Turning spoons with an offset or staggered mount?

[Aaron Buys]

The tutorial on turning spoons over at Woodturning Online by Bill Johnson shows mounting the blank offcenter so a full spoon bowl and handle can be created. Between the pictures and the description it seems he mounts both ends slightly off the center of the piece...has anybody here used this method before? Wouldn't this make for a very unstable blank?

http://www.woodturningonline.com/assets/turning_articles/spoon/spoon.html

[Paul Zerjay]

Whats a left handed spoon?

[Raymond Overman]

Whats a left handed spoon?

That's when she's asleep on the left side of the bed and facing away from you...:eek:

Funny this would be posted. I turned my first spoon tonight.

Red oak
15" Long

[Aaron Buys]

Funny this would be posted. I turned my first spoon tonight.

Red oak
15" Long


Great looking spoon! Did you turn this from a raw block of wood or did you trim it to shape first?

[Raymond Overman]

Great looking spoon! Did you turn this from a raw block of wood or did you trim it to shape first?

I roughed (very rough) the pattern in on the bandsaw from a piece of 3/4 red oak then turned it so I got the profile I wanted in the cupped end.