From another post about how to forge a fork and spoon, I meant to do a little pictorial on how I do a spoon. Well I was forging and barely remembered to get enough pictures. But here are some. This spoon I gave a generic "stair?" Twist. With how it was I instantly regretted it but finished it out how I started lol.
I started by upsetting the end of 3/8" square bar. Then made a sharper but shallow taper on two sides about how one makes a leaf but I kept it to around a 1/4" length on the taper. Also not too sharp.
After that I followed along with the leaf process and hammered under the upset area around about 1 3/8" from the tip and with half on half off hammer blows I isolated the upset part and thinned the spoon bowl portion. Again on two sides, like some make a leaf. Now the pictures begin.
the next part is flattening out the spoon portion. Atleast in the process I used This time. Other times I have formed the handle first. That may actually be easier. So either or. I'm still learning what I'm doing but sharing some ideas of what worked for me.
After that I started dishing on the stake I made shown earlier in the post with a wood mallet. Well, I needed more dish so with a ball peon I dishes more on a stump then went back to plainishing it a bit on the stake with a smooth face hammer. I did hot file a little to improve the shape but not a lot.
After cutting the stock and doing the handle I continued plainishing and shaping the spoon cooler on the anvil with the ball end of the ball pein and on the stake with the regular end of the smoother face of the ball pein.
Is that white smithing? I did a lot of plainishing. It was a fun experiment of something I hadn't done as much before.
Final pictures show the spoon, stake, and ball pein I used. I dig it. Of course the pictures are Mixed up and I'm no computer guru