Kentucky Armory Club

here is the finished spoon. perfect size to eat with and not take too much room in the pack.



Put a paracord lanyard on it so i can hang it. Now, on to the fork......

That looks great... I like the paracord lanyard.

Good job man.

Hell they all look good so far.

Thank you sir!

Alright, found a hunk of oak from the yard. A little wet from yesterday's rain, but not soaked thru.

Loaned my axe to a friend for his camping trip, so I'm doing the rough out with an old meat cleaver. Cheap, holds an edge, good heft, this was one of the best ten bucks I ever spent.

Updates to come!

- Keith

Drifter stole my lanyard idea! (Kidding. That looks great. Think I'll do the same!)

- Keith

I figured that would be handy to hang it at camp or in the pack. Plus it looks cool lol. I am going to make a fork and possibly a Bowl to go with it. Make it a set lol.

That's a good idea.

I went back for a closer look at SoL's spoon... Looks like he put a lanyard on his as well! I think once I have a funtioning spoon using blades and elbow grease, I'll kick over to more modern techniques to finish it. I have a wood burning tool and some interesting wood stains I made up from alcohol and dried berries.

And some food grade butcher block mineral oil which is my preferred kitchen wood finish.

- K

drifter0069 wrote:I figured that would be handy to hang it at camp or in the pack. Plus it looks cool lol. I am going to make a fork and possibly a Bowl to go with it. Make it a set lol.

Yeah. Yers is so compact, you could snap it and the fork onto a carabiner attached to the outside of the pack with no problem! Pretty slick. Nice job!

- K

I am going to make some for friends, but am going to use modern tools. I wanted my first set to be just my pocket knife and fire. I am interested to see how bad a** I can make one with my shop tools lol.

LOL going to be some spoon making fools for awhile! A friend of mine and not very active member on here sent me a picture of his spoon on facebook, his is very interesting so I figured I would share his photo for him so you super crafty guys could get some idea. His spoon is a take down spoon so it fits in his cook pot and the corner edge has the same radius as his pot so it scrapes it clean, VERY COOL IDEA!

son of liberty wrote:LOL going to be some spoon making fools for awhile! A friend of mine and not very active member on here sent me a picture of his spoon on facebook, his is very interesting so I figured I would share his photo for him so you super crafty guys could get some idea. His spoon is a take down spoon so it fits in his cook pot and the corner edge has the same radius as his pot so it scrapes it clean, VERY COOL IDEA!

I saw that on his page last night. That is badass!

Went to the river near my house. There is a elevation drop there and lots of driftwood accumulates. My boy helped me find a good piece to work on. Not sure what type wood it is though.

Ok After another hour or so of whittling and cussing, this is where I am on the spoon. I've have some worm holes I have to deal with. Going to make my own filler from sanding dust and wood glue. Basic bowl inner and outer shape done, just needs some fine tuning and sanding. Haven't decided what I want to do with handle. Thinking rounded bottom with flat top or just eased edge square, something different than just round.
Back at it tomorrow night.

that is very impressive nemo. mine is no where near that precise lol. How did you hollow out the spoon? looking for trade secrets lol

son of liberty wrote:

I wish I had a hook knife. I used a 1/4 scoop chisel and a sharpened paint can key. Used gouge to hog out materiel and paint key as scraper and shaping followed by sanding. I'm leaving my modern high dollar tools out of this.

Wait up now! Hold on for a hot second! You didn't say we could use a hook knife! I thought the point was to use what you had in yer Bush Kit. You mean to tell me you keep a draw/push knife in yer kit?!! And here I am hacking away with a flippin' cleaver!

I burned out a shallow bowl with hot coals tonight, got some gross shaping to do yet, then on to the finish line.A hook knife would come in handy about now...

- Keith

The Goal is to make a functional spoon with your bushcraft kit, it is common to see people go crazy and use chisels, gouges, drills, hook knives, but the best spoons are still carved with a sharp stone and give you splinters when you use them

I used a swiss army knife, I would like people to use just there bush kit tools, but beyond that I would like people to participate.

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I'm just messin' with ya. This is a lot of fun! I haven't whittled a spoon in... 25 years? It's amazing what you forget. Thanks SoL. I'm really enjoying the series.

- K

If things go as planned, I will be trying both this and the try stick from Week 1 in the next two days. Living on a college campus and not having personal transportation limits my material acquisitions... But I have a buddy coming tomorrow, hopefully with a few sticks of appropriate size.

Okay. Not the purdiest spoon I've ever made, but it *IS* the first one I've ever hacked out of firewood with a cleaver! And it'll hold soup in a pinch

Finished it off with some mineral oil and a jute twine lanyard, and burned a Louisville fleur-de-lis pattern on the bottom just so everyone will know whose spoon it is!

The other spoons on here to date are just too bad-a** for me to compete with! Good job, guys.

- Keith

Kadnine, that looks badazz. I think it turned out awesome. I like anything handmade over machine made any day.

I agree, all the spoons look great! To turn a log to a useful tool is a art form. I will never take a spoon for granted again.

May go home and finish mine today.