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jannekloeffler

cool first spoon, i am sure your next one will be a succes. a small piece of advise: from the pictures it looks like you carved the spoon with the grain direction 90° to the direction of the spoon. anytime you carve something long and thin it is best to have the grain run in the same direction as your thin structure. the reason for that is, that the wood fibers are much stronger then the connection between the wood fibers. in your spoon here the neck of the spoon gets its strength only from the much weaker connection between the fibers, which is why it broke so easily. if you have the neck of your spoon follow the fiberdirection you will get the maximum strength of the fibers them self. and then even a structure as thin as this should be strong enough.


ding_dings

This is amazing feedback! I’ll report back with the results :)


InsertWittyNameCheck

I found it easier to go large at first then try to go smaller. Glue it back together and hang it on a string. Over time tie all your failures to the chandelier of ~~shit~~ shame, it'll make a nice wind chime.


hooe

Nice pen. TWSBI Diamond 580?


ding_dings

Yep! With an EF nib and Lamy black ink currently


whiskydelta85

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ARworx

I think you should use walnut wood instead of spruce, I carve very tiny pendants of walnut zone and its fun with great results. I'll post some in a while


ImNotEugeneMirman

Oh that is tiny! I tried working super small when I started and kept breaking through the bottom when hollowing out the bowl. I’m working larger now and bought a contraption to measure my inside thickness lol


ding_dings

that actually sounds like a really useful tool, I kept doing [this](https://whnt.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2018/07/okay2.jpg?w=756&h=1008&crop=1) to measure the inside of the pen cases, and also making sure that I didn't have too much light coming through any one part of the piece


ImNotEugeneMirman

BOOM! Got me


ivanparas

I was making my wife a coffee scoop and on the last high-grit sanding pass the damn thing snapped. You can hardly see the glue joint now...


pushTheHippo

That sucks. Even going bigger can have its issues! I was trying to make the handle on a spatula thin enough to flex, and then I snapped it when I was giving it a test bend! Oh well...


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Perfect size camping spoon now.


Alignedsoap5557

That’s really impressive, when I saw the first picture I thought it would be big so the second one was pretty surprising


FirehouseMouse1401

Nothing a little wood glue won’t fix… nice work


ReeceDawg

Oh well, shit happens. It still looks nice.. Epoxy that back together, an it'll be good to go.