Sydney

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Craft

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Woodworking

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Sustainability

Spoon Carving Course for Beginners

Learn how to carve a spoon at these unique Sydney workshops!

Luke Mitchell

Sydney Community College

4.8 (82)

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2 x 5 hours

1 to 20 $269

What you'll do

If you're fully COVID-19 vaccinated, you can attend this class anytime
If you're not fully COVID-19 vaccinated, you can attend from 1st Dec onwards

Relax into the satisfying art of spoon carving at this mindful Sydney course with woodworker Luke Mitchell! Spoon carving is a meditative practice that provides a break from the busy, screen-focused lives many of us lead.

In this spoon carving course, you'll learn how to carve a wooden spoon from locally sourced green timber.

You'll be taught how to correctly use green woodworking tools, including a froe and maul to split the initial logs into more manageable pieces, a hatchet and hatchet block to do the rough shaping of your spoon, a hook knife to carve the bowl of the spoon and a sloyd knife for the fine shaping.

Course outline:

Carving a wooden spoon from locally sourced green timber
Using a froe and maul to split logs
Using a hatchet and hatchet block to shape their spoon
Using a hook knife to carve the bowl of the spoon
Using a sloyd knife for the fine shaping
Best practices for using timber as a material
Using sustainable practices to choose sections of a tree that may otherwise be mulched

Enjoy carving a variety of different spoons using an easy to follow step-by-step guide. Gain a more intimate understanding of timber as a material, how to work with it and how to best take advantage of its natural properties to reduce wastage.

Join us in this creative and therapeutic spoon carving course and leave with your own beautiful creations!

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Knowledge required

Beginner-friendly. This spoon carving course is for anyone looking for a new hobby who wants to explore a unique wood carving process, connect with their hands, and develop a new skill.

What you'll get

One or two completed spoons to take home
Leather aprons for all participants
Chopping blocks for the hatchet work
Hatchets
Hook knives
Sloyd (carving) knives
Handsaws
Froes
Mauls/mallets
Green timber logs

What to bring

Please wear closed-in shoes and full-length pants.

Session repeats

This class series runs over 2 consecutive sessions, which are 1 week apart.

Suitable for

This class is great for individuals and couples as well as for a birthday, hens party, team building activity, bucks party or Christmas party.

This would also be a nice gift for her, gift for mum, anniversary gift or Xmas gift.

Luke Mitchell (your teacher) adheres to COVID-19 government guidelines.

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Location

2A Gordon St, Rozelle (varies by date; click the date selector to see details)

Your teacher

Luke Mitchell

Luke has been a woodworker for more than a decade. He is passionate about using second hand, reclaimed and recycled materials and tools to lessen his impact on the environment. He has taught many woodworking courses through The Bower, works in furniture conservation and is a guest presenter on ABC TV’s Gardening Australia’s ‘Mr Fix It’ segment.

Your host

Sydney Community College

4.8 (82)

5k+ likes

Sydney Community College is a social enterprise with a mission to offer innovative continuing adult education programmes that support individual efforts and facilitate sustainable social change.

Our mission is to enrich lives, to strengthen adult individuals and to build communities through innovative high quality continuing education and training.

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More about this class

This class is new, and this teacher has 82 reviews for their other experiences - which you can see here.

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$269 per guest

4.8 (82)

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