Kind of a fun thing to see on HN. If you enjoy this, you might also like frank howarth's videos on youtube. He puts in a ton of time to do stop motion animations of his projects coming to life.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/urbanTrash/videos" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/user/urbanTrash/videos</a>
If you are in to this sort of thing, my wife (who carves a pretty spoon herself) maintains a list of links to carvers, tool-makers, and the like at <a href="http://jarofwood.com/spoon-links/" rel="nofollow">http://jarofwood.com/spoon-links/</a>.
If you have (lots) of extra money to spend, then there's always Lee Valley Tools<p><a href="http://www.leevalley.com/en/home/OnlineCatalog.aspx?id=0a61ba28" rel="nofollow">http://www.leevalley.com/en/home/OnlineCatalog.aspx?id=0a61b...</a><p>(They do ship internationally and to the U.S.)
More fun with bowl carving with Roy Underhill. <a href="http://video.pbs.org/video/2365554475/" rel="nofollow">http://video.pbs.org/video/2365554475/</a>
Unexpected, but glad to see this as I also have some logs drying that I intend to carve into bowls. Thanks for the tips!<p>Also you can make your own tools from scrap tool steel. I made a hand adze from a broken horse hoof rasp when I was a kid. Encourage your kids to hack stuff and make their own tools.
I really appreciate the work of Peter Follansbee, who makes reproductions of 17th-century oak furniture, spoons and bowls with hand woodworking tools <a href="https://pfollansbee.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">https://pfollansbee.wordpress.com/</a>
This is really cool! Another fun way is to use a lathe (I guess that would be called "turning" a bowl rather than "carving" a bowl). Using a lathe would be much faster and wood lathes are relatively inexpensive.
That's so retro. I'd use a ShopBot CNC router, with a 1/2" carbide end mill for the roughing, then a 1/8" ball cutter for finishing. Then sand and polish.
that's awesome, I was playing with trying to carve a bowl, thought I might be using the wrong tools, found that, looked good, great references thanks guys