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Sugar spoons in oak

My Mum bought a sugar spoon in the sixties, and wanted a couple of copies done for two friends of the same vintage. This spoon is a classic example of the angular designs of the period, optimised for mass production and a bit tricky to reproduce in small numbers. The time to build the necessary jigs to do it with routers would be longer than just carving by hand.
First step: dig out the bowls from the edge of a 2″ by 4″ bit of oak:

 

 

Then cut out the blanks on the bandsaw:

 

 

Keeping the original handy, bring the shape together with belt sander (yuk) and block plane.

 

 

 

 

And finally sand with 120 grit, raise the grain, sand with 240 grit, raise the grain, sand again at 320 grit, then finish with a food safe oil (Nostalgia, appropriately enough!). The original has long since lost its original finish (if it ever had one) but I'd lay money that it was a good old carcinogenic danish oil or similar.

 

 

Done! One happy mother, which is always a good thing.

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