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Bushcraft: Carving a Wooden Spoon and a Hooked Knife Handle at the Log Cabin

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While boiling maple syrup on the fire at the off grid log cabin, I practice bushcraft by carving a wooden serving spoon with a Haida carving knife that I carved a handle for earlier. I carved the knife handle from a piece of hard sugar maple, installed the blade with brass rivets and wrapped the handle with braided decoy anchor line. I coated the string serving with wood glue and sanded it and the maple wood handle smooth with 220 grit sandpaper. I sharpened the hook blade with three sharpening stones, from coarse to fine and then finished it off on the leather strop. Once the carving knife was assembled and sharpened, I split a piece of hard yellow birch with my splitting froe, axe and Adventure Sworn knife and use a combination of a small straight blade carving knife, the 4 bushcraft knife and the Haida carving (hook blade) knife. Once it was close to the finished shape, I sanded it with 80 grit sandpaper, then 150 grit, then 220 grit. I dipped the spoon in water to raise the grain and set it out to dry in the wind and sun and then sanded it again. The wooden spoon is to be used for serving one pot meals cooked on the open fire and the wood stove, so the handle is long and the bowl deep. The wood is extremely strong and tight-grained. I sealed it with two coats of mineral oil, sanding lightly between coats. I'll reseal it a few times over the next month or two and then maybe twice per year. While I'm working on the knife and spoon, my wife and dog Cali are there. My wife is helping with the sap boiling and preparing meals while I'm tending to the fire. Our golden retriever is a retrieving fanatic and is constantly asking me to throw her training dummy to retrieve. When I'm not doing that for her, she sleep on the front porch of the tiny house log cabin and chases the red squirrels that roam the property around the cabin. I'll continue carving utensils for the cabin, including some bigger spoons, some small eating spoons, cups, kuksa, bowls and a spatula. Links to products I use at the cabin; Agawa Canyon Boreal 21 Saw Mora Knife Lamp OiI Wall Lantern (candle lit) Canon 6D Axe
Date: 2020-11-30

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Comments and reviews: 10

Barb
Great looking spoon Shawn. The natives on the West Coast of B. C. call those knives crooked, bent or draw knives. They use them like you did holding it with your fist, but they draw the knife towards themselves. A cylindrical stone would work well for sharpening that knife. Carry on with the beans and rice. Now you just need to add the corn for the Three Sisters!
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dontbeadrone
My entire life, I wanted a dog just like Cali. I begged, and begged, and begged my parents for a Golden Retriever. Instead, they brought home a hermit crab for me. If that isn't cruel, I don't know what is! I don't hold this against them, though. They are great parents. except for that incident!
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Mike
love your cabin. would just change the sign on the door (not in keeping with the rest of your work. also store your dry food (rice flower, pasta. regards in jars and add a bay leaf to prevent weevils (from my ocean cruising days ) regards michael
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MR
Just getting caught up on your vids-great filming technique and an inspiration-well done! Youre a magician with wood, if that were me, Id be missing a few fingers! Keep up the outstanding videos and wed like 10 spoons to go!
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Васяндр
my brother made a similar spoon! And he lives in Russia in Siberia! He has a similar house in the forest, too there is a dog and in general you snit are very similar only it Russian
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Griffin
myselfreliance. I tried to carve a spoon just like you did after watching your video. I bought knifes however, I cut my hand and had to get 4 stitches while carving.
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Steve
You eat bear meat and live in bear country, why do you not carry a large caliber pistol? Do you really think you can fight a bear with that hunting knife?
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Patricia
Once you have finished building and stocking your homestead, you could perfect some of those wooden spoons, etc, and sell them on ebay?
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Drone
You have had the undivided attention of my two sons, 4 and 11 years old, for the last 17 minutes. Thank you, and your cabin is beautiful!
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