making spoons from flooring strips

[Smallpatch]

For someone with few tools. I had some bamboo left from a job and the light and dark is great to carve all areas as the lines is a good guide to go by so it will turn out like a professional might have did the work.

 

I found a plastic spoon maw uses in the flower beds so I could clamp to the bamboo to be able to trace around it without it sliding all over the place.

After tracing it out I used the scroll saw but a thin blade on a bandsaw would work or a jig saw. Next for the grinding was with a 1 x 42" belt-disk sander, nothing else. All the outside curves can be made with the one machine. The inside curve in the cup will be made using a pistol grip Harbor Freight air grinder with a 1/4" bit #259668 from Wood Carvers Supply, Inc out of Florida. These type bits will last and last.

  I started on this spoon this morning after I messed around gluing the butterfly wood pieces together so these spoons with out fancy wood carvings can be made in less than a day.

  Don't know if every one knows how the bamboo is colored in different shades but the only way is to heat the bamboo to different temps. 

  This is regular Bamboo flooring from who ever sells wood flooring. I'm cheap for I bought at auction many different types of wood flooring from a company who was selling out and had hundreds of full boxes that ended up being extra from many jobs but not enough of any one type and color that would do a room so this made the extra boxes a mighty good bargain. This has been stacked up in my barn going on 40 years. Hey, onced I cut out beer all that money went in to new surplus things and sure glad cause that money stopped when we sold out and went to the lake.

 

Wood flooring has these gruves on one side that has to be removed. A drum sander works great but without one would be a problem to remove!

 

and that does it. 

[Grandpadave52]

That's pretty cool Patch. Thanks for the post. May give something like that a try this summer when I can get back in the shop. Have several random pieces of maple, cherry and hickory flooring I bought at a garage sale a few years back.

[Smallpatch]

These are for wife's use so don't need extra small holes for food to hide in. 

[lew]

Thanks for the "how-to", Jess!

[Terri Littlefield Miller]

Love those! I could sell them for you. 

[Smallpatch]

Made this second one since two this afternoon/

 These are for maw to use and it would not be a good idea to sell them more until we see how they hold up.

[Smallpatch]

I have only seen three different woods used effectively for use in the kitchen,  white oak, bamboo and teak but if they are for show only on the wall then any wood will do. I figure there are many woods that might work but like teak I bet they are expensive.

[lew]

Maple works well for kitchen wares

[Woodman]

I've been using a spoon / stirrer for years which I thought was walnut but I guess it is teak. No holes. Careful not to let it soak.

 

Last year I added to my spurtle collection. It's now up to one. Robert sells his varied pieces on Saturdays @ Uptown Farmer's Market  in Phoenix. It's made from the shoestring acacia tree, but he crafts in all types of wood.

 

spurtle - noun: a wooden stick for stirring porridge. ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin, perhaps from Latin spatula, or from sprit (a pole to extend a sail on a ship)

 

Edited February 27, 2022 by Dovetail
¿ walnut or teak ?

[Cal]

Pretty neat Jess

[Gene Howe]

Really nice, Jesse. thanks for the post.

[HARO50]

20 hours ago, Terri Littlefield Miller said:

Love those! I could sell them for you. 

Yes, but that would make it a JOB!

[Smallpatch]

These will be used in the skillets and on the flat griddle and maybe when she wants to to splash a small portion of what she is stirring out on to the floor!

 It seems like there needs to be something rubbed in to the bamboo to protect it like I know 100% tung oil does but I'm afraid our goodies might change their flavor!?

[Gerald]

6 hours ago, Smallpatch said:

These will be used in the skillets and on the flat griddle and maybe when she wants to to splash a small portion of what she is stirring out on to the floor!

 It seems like there needs to be something rubbed in to the bamboo to protect it like I know 100% tung oil does but I'm afraid our goodies might change their flavor!?

I would say mineral oil or walnut oil

[lew]

+1 for the mineral oil 

[Gene Howe]

Anybody use Behlen's Salad bowl finish? I used it on a series of candy dishes and it was shiny and durable. Not sure it would be any good for cooking utensils, though.