Category Archives: spoon carving

Spoon carving course 2025

Posted on April 13, 2025 by stevetomlin

I’ve been teaching spoon carving workshops for over 20 years and love sharing my skills with beginners and improvers. Staring with a freshly cut birch log, you’ll first learn to use an axe safely and efficiently to carve the spoon … Continue reading →

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Improve Your Spoons Workbook

Posted on February 10, 2025 by stevetomlin

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 … Continue reading →

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Spoon carving workshop 2024

Posted on September 30, 2024 by stevetomlin

I’m just back from a brilliant time teaching a spoon carving beginners course for a lovely group. Starting with a greenwood log of fresh silver birch, the day covered all the skills to carve with axes and knives. They made … Continue reading →

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Spoon carving at Hassal Green 2024

Posted on July 16, 2024 by stevetomlin

I’ve just delivered an amazing two day spoon carving workshop at Hassal Green Nature Reserve in Staffordshire. I was really impressed how well they took to it all so on the second day we had a fantastic range of things … Continue reading →

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Spalted birch eating spoon with ball finial

Posted on June 30, 2024 by stevetomlin

In between teaching courses, I’ve been doing a little spoon carving with some gorgeous spalted silver birch. The patterning in the grain makes each spoon beautifully unique with natural decoration. On this teardrop shape eating spoon, I carved a ball … Continue reading →

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Fellsman mandatory spoon

Posted on April 25, 2024 by stevetomlin

This weekend I’ll be attempting to complete The Fellsman, a 61mile navigational event with 11000ft of climbing across the Yorkshire Dales. It’ll be the furthest I’ve ever run and I’m hoping to complete in 24hrs, meaning I’ll be spending a … Continue reading →

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Carving an eating spoon

Posted on April 22, 2024 by stevetomlin

While I was in Derbyshire the other week, I had some spare time to carve, using some beautiful, fresh cherry wood. After splitting the log and marking out a pattern, I carve using an axe to create the shape. As … Continue reading →

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Spoon carving course 2024

Posted on April 16, 2024 by stevetomlin

My first spoon carving course of 2024 was a lovely day working with a terrific group of beginners. Using fresh silver birch we learned to split billets and carve spoon blanks using axes. Then it was onto knife work, refining … Continue reading →

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Carving a spoon by axe

Posted on April 15, 2024 by stevetomlin

An axe is a fabulous tool to work with for carving green wood spoons. It can work quickly, efficiently and accurately to create a spoon blank for finishing with knife work. During my spoon carving courses, we spend time carving … Continue reading →

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Spoon carving workshop in Doncaster

Posted on March 9, 2024 by stevetomlin

Last autumn, I was asked to deliver a beginners spoon carving workshop for TCV in Doncaster. We’d hoped to be outside on one of the sites they manage but the weather meant we instead made use of their fantastic facility … Continue reading →

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