The first rule of woodturning...

handle. If you follow your idea there will not be enough wood in the handle to hold the goblet whill hollowing out. turn out the goblet cup the use a styrofoam ball to put between tailstock and cup and the turn the hanlle part. Walter

Yea, I got a little hand scollsaw... I could use that.

Oak is cheaper than Maple or Ash here... In fact, I can only find small pieces of maple and ash... like 1x6s and stuff. I can get 6x6 chunks of oak all over. In fact, there are oak tress all over my backyard if I wanna get out the chainsaw. But, for an ice-cream scoop, I'll just get one of the

Maybe I'll get a new blade... I'll look into it.

There's a mistake. Women never forget. She'll say "Nice bowls. Where's the scoop I asked for?"

This sounds like a case of letting the little head do the thinking for the big head.

I d>I think we can all agree that the first rule of woodturning is that you

I've watched this run through a lot of ideas, but as a spoon carver, I would just make a scoop with shave, gouge and scorp, paying special attention to the orientation of the long grain, because ice cream scoops do some real prying. That's the thing that would worry me most about such an item.

That, and why anyone would want a wooden scoop when warm metal is so demonstrably superior.

In my case, the heads are about the same size.

I'll let you figure out what that means... ;-)