Steve Tomlin Crafts

Improve Your Spoons Workbook
A practical guide to improving your skills and carving better spoons.

Over the last 20years, I have taught hundreds of people how to carve their first spoons on my in-person workshops. Increasingly, I’ve become aware that their is a need for some tuition for people wanting to take the next steps and progress their carving. This workbook is designed, through a series of practical exercises, to help you master your tools and develop your designs to make better spoons.This workbook has taken several years to create, including trialing the exercises with carvers during my workshops. I’m incredibly pleased with it and excited to make it available at last.

Buy the Workbook from my Etsy store:

The workbook includes
• 70 pages of instruction, including advice on principles of learning
• 22 exercises based on carving with an axe, straight knife and hook knife as well as creating spoon designs and refining their shapes.
• Colour photos throughout to show the techniques and principles along with providing design inspiration.
• 8 templates to use during the exercises

Contents
Introduction & principles
Improve your axe work
Improve your knife work
Improve your hollowing
Improve your symmetry
Improve your design
Templates