Every time I went to Woodcraft I'd notice that little spoon plane
Took me around an hour to get a decent edge on it. Most of that time was finding a stance and a methodology. I don't like honing curved blades, but I managed. It had one monster of a burr on it.
And I carved out a spoon bowl! Took me about ten minutes. It was actually fun. Like scrubs and members of that family, cutting across the grain, even at just a slight angle, works best. Going along the grain, with or against it, gave me chatter.
Pretty soon I had me a nice hefty cherry spoon. Total time for my very first spoon including unpackaging the plane, honing, staring at it, picking out a nice piece of scrap, cutting, carving, and sanding it to
320; under three hours. Finished it with walnut oil, waited 24 hours. SWMBO thinks it's beautiful. It looks nice, feels great.Okay. Not bad for 20 bucks. :-) I've found me an easily shippable Christmas/birthday present for a while, anyway. And we've got a nice neighbor who gave me several nice chunks of her crabapple tree when it blew down last summer. I think she'd like a spoon from that tree.