caddy spoon

[theresa]

New Year's resolution - I will definitely be making a spoon. Have been thinking about it for ages now and feel suitably inspired to make a start. One question tho' - what would be an ideal thickness for the bowl? I thought of starting with 1mm because I am going to hammer it and want the marks to remain. Can't wait....

[Dennis]

Obviously one approach is to form the bowl and the handle separately and then solder them together. This makes it more predictable for first time effort.

When I was set a spoon forging project, which requires a stake and a raising hammer, I soon ran out of metal. the result was just two small measuring spoons, wich are still in the kitchen drawer.

I would experiment with copper first, but depending on the spoon you are aiming for, I would use one of the heavier rectangular wires, something like 7.0x2.5 or more. Dennis.

[CJ57]

I think I use 1.2 for the bowl and I've used both round and square wires for the stems. I preferred the square. I did make a caddy spoon bowl possibly 1.5 because I wanted it to be substantial and then I ended up cutting it in half and making a pendant!
Anyway you know what my spoons look like Theresa, I'll take a measurement but I may have polished away quite a lot of firestain on the last lot:/

You'll enjoy it. The first 4 were so easy I wondered why I'd never made them and then the next 4 just seemed so problematic I couldn't even seem to remember how I made the first ones!

[theresa]

Thank you Caroline and Dennis. I intend to cut the bowl and handle as one out of sheet and then form it, I will keep you posted of my efforts! It's going to be a caddy spoon with or without cabochons - haven't decided yet. I like to make things on the hoof and see where serendipity takes me.

[CJ57]

Good to hear you are doing it the traditional way which won't be wasteful for a caddy spoon but impossible for my long handled ones. Look forward to seeing it the finished spoon Theresa