Time for another brew spoon

Ryan Mooney

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A piece of cherry and some layout tools
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The long part of the handle.
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The handle part of the handle (if you can handle that?).
Interweaving another strand to make three stands so it will be a smidge rounder. Also tightened up the weave a bit. If you look closely you'll note that the extra stand starts and ends here :). It's the little details.
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The whole thing
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Bandsaw and drill press fit the rough out

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Some work with a little Japanese keyhole saw to open up the middle and a bit of cleanup on the outside with a rasp to remove the bandsaw marks
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Then mark the midline on the side to set the depth of the strands
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It's good to cross check the pattern at times, I was almost cutting the wrong strand here but caught it in time.
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Front of the handle roughed out
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Transfer the pattern to the back and repeat. You might notice I make the first crossing cuts pretty shallow, this gives me a bit of room to triple check before removing a lot of material.
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Getting there...
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Handle pretty much done. I'll do another light cleanup pass at the end but this is pretty much the shape we're stuck with a this point.
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Starting to work my way back towards the bowl end. I'm mostly cleaning up as I go to try and keep as much meat in the heavy removal areas as I can.
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Hope you guys are having half as much fun watching as I am doing ;)
 
I wasn't doing a very good with hair braiding....I'm getting a better ideal on how to do it by watching you....Thanks for the free lesson!
 
Bill, it's about 3' long. The bowl is about 3.5" wide and the handle is about 1.4" wide after carving.

Continuing the march towards the end with the main tools of destruction at this point.

I've been cutting the lines where the twist crosses to just shy of the midpoint with the little razor saw then paring away the bulk of the waste with the large bench chisel.

The two gouges are used to round over the outside and the knives are used to clean up the inside where I can't get with the gouge as easily (although I've been leaving most of the inside alone on this pass).

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Still a bit shaggy in spots, bit that's the bulk of the material gone.

Not looking forward to cleaning up those inside corners.. I might cheat and use some rifflers then knife finish it afterwards (the plan is to leave this knife/chisel finish with no sanding, we'll see how that theory goes)..

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Cleaning up the corners, the grain changes there are a bit of a bear. I ended up resorting to some riflers and needle files.

This is in progress showing one started and one almost done.

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Some before the oil shots.
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