybe a week? I do it secretively at night.

>>1839750
based, don't let your wife yatch you while carving a boob spoon. I think a week is pretty long but I will try it reagrdless.

>>1840194
No wife to yatch you if you don't have a wife...

>>1833056

Any reason you went with carving rather than burning it out?
I find burning it out gives a much better surface.

>>1840198
No problem fren, just carve one :)

Very nice spoon maker anon. Consider a thicker stick and carving away the top half of the stick on the end with the bowl before carving out the bowl if you want to make a traditionalist bowl shape and maybe taper a slope towards the other end with the handle

>>1840453
Thank you for support anon.
>carving away the top half of the stick on the end with the bowl before carving out the bowl
Like this?

>>1840320
How do you burn it out? I can't light a fire bigger than a candle in my apartment.

>>1840324
I will try to carve a waifu under my fork. Maybe a spooky Ougi.

>>1840902
I work from reference.

I don't think Ougi will mind too much if there is a 2.5 prong fork sticking of her head.

>>1834275
me too, boobSpoon Anon will make history

>>1840918
Waifu is going surprisingly well, I hope one day to make waifu spoon w/ boobies.

>>1840934
Shit.

Waifu is going bald. My carving skill is too low at the moment to defeat this boss. I will just carve an OC anime girl with a headband or something.

Anon you are a great person and I love to read your posts every evening. This is the best thread I have seen in the last year and I just want to say thank you. If you started a YouTube channel or blog or something I would definitely be a fan of that

>>1841011
Anon... You making me emotional. This is my blog, thank you for reading and enjoying.

>>1841025
Spoonfu will have hair held back with maybe flower/laurel headband. Her name is Daphne and I am Apollo.

>>1841032
I need to tidy up the actual fork section... maybe tomorrow.

Nice work spoonbro, you're getting better, i showed the missus your spoons when you first posted and she thought they were great, she reminded me to check up on you and I'm glad i did, looking forward to see how the spoonfu turns out.

This might be my fav thing on 4chan. Keep it up anon and keep the updates coming

>>1842065
Thank you and your missus. I haven't done much spooning this weekend, but maybe later tonight. I cleared my floor of wood shavings today and it is looking very bare, I need to cover it in wood shavings again.

Here I have smoothed out my fork. The 0.5 prong is looking more like 0.3 or .4 sadly because it lost some length during sanding.

>>1842200
Here the sawdust was cleaned off with hemp oil.

>>1842120
Thank you anon. This is the scoop of spoon 4.

based
i made a small spoon out of yuropean beech for some fucking reason(the hardest wood that grows here) a few years ago
made just a shitty shallow spoon with no boobies because making the scoop is fucking impossible

>>1843017
Do you still have spoon?

If I did not have scoop tool >>1833058
I would have had a very difficult time too.

I am making trad spoonfu at the moment. Not just larp trad but real 15th century trad with her medieval headdress. Spiky headdress is called a hennin if anyone is wondering.

This will allow me to fully incorporate the fork into her design.

>>1843050
Okay the design is not authentic but you get the idea. It will be complete with ruffles.

>>1843052
Little circle clasps. Working on small detail with an 11cm blade is tricky business.

A little blood sacrifice.

>>1843055
If you puukko yourself, here is what I do:

>Stop blood dripping with some tissue while you whimper in pain
>Go rinse with running water
>Press down on wound with free hand while holding both hands above head
>When bleeding is slowed apply dressing
>After bleed has more or less stops, change into hydrocolloid bandage

Please be careful fellow anons.

two spoons ive made over the years. the larger one was my first real attempt, so you can see it's a little rough around the edges. A hook knife/spoon gouge will make your life a lot easier.

>>1838130
Make a flat plane and saw out the teeth. But if you ever feel the wood starting to split then back off, turn the piece around and work at it from the other end.

>>1843116
Very nice spoons anon. I like the first one a lot more actually, lots of characters. Hook knife is temping, but I think I'll stick with my gauges for now... will need to sharped them though, any advice?

And thank you for the fork advice, will try next time!

>>1843055
>>1843061
All I can picture is the kid in Bad Santa slashing his hand while carving that wooden pickle

Anon, are you Thurman Merman?

You know the spoons looks pretty nice for what it is.
10/10 would buy if a hipster

>>1839731
I think what this spoon lacks is a voluptuous Brazilian ass.

>>1843330
I just watched that scene. I wonder if that FAKE Santa put the pickle to use on (in) Mrs Santa's sister. Maybe I will make a pickle decoration for this Christmas.

>>1843340
Thank you anon. I wouldn't sell these though. I may hide them around ethnography museums one day.

>>1843391
Maybe for a spoon. The one after this will be a small coke bowl and coke spoon set.

>>1843284
>acquire scrap bit of leather
>mount leather to scrap bit of wood if needs moar sturdy
>acquire stick of honing compound
>molest leather with stick
>swipe business end of cutting tool across molested section of leather a few times
>repeat after each spoon/more often as needed
highly enjoyable thread is highly enjoyable. put strop into jewtube to see how to do the swipey part

>not waifu knaifu
Nice thread, boob spoon anon, ganbare!

Spoonbro died from stick sepsis. RIP

>>1833532
nice spoon mate

>>1844194
For scrap leather you can pick up a cheap old belt from a thrift shop, very good for sharpening blades.

C’mon spoonbro! Keep showing us your creations, I really wanna see a finished Daphne :)

>set out to carve spoon
>end up with erotic fertility idol
All according to keikaku

>>1833532
Did the same thing with salad spoons in highschool. It was hilarious.

spoonbro pls come back

I opted for a basic design, but I like the look of that long and thin spoon. You inspired me, this stupid fucking spoon is the first project in over a year that I dedicated myself to sit down and finish in one sitting and had the motivation to do so. Thanks OP.

>>1848679
Nice !
How do you guys prevent your wooden spoons to rot ?

>>1839750

Anon why are you making these spoons in secret?

>>1844194
>>1846650
Ah good tip about the goodwill belts! I will keep an eye out. Will pleather work too if I apply the compound?

>>1845341
Fake news. I just cut really deep that I couldn't really grip or use my left-hand middle finger for a week or so. I nicked a nerve so it's still a bit tingly.

Here is Buckminsterfullerene light diffuser I made out of decorative pipecleaners during my recovery.

>>1845295
I will make waifu knaifu one day! I wanted to make a butter knife for a long time.

1cm anime faces are too difficult to carve with 25cm big puukko at the moment. This is the best I can manage for now, I will get better.

>>1845481
>>1846662
Thank you anons! Daphne ended up look a bit like Avalokiteśvara.

>>1850359
I set out to make anime waifu but I accidentally a bodhisattva. Maybe she is Tara, Wikipedia: "She is known as the "mother of liberation", and represents the virtues of success in work and achievements."

I am happy with the profile but I need to plan better so I can include ear.

>>1850370
I give her new name: Tara. She will have tasteful boobies.

>>1846784
Who's keikaku is this? I would like to file complaint.

>>1848435
Sorry for my long absence anon! I return.

>>1848679
That is a very nice spoon anon! It's very elegant. I am very happy for you and your spoon! You also picked a very nice stick, no holes, very good! You should make more, it's a very addictive hobby. I plan to make spoons to give exclusively to friends and family, no more buying gifts. It will dramatically cut down on all future present costs and you can never have too many spoons.

>>1848681
Hello. I apply hemp oil to my spoon whenever I clean the sawdust from sanding, and then I apply more at the end in layers. I massage the oil into the boobies.

I do not wash my egg spoons with harsh cleaners. I do not wash the coffee spoon at all.

>>1848746
Why would I tell people in the real world I find wild sticks to hand carve tiny spoons with bobs?

I make cute belly.

>>1850386
Any plans to, uh, "hot glue" her when done and post?

>>1850514
Maybe I'll get a jar and give it a hot glue bath over the radiator.

>>1848681
Not that guy, I've had a set of wooden spoons for 10 years that I run through the dishwasher at least every other day. They're fine. I'll get at least 5-10 more years out of them. 15-20 years of regular washing with no rot? I wouldn't worry about it, and when they finally do die, just carve another one.

>>1850386
lol anon that's pretty cool desu
i'd be ok with meeting a bob spoon wood carver in real life

>>1850726
>he doesnt know
based innocent spooncarver

>>1848679
how can you eat soup from eat tho

>>1850753
Oh that's a good point. Spoonanon here, I also have some store-bought wooden spoons/spatulas that I have has for years and run through the dishwasher. For artisan delicate spoons be gentle.

>>1851260
Maybe you've already met one but you don't know because they carve in secret.

Here I made dress for Tara.

>>1851301
Base innocent poster not know about hot glue jar over radiator.

I decided the branch nodule needed to be a boob.

Excavate boob.

>>1851888
Very nice trips. Well done me.

I am thinning the spoon neck here.

>>1851888
Rough boob, this will need some fine detail work and smoothing.

>>1851900
Oh dubs! Well done me.

There is a dark dot on this side of the spoon but it is not protruding, this can potentially be a boob but I believe it is better suited to be an eyeball.

Bob after shaping.

>>1851902
Bob is still not satisfactory but I think it will do for now. If I weaken the upper area too much carving downstream will be difficult.

I forgot to take progress photos for the eyeball. Sorry.

>>1851906
What I did was I carved out the iris and then started excavating the eyeball. I wanted to do eyelids but my skills are not good enough yet.

>>1851908
The iris should stick put a little but I messed up and took off too much. Next time I will know.

Bump for bob spoon

Please come back fren

>>1833051
AHHHHHHH I CUT MY FUCKING HAND AHHHHHHHHHHHHH

i need more wooden tiddies

Please return boobanon, the people desire your soft yet wooden mammaries and bhoddisatvas!

W-what if he cut his finger and then it got infected and then he died?

>>1851908
Your one-eyed spoon looks like a surprised cyclops. That's not a euphemism, you perverts; put your glue jars away.

these spoons are too damn small!

>>1833170
>I let the wood reveal the spoon that was hidden inside rather than forcing my will upon it.

>>1851301

theres so many pictures of sticks in this thread

What a great thread. I want one of your masterpieces, OP.

>>1833170
>I let the wood reveal the spoon that was hidden inside rather than forcing my will upon it.
Our based and fellow spoonbro is also a philosopher

>>1834177
Duck duck go

>>1839430
Can you explain this to me? I have no idea what you meant by this

>>1839662
Stop being so hard on yourself, it looks great

Plz make ass spoon

>>1858972
You can snort cocaine out of a very tiny spoon. Some people grow a long pinkie fingernail for the same purpose. Carrie Fisher famously had one that was visible in some scenes of Star Wars. I guess you could make a separate bowl for cocaine as well, and consume it like cereal.