It’s useful practice to try and copy other spoons directly.
This first one is copied from a Norwegian sugar spoon, probably in birch. My roughed out blank, also birch, is at the back.
And this is the final version.
Then I tried to copy a coffee scoop given to me as a present. I’ve slightly lengthened the handle (easier to dip into coffee pots and packets), and the profile curve isn’t quite as steep. I don’t know what the wood of the original is; mine is in sweet chestnut, from a pruning from my communal garden. It still needs finishing and oiling, but I like the radial pattern of the grain in the fish tail of the handle, combined with the hour glass in the bowl.
