Spoon Carving with Bertie Sømme.
By craftsmanm
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Some elements of spoon carving demonstrated by professional spoon carver Bertie Sømme. Bertie has been carving spoons for over 25 years.
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16 comments so far
Vamakrish
February 4, 2008
what wood did this guy use?
chocograph
March 27, 2008
my name’s Jørn Sømme and I’m from Norway. Maybe we’re related
craftsmank
April 9, 2008
The wood was cherry.
Bertie is now craftsmank. More postings on that site.
fly2000jtb
April 20, 2009
What type cherry wood, we have many wild types in the U.S.A. I have 4 different types in my backwoods, water cherry, wild cherry, black cherry, red cherry, cherry bush, etc… I was wondering will any cherry work?
craftsmank
April 24, 2009
I have yet to find a wood that wont carve. Some carve well, others not so good, some like sumac or rhodenendron are poisonous (personal experience) but cherry should be fine, id love to see the finished items – if you can do a link so other visitors here can see -
Bertie
hermionejane2004
March 23, 2010
sorry to aske this but what wood is best to start this for begainers?
craftsmank
March 28, 2010
Pine is something that most dont consider, but it is easily available and usualy carves well – and a great way to learn
ThePhantomBlacksmith
May 16, 2010
Okay, so there is no real easy way of hollowing out the dish. You’ve just gotta get in there and dig it out with grim determination and elbow grease….drat, I was afraid of that…lol
hoppper26
June 1, 2010
yeah pine is a soft wood and easy to carve, but it cracks very easily.
mlminto
August 6, 2010
is that a hans karlsson gouge, or could you tell me who made it? nice spoon, nice vid.