Free spoon carving template generator – prints on A4 or Letter.
Eating spoon carving template
A classic eating spoon for soup, cereal and yoghurt. The bowl is an elongated egg shape that's widest towards the tip, so it slides easily into your mouth, and a gentle crank with a slight S-curve in the handle brings it up to meet you.
The “Everyday Eater” template on A4, at full size: top view, side view, grain direction and a scale check to measure after printing.
Open it in the designer to change the size or shape, switch to inches or US Letter, and print it or save it as a PDF. The downloaded SVG opens again in the designer with Open.
Measurements
Total length
190 mm (7.5 in)
Bowl length × width
62 × 42 mm (2.4 × 1.7 in)
Bowl depth
14 mm (0.6 in)
Bowl capacity
≈ 6.4 ml (1.3 tsp)
Neck width
9 mm (0.4 in)
Handle width × thickness
16 × 9 mm (0.6 × 0.4 in)
Crank
12° up, S-curved handle
Minimum blank (L × W × T)
196 × 48 × 31.5 mm (7.7 × 1.9 × 1.2 in), including a 3 mm saw margin
It fits at full size on both A4 and US Letter. Print at 100% scale with no margins, then check the scale bar on the sheet with a ruler.
Carving tips
This is the spoon most carvers make first and then keep making. It's long enough to hold comfortably but small enough to carve from a short branch. Try it in birch, cherry or maple, and thin the bowl walls towards the rim so it feels light in the hand.
Cut out the top view and trace it on the blank with the grain running along the spoon, as the grain arrow shows. Saw the outline, then draw the side view on the side of the blank for the depth and crank, and carve away everything outside the lines. Read more in How it works.
