Spoon Carving Kit

As a maker of spoon carving tools I occasionally get the urge to carve a spoon. I’m not too proud of any that I have made to date but have enjoyed tapping into the reminiscences of my younger self and picking up a slightly sharper knife than my original Swiss Army knife from over 3 decades ago. As a kid I enjoyed carving and did quite a bit, including learning how to carve interlocking wooden chains from an elderly man in my hometown in the mountains of Idaho.
So fast forward to this past spring, I’m the dad of five kids. We were on a family trip back up to Pennsylvania to visit relatives. My wife wanted to spend an afternoon with her aunt who has a kid about our children’s age. So the kids are running around having fun, my wife was in her element chatting with her aunt, and I’m there bored. You might relate to the feeling, and not being one to just sit and do nothing, I saw a pile of some type of olive wood branches, selected a nice one and began to carve. But I was missing a tool or two, and was struggling to use what I had to create the spoon that was in my mind. The finished spoon resembled more of what that younger self would have carved than what I know I was capable of making.
Not to let a good disaster go to waste I came up with the idea of a carving kit that I would like to have for these situations. It would include our Sloyd knife, hook knife, a push/pull shave and a small bow saw. When we got back home I proceeded to make a bow saw for my kit and was quite pleased with the way it turned out. I sewed up a leather tube with a lid, and now have a kit that I bring with me on trips for that moment of boredom. Not that I am blessed with those moments too often, remember I said something about being the dad to 5 kids (they are currently all under the age of 10) but when that moment arises, I’m armed and ready.