Carving a Serving Spoon from a Maple Tree
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- čas přidán 9. 09. 2024
- From Tree to Spoon! The kids have been really interested in wood carving, so I made a spoon with them to show them the process. I'm no spooncarver, and need to get or make some real spoon carving tools. But I'm still rather happy with how the spoon turned out.
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This is so lovely! It is very generous of you that you let your kids watching and helping while you work. I remember my dad used to let me help when I was about 5 years old. He is a cabinetmaker. This is the greatest heritage my dad has given me. Cheers!
Great video! Hot chocolate in the winter and lemonade in the summer, lol!
Thanks Josh! Marian so loves to bring me stuff too.
I like your video as it tells a story with your family while spoon carving.
I must say that I am mostly impressed by your parenting! Your calm and patient way to involve your kids is just exemplary. It's really problematic that most children in the developed world never experience this with their parents or relatives. They only experience parents coming home from their office being tired and relaxing in front of a screen.
I am sooo grateful to have been raised in a family with parents raised on small farms and not scared of undertaking manual tasks with us kids involved as well. On of my fondest memories from childhood and adolescence is of the whole family involved in a humbe, simple task. Pity, that children of today don't get to learn and appreciate the value of manual work in the family. It's an aquired taste as so many good things in life,
Well thank you! Well said. Always room to do better, I can promise you. But the kids are happy, healthy, and smart. This is the best environment to raise them in I am convinced.
Enjoyed the fact that your children are so interested in what your doing, your a really good father
I kept waiting for, 'Mary, would you like to give this to your mother?'
I often wonder how valuable a recording of my GrandFather doing what he loved would be? Alan will cherish this.. as well as his children’s children! 👍🏼
Dude, you're not kidding! That is something I think about often.
Nice spoon and your kids are adorable. Keep up the good work and God bless you and your family 👪
Thank you for the video, this brought to memory a lot about my childhood times
Your children are so absorbed in what you are doing, that is wonderful to see them learning through observation basic life skills. The way you include them in what you do is extraordinary these days where kids are stuck inside and attached to a computer. I loved to be in my grandpa's workshop since the day I could walk. By the age of ten, he was teaching me how to use hand tools and even built me a mini version of his cabinet makers bench. He was a furniture maker as was his father, his grandfather, and so on. By the age of 14, I had learned to use what few power tools he had. That was 50 years ago and woodworking has been a lifetime passion for me. I'll be 60 next month and to this day I can still conjure up the smell of his shop which was a blend of wood and cherry pipe tobacco. When I retire at 50, I bought a 10x16 foot shed and insulated it, and ran a subpanel out to it. I've always heated it with electric heaters, but I'm at the beginning of building a mini wood stove for the shop out of an expansion tank that came off my old furnace. The shop is small so this will be big enough. I need to get the rest of the steel for the door and plate on top to heat water for tea. Both you and your wife are blessed to have such well-behaved and interested in what you do.
Very nice spoon and a nice family. Thanks and take care.
Nice build sir. But even more importantly you showed your son and daughter how it was done! Well done!
Thank you!
Beautiful spoon great to see the kids watching and learning!
Such an enjoyable video. Family goals for sure 👊🏻
Thank you!
If mom is making lemonade, who is filming ? 😆Great video, thanks for sharing !
Most of the videos on our channel were filmed and produced by a friend who is a professional videographer.
This was fabulous from beginning to end! Perfect use of light and perspective; interesting content; charming subjects; all around great video that was a pleasure to watch.
Thank you Mrs. Thompson!
Good video, im left headed too, getting a new bearded axe soon, much love
Your cameraman's skills are improving with each vid - starting to look quite professional now. Love the teaching moments.
Bo is the man! Always professional!
Loved the way Allen looked when you mentioned the riffle box🙂
Haha yeah, one of our pet projects. 😁
It is good to the young ones being involved in projects and learning
I love doing projects with them!
“This is all for me” “no it’s not, I brought four cups!” …. Mom behind the camera: 🧐 ‘hey, don’t I get lemonade?’
I can't believe these videos don't have like a half million views. Love the content!
Haha thank you! Hopefully we'll get there!
So enjoyed this, beautiful family;
And a very nice ice cream spoon 😊
We work with our kids like this whenever possible, I just wish I could have a home shop business to do it all week long!
No need to be a pro spoon carver, like you said just take off everything that doesn't look like a spoon, and an imperfect result still gets the job done.
I think the kids seeing us make things from scratch is of great value to them developmentally, for their creativity and self reliance.
Couldn’t agree more! Thanks for watching!
My children used to sit and watch me like that. I suppose its time for me to make them their own tools and let them have at it, to rekindle interest
I am definitely enjoying seeing my kids develop interests in hand tools and handiwork. It is of paramount importance that I get my shop more finished so it is more conducive to them being able to work on stuff.
Such a great environment to raise kids, so many people get lost in the busy race missing out on the simple parts of life that really bring a family together, I was raised on a farm, in the dirt and having fun the way God intended and I’m grateful for it. I’m also curious if a spoon like that cracks or twists as it dries?
Agreed! We are very blessed. No, as spoons are small enough cracks are rarely an issue in drying, and twisting isn’t either unless the grain is really weird.
@@AxeAndAnvil Thank you, that’s good to know!
Love your content.
Thank you! Appreciate that.
Great video👍 beautiful family. Congrats 👏
Thank you!
Nicely done! I enjoyed your video very much. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you, and thanks for watching!
Yes, that’s a fine spoon, Sir!
I bet your youngens don’t play on mommy’s iPhone or go on the XBox.!
I envy you, and thank you for sharing this fine lifestyle y’all liven.
Haha it ain't perfect. But yeah, we try to give them unplugged things to be busy with.
Sweet video, like the spoon!
Thanks!
Aren't young'ns just the best?
Nice spoon love those big facets straight from te drawknife on the bowl
Thank you! Agreed!
A great family fun day.
It really was!
What part of Tennessee do you live? I also live in the volunteer state. I’d love to come to visit. Maybe I could make a Fro with you and you could show me the ropes. Always wanted one but never had the means to make one until recently.
I live about 1.5 hours west of Nashville. Email me through the Axe and Anvil Hand Works website and we can talk about a froe class if you like
Looks like good fun 🙂 Chairs and Treenwork are daily calling to me 😬
Man we gotta get together and do SOME kinda project soon.
Stupid question .. reckon what pocket knife u r using ?
Thank u sir in advance for ur response .
Chad
Great Video, was wondering why you wear a gun?
Thanks! Same basic principle as is behind keeping a fire extinguisher handy. Just on the very rare off chance you’ll ever need it to protect others or yourself. Basic responsibility and love for neighbor.
protect from what?@@AxeAndAnvil
Nice going buddy. You killed a whole tree just to make spoon. Next time, go to the dollar store and buy a wooden spoon for a dollar instead of killing trees.
Nice going, dude, you just made a lot of assumptions. 😂 You assumed we didn’t use the rest of the tree (we did, it wasn’t wasted), that dollar store spoons are from sustainably harvested wood,😂 and what else? Yeah, maybe you should think before typing, or at least ask some questions before leaving a comment like that. Cheers.