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Wood Carving | Motoko Smith | The Crafter's Box

Wood Carving Premium Workshop

Name: Wood Carving Premium Workshop
SKU: PREM202108
Price: 260.00 USD
Availability: OutOfStock

$260

Learn the art of wood carving with artist Mokoto Smith of Leo in the Woods. Bring a touch of rustic craftsmanship to your kitchen with a curated kit to carve four beautiful serveware pieces in walnut, bass or cherry wood.

Motoko guides our in-depth, premium digital workshop and pairs her expertise with a complete wood carving kit that includes all of the tools & materials you’ll need to learn this artisan craft. The wood blanks in this kit have been custom designed and prepped to start each student with Motoko’s custom carving patterns. Our carving tools come from Michihamono, a carving tool manufacturer based in Miki City in the Hyogo prefecture, also known as the home of blade making in Japan. They have cultivated their craft for generations and every blade has gone through a forging, grinding, sharpening, and polishing process. In short, this is the best wood carving kit for beginners.

This workshop includes:

Tools and materials to make a knife, coffee scoop, spatula, and kuksa
A detailed, digital workshop by Mokoto Smith
A recorded Maker Chat Q&A with the artist

The specialty tools and materials in our wood carving kit include:

18 mm carving U-gouge
Carving knife
6-inch bar clamp
Custom sandpaper packet featuring seven different grits
Carving gloves
20 ounces of walnut oil
Non-adhesive shelf grip liner
Four pattern cherry blanks for a knife, coffee scoop, large spatula, and kuksa wooden cup
Six printed custom wood carving patterns by Motoko Smith

Additional blanks can be purchased as add-ons below. For the adventurous, Motoko teaches in her workshop how to begin her utensils from a rectangular wood block rather than a wood pattern, we’re suppling the additional tool + pattern blocks below.

Due to the oversized nature of this box, it does not qualify for any free shipping promotions.

WARNING: Drilling, sawing, sanding or machining wood products can expose you to wood dust, a substance known to the State of California to cause cancer. Avoid inhaling wood dust or use a dust mask or other safeguards for personal protection. For more information go to www.P65Warnings.ca.gov/wood

We're sorry that this kit is sold out. We'd love to reach out to you from our wait list when it's available again:

Difficulty:: Beginner to Intermediate
Make Time:: A day plus
Kit Type:: Premium Workshop

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Wood Carving Tool Bundle

Amplify the precision of your wood carving technique with our optional tool bundle. A saw will help you remove larger pieces of wood from blocks, turning them into pattern blanks more quickly, and a flat wood stabilizer will help you carve a blank more easily. The groove in this stabilizer allows you to clamp a rounded shape (a piece of wood you’ve taken the flat edges off of) for easier carving.

The tools in this bundle include:

Flat wood stabilizer
Saw

Note: This listing is intended to accompany Motoko’s full workshop. Purchasing this add-on listing by itself will not allow access to Motoko's digital workshop video, or include all the materials sent in the full Wood Carving Premium Workshop.

To learn more about Motoko and our Wood Carving Premium Workshop, explore our Featured Maker Page.

Add for $28

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Pattern Cherry Casserole Spoon Blank

Expand your wood carving skills as you create a large casserole spoon, perfect for use as a serving piece at your next gathering. This rough-cut piece of cherry wood is perfectly sized to match Motoko's casserole spoon pattern (included in your kit).

The materials in this wood carving kit include:

One pattern cherry blank – cut to the rough shape of a casserole spoon
Printed casserole spoon pattern designed by Motoko Smith

Note: This listing is intended to accompany Motoko’s full workshop. Purchasing this kit by itself will not allow access to Motoko's digital class or include all the materials in our Wood Carving Premium Workshop.

Add for $18

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Pattern Walnut Serving Set Blanks

Expand your wood carving skills as you create a two-piece walnut serving set, perfect for your next gathering. This kit includes two rough-cut pieces of walnut, perfectly sized to match Motoko's serving set pattern (included in your kit).

The materials in this wood carving kit include:

Two pattern walnut blanks – cut to the rough shapes to make a serving set
Printed serving set pattern designed by Motoko Smith

Add for $34

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Wooden Bench Hook

Ready to carve more than one spoon (or expand to spatulas, serving utensils and more)? A bench hook is a helpful tool to save your wrists as you work. By offering resistance for your wooden templates, a custom bench hook holds your work in place as you carve.

Each double-sided bench hook is handmade in San Diego, Ca and comes with a custom The Crafter's Box logo. Each side fits a different wooden template size - a larger nook for bigger projects and a smaller nook for our original wooden spoon templates.

The materials included in this kit:

a double-sided handmade wooden spoon blank to fit a small or large wood template for carving projects.

We recommend this product for those that participated in Melanie Abrantes's full Carved Wooden Spoons Workshop.

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Wood Carving Pattern Blank Bundle
$40

This bundle includes three pattern blanks – cut to the rough shape for a knife, coffee scoop, and large spatula – in your choice of wood: Basswood, Cherry, Walnut. Plus, five printed patterns by Motoko Smith.

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Wood Carving Blank Bundle
$30

This bundle include three uniquely sized blocks - for creating a knife, coffee scoop, and spatula - in your choice of wood: Basswood, Cherry, Walnut. Plus, five patterns designed by Motoko Smith.

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Wood Carving Kuksa Blank Bundle
$50

This bundle includes one wood carving blank – cut to the rough shape of a kuksa cup – in your choice of wood: Basswood, Cherry, Walnut. Plus, a printed kuksa pattern designed by Motoko Smith.

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MOTOKO SMITH

WOOD CARVING

In this premium workshop we are exploring the art of wood carving, handcrafting artisan serveware that will become staples in our kitchen and home. Motoko Smith, of Leo in the Woods, inspires, educates and shares with us her thoughtful practice in design and woodworking. Following her techniques, we’ll create a knife, coffee scoop, large spatula, and kuksa out of a rich cherry wood. This rewarding and immersive workshop allows us to take a wooden blank and, with time and diligence in our craft, create custom home goods that we will enjoy for a lifetime.

Along with learning the fundamentals of woodworking and wood carving techniques, Motoko shares her expert tips derived from years of experience and countless hours of work. By the end of this workshop, Motoko will leave us feeling confident in our new skills, ready to experiment with future wood carving projects on our own.

About the Artist: Motoko Smith

Motoko Smith is a professional woodturner and artisan woodworker who sees unique potential in every wood grain, natural edge and spalted wood. She is a native of Japan who now calls Southern California home. Motoko found herself pursuing woodworking as a creative outlet as she simultaneously navigated maintaining a household with three little ones.

She found solace and fulfilling creative energy in the art of carving wood to handcraft stunning creations that are as practical as they are beautiful. Motoko approaches her design process by examining the source of the wood selected for each project. She enjoys the journey of understanding where the wood was sourced and then deciding on what is possible with the characteristics she observes.

We’re so excited to have you join us, Motoko.

Motoko Smith's
Podcast Interview

Share with us! We can’t wait to see all of the beautiful hand carved wooden serveware you create using Motoko Smith’s skills and techniques. We hope you enjoy this workshop and we’d love to see how you are inspired to create. Be sure to share with us by tagging @thecraftersbox, our featured artist @leointhewoods and use #thecraftersbox so all can follow along in your creative journey. Happy carving with this special workshop.