Make your own Welsh Love Spoon. (beginners)
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Make your own Welsh Love spoon. An easy to follow guide on how to make your own Welsh Love Spoon by Dai 'lovespoons' Thomas at The Lovespoon Workshop. A great reference point for anyone who is starting their journey in making Welsh love spoons. Ideal for beginners, giving an insight into some of the methods used at our family workshop on a daily basis. Breaking down the entire process of hand making a Welsh love spoon to assist you in making your own Welsh lovespoon.
The topics discussed include the tools that you might need to get started and how to do some basic cutting out and wood carving. Hopefully it highlights how anybody can carve their own Welsh love spoon.
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Hi all, If you have any questions about wood carving and love spoon making put them in the comments section and we will make a video for you. We would love to help out if possible.
Thank you all for watching, hope enjoyed and maybe feel inspired to have a go at making your own Welsh love spoon, it's great fun and if you're not sure give it a go, you might just surprise yourself. Stay safe when working with wood carving tools, all the best from us all here at The Lovespoon Workshop. 👍👍
Cheers mate, I've just finished a life changing travel to Wales where I met my now girlfriend, so for this christmas I'm gonna make her a lovespoon. your video really give me a handfull of tips to get start!
That's fantastic, it's a lovely process. I hope you enjoy making your first lovespoon. A great idea for a Christmas gift and it's always extra special and more personal if you take the time to make it yourself. Let us know if you need any advice or any other videos that might help you further. Thank you for your feedback, kindest regards Dai 'lovespoons'Thomas and everyone here at The Lovespoon Workshop.
Diolch for the video! I'm English but my partner is Welsh (from the llyn peninsula) and this video has inspired me to try and make a love spoon as a gift for them on our anniversary!
You are very welcome. Hope you enjoy the process of making your own lovespoon.
Thank you for the positive feedback and supporting our UA-cam channel. All the best from us all here at The Lovespoon Workshop. 👍👍
As a child my dad made about 20 of these for friends and family. I've been desperately looking for a way to make some for my grand babies x thank-you so much for this tutorial x can't wait to get started
Hope it's useful. We will make an updated version when we have time available. Let me know if you have any questions about the process we use to make our lovespoons.
Thank you for getting in touch, all the best from us all here at The Lovespoon Workshop. 👍👍
Trying to get things done and to catch back up. I have a couple of gouges now other than my japanese tools. Planning on 21 spoons of one sort or another
Sounds great Marty. Hope all is well with you and you enjoy with the new gouges.
Always great to hear what you are making. All the best from us all. 👍
Hello, just discovered your videos and have been binge watching them . Fascinating stuff and something I've been wanting to have a go at for ages.
Hi Stu, great to hear from you. Delighted to hear that you are enjoying our videos. Hope they are useful for the projects you are planning on having a go at making yourself. Let me know if you have any questions or requests for future videos and we will have a look at making them for you to see.
Thank you again for getting in touch and supporting our UA-cam channel. All the best from us all here at The Lovespoon Workshop. 👍👍
Good video. Ive started making spoons during the lockdown for this virus and I thought I would have a go at a lovespoon. Thanks for the instruction.
Hi David, great to hear from you. Hope you are staying safe during the lockdown. The lovespoon is a great tradition to get involved with. I hope you are enjoying the process of making your own lovespoons. Delighted to hear that you enjoyed our video, we love being able to help others get into making their own lovespoons. I was fortunate to grow up around our family workshop and learn from my father. Let me know if you have any areas of interest that you would like a video to focus upon.
Thank you again for getting in touch with us, stay safe, kindest regards Thomas the Woodcarver and family.
@@DailovespoonsThomas Thanks for the reply. My father was a craft teacher and started life as a ships carpenter so I have grown up around wood and tools. I look forward to having a go a these.
@@David15597 brilliant!! I hope you enjoy making your lovespoons, it is such a lovely tradition. Thanks again, all the best Dai 'lovespoons' Thomas.
Great video Dai. Does it matter what kind of wood you use? Are some woods easier to carve than others? Or can you recommend a wood that looks best? Diolch yn fawr 🏴
Hi Will, great to hear from you delighted to hear that you like the video. Alot use Flowering Lime (basswood) especially when starting with woodcarving/spoon carving. Ourselves, we use a wide variety of different hardwoods to work in. Including Oak, Ash, Mahogany, Teak, Fruit wood, Walnut, Hazel, Beech, Maple, Sycamore, Yew and Laburnum. We get a lot of wood from old furniture, fixtures and fittings that are unwanted by others. Certain woods certainly carve better than others. Lime is easy carving, Teak is great to carve, despite its reputation for being tough. Mahogany works well, as do Oak, Walnut, Sycamore, fruit wood and Beech. It comes down to personal preference and what suits you best. Things like whether you are heavier or lighter handed. In terms of the look of the wood, it depends on your preference for dark or light wood. Personally I love woods that have an interesting grain,Yew and Laburnum being great examples but they can also be challenging to work with.
Hope that gives a little insight into the wood that we work with. Thanks for supporting our UA-cam channel. All the very best from us all. 👍👍
My father used to make beautiful Welsh Lovespoons - unfortunately he can't make them anymore as he is elderly and really not well! It's good that the tradition is still going!
Hi Carrie, great to hear from you. It's a great tradition to be involved with. We are very fortunate to be able to design and handcarve bespoke lovespoons to help celebrate occasions.
Thanks again for getting in touch and supporting our UA-cam channel. All the best from us all here at The Lovespoon Workshop. 👍👍
Appreciate this, great channel.
Thank you for the positive feedback, we love to share the Welsh lovespoon tradition with everyone. It's well worth having a go at making your own lovespoons.
thanks for a great video hope to try and make 1 myself
Hi Shaun, glad you enjoyed our video. It's great fun making lovespoons so I hope you enjoy making your own. Let me know if you have any questions about the process we use.
Great to hear from you, all the best from us all here at The Lovespoon Workshop 👍👍
Great video! What type of wood would you recommend for starting out?
Hi, great to hear from you. Glad you enjoyed the video. If you are starting out Flowering Lime (Basswood) is the most popular choice. Having said that we use a wide variety of different hardwoods including Oak, Mahogany, Teak, fruit wood, Ash and Sycamore. We reclaim our wood from old furniture so it's great to recycle it.
You could start out with Flowering Lime and see how you get on and then try others to see if you prefer them.
Hope that helps, thanks for getting in touch. All the best from us all here at The Lovespoon Workshop. 👍👍
Going to make one for my girlfriend from Sweden and your guide really helps. What are the U-shaped chisel things that you use for making the petals called?
Definitely worth having a go at handcarving your own. It is such a lovely process and so much more personal if you have made it yourself. The tools you refer to are often called woodcarving chisels. Their actually more of a gouge and we sometimes refer to them as fingernail gouges due to the shape.
If you are looking to but some you can look for companies like Sorby, Ashley Isles or Henry Taylor all good gouges to get started with. You can also find some beautiful vintage gouges on Ebay by sea for woodcarving chisels.
Hope you enjoy making your own lovespoons it really is a lovely process and has such meaning if you make it yourself.
For those of us who are uh.... Less than accurate with scroll sawing, what's a good way to rememdy the shape? I find that in chasing the shape with my gouge on the outside of the spoon I am ruining the shape. Would a wood rasp be an option? Thank you!
Try all sorts, a belt sander can help to shape, as can files and a rasp. Coping saw is another option as well as using different gouges too. We make use of the band saw too. Plenty of time developing on the scroll saw is also another option. We use a Hegner Multicut 2s and a Niqua Speed number 9 reverse tooth blade. It's a great combination and it produces some pretty accurate results.
Thanks again for supporting our UA-cam channel. All the very best from us all. 👍👍
@@DailovespoonsThomas thank you! Would you say its easier to start with a coping saw or scroll saw for the types of projects on your channel. I know that the scroll saw is faster, but my question is more around the skill required for accurate cutting. I keep bouncing back and forth on whether to get blades for the scroll saw or to buy a coping saw.
Scroll saw all the way. It's a corner stone of what we do here at our family workshop and without it I don't think we could compete with the cheap imports and mass production. The sooner you can get to grips with the scroll saw the better your chances of being successful. 👍👍
@@DailovespoonsThomas thank you! Very helpful!
am surprised you don't use a power fret saw to cut the basic shapes out....
Hi, we use a hegner scroll saw to cut out a basic outline for the lovespoons we sell here at our family workshop. Then after all the lovespoons are handcarved and hand finished. I used a coping saw in this video to demonstrate how you can start with basic and inexpensive tools. Hope you enjoyed the video.
Thank you for the comment, best wishes Dai 'lovespoons' Thomas.
Whoa. No Hegner 😮
Thanks. I appreciate this vid.
Glad it's useful Marty, all the very best from us all. 👍
Diolch :)
Hi,
Hope it is useful to you. We love sharing our work with the Welsh lovespoon tradition.
Thank you again, kindest regards Dai 'lovespoons' Thomas. Diolch
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Thanks, the lovespoon tradition goes back to the 17th century here in Wales. Hope you enjoyed the video, all the best from us all. 👍👍
@@DailovespoonsThomas Ďakujem aj ja prajem do noveho roku všetko najlepšie a čakame všetci na video z roku 2023