Wooden Spoon Carving
What will we do in the course?
A course by Andrea Cortés , Carpenter and craftswoman
Joined September 2019
Joined September 2019
About the video: What will we do in the course?
Overview
“In this lesson I will explain what manual carving consists of and present the project that we will carry out throughout this course.”
In this video lesson Andrea Cortés addresses the topic: What will we do in the course?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Wooden Spoon Carving. Learn the techniques and basic tools for spoon carving.
Partial transcription of the video
“WHAT WILL WE DO IN THE COURSE? In this course, you'll learn to carve a spoon from a raw piece of wood using only manual tools. This is different from artistic carving, the type used in furniture, religious boards, in architecture. That type of carving is made by the use of a hammer and mallet. Spoon carving is made with a process that's also called whittling, in Spanish it has the same name. Whittling is done using a small piece of wood that we can hold in our hands while we use the tools. It became very popular in the US because soldiers did that during the Civil War when they were waiting...”
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Course summary for: Wooden Spoon Carving
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Category
Craft -
Areas
Arts & Crafts, DIY, Product Design, Woodworking
Andrea Cortés
A course by Andrea Cortés
Andrea Cortés is an architect by training but, above all, a carpenter and woodworker. She is the founder of Barcelona Wood Workshops, a project in which, in addition to producing furniture and objects, she offers courses and activities to learn how to work with wood.
The aim of this project is to rescue a trade that is being lost in a world that promotes unbridled consumption and in which craftsmanship and objects made to last are no longer valued. In just two years, they have held more than 50 workshops with over 300 participants.
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