Very informational. Fits perfect into my new Green Wood Carvings Have been using a ground tip deer antler. Will dig out my Myrtle Beach rock collection now. Happy New Year
I use wet sanding for finishing and then just some linseed oil. You’d be amazing with the finished results after a little elbow grease with that technique as well🔥🤙 also great video pal 👏👏👏
Just remember if you are using "linseed oil" make sure you are using 100% edible flax oil only. Boiled linseed oil (which 99% of "linseed oil" are) contains heavy metals and is toxic and never meant for use on surfaces that will touch food!
Hey thank you for the video and great work :). Could you post links to videos you mentioned, about what you use to burnish and when to burnish? I search your channel and couldnt find it. Thank you
so interesting and great vid, thanks! not at point of making mine own wooden spoons, yet, but want to 'upgrade' my ikea ones and prolong their life for as long as possible. the finish isn't briliant, but a great solid beech spoon for the money. was thinking of sanding, but now, thinking burnishing would be best...or would it be better to sand and then burnish?
Great question! I have heard of people doing it both ways. I personally suggest burnishing before piling. If you were to burnish after oiling then you might end up pressing some of the oil out, or if it is a polymerizing oil then you would be working against it solidifying. There is no disadvantage when you burnish then oil.
i have a brand new bamboo spoon that feels smooth when rubbed in one direction and like a porcupine cactus in the other. Sanding would just make it worse so do I just find any random smooth stone and burnish it down? This is not a craft of mine, I just don't want it to give me a splinter on my hand or in my food.
Bamboo is a tricky one- I don’t know how effective burnishing would be at getting rid of that protruding grain. If you do burnish I would try burning in the direction of the grain (the same direction that it feels smooth) Any smooth stone, marble or even the back of a metal spoon could be worth trying to burnish with. You definitely want the burnisher to be really smooth- like glass surface smooth.
Good question! No- as long as the stone is strong enough so that it doesn’t fall apart and smooth enough so that it doesn’t scratch the item you are burnishing. It’s possible to use other items that meet those requirements, like a deer antler, possibly some glass or porcelain items, the backside of a metal spoon bowl, etc… Just make sure whatever you are trying to use to burnish, you can easily hold, effectively burnish with and be able to achieve a good technique.
I apply oil after burnishing. I think if you applied oil before burnishing it would be OK as long as you waited a few days for the oil to soak in. Some oils however will set and harden (polymerize with time) so burnishing after wouldn't help that much or do damage to the finish (I am guessing). On most of my spoons I have used a mineral oil/beeswax finish after burnishing. which does not polymerize so it wouldn't matter as much- I just feel like burnishing might "squeeze" oil out of the surface of the spoon.
Those spoons are beautiful!
Thanks!
Very informational. Fits perfect into my new Green Wood Carvings Have been using a ground tip deer antler. Will dig out my Myrtle Beach rock collection now. Happy New Year
Hey Dave! Thanks for the feedback, glad it was helpful! Good luck and happy carving!
I use wet sanding for finishing and then just some linseed oil. You’d be amazing with the finished results after a little elbow grease with that technique as well🔥🤙 also great video pal 👏👏👏
Thanks Joseph! Appreciate that!
Just remember if you are using "linseed oil" make sure you are using 100% edible flax oil only. Boiled linseed oil (which 99% of "linseed oil" are) contains heavy metals and is toxic and never meant for use on surfaces that will touch food!
Nice, thanks for sharing and take care.
Thanks, you too!
Nice work
Thanks!
Hey thank you for the video and great work :). Could you post links to videos you mentioned, about what you use to burnish and when to burnish? I search your channel and couldnt find it. Thank you
Thanks for watching! Glad you found the video helpful! Here is the link to the other video!
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so interesting and great vid, thanks! not at point of making mine own wooden spoons, yet, but want to 'upgrade' my ikea ones and prolong their life for as long as possible. the finish isn't briliant, but a great solid beech spoon for the money. was thinking of sanding, but now, thinking burnishing would be best...or would it be better to sand and then burnish?
Should we Burnish before or after staining or applying mineral oil? Luv ur spoons
Great question! I have heard of people doing it both ways. I personally suggest burnishing before piling.
If you were to burnish after oiling then you might end up pressing some of the oil out, or if it is a polymerizing oil then you would be working against it solidifying. There is no disadvantage when you burnish then oil.
What do you sand to before you start this process and does it help with the grain lifting back up
Great question! No sanding at all! Burnishing happens after knife finishing but before applying oil!
i have a brand new bamboo spoon that feels smooth when rubbed in one direction and like a porcupine cactus in the other. Sanding would just make it worse so do I just find any random smooth stone and burnish it down? This is not a craft of mine, I just don't want it to give me a splinter on my hand or in my food.
Bamboo is a tricky one- I don’t know how effective burnishing would be at getting rid of that protruding grain. If you do burnish I would try burning in the direction of the grain (the same direction that it feels smooth)
Any smooth stone, marble or even the back of a metal spoon could be worth trying to burnish with. You definitely want the burnisher to be really smooth- like glass surface smooth.
Does it matter what kind of stone ?
Good question! No- as long as the stone is strong enough so that it doesn’t fall apart and smooth enough so that it doesn’t scratch the item you are burnishing. It’s possible to use other items that meet those requirements, like a deer antler, possibly some glass or porcelain items, the backside of a metal spoon bowl, etc…
Just make sure whatever you are trying to use to burnish, you can easily hold, effectively burnish with and be able to achieve a good technique.
Is this after oiling?
I burnish before oiling!
Do you oil before or after burnishing?
Great question! Usually after!
Do you burnish after applying oil?
I apply oil after burnishing. I think if you applied oil before burnishing it would be OK as long as you waited a few days for the oil to soak in.
Some oils however will set and harden (polymerize with time) so burnishing after wouldn't help that much or do damage to the finish (I am guessing).
On most of my spoons I have used a mineral oil/beeswax finish after burnishing. which does not polymerize so it wouldn't matter as much- I just feel like burnishing might "squeeze" oil out of the surface of the spoon.
I will try to do it with Woodglut plans.
Good luck!
@@BradAllenWoodworkingCo Thank you. Woodglut plans are awesome!
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It’s just that simple!! :D