Hey Souk,
Don't you just love it when someone trys to tell folks like you and I that we are incapable of some mechanical task. From homebuilt airplanes to homebuilt violins, to custom bike builds, to restoring Porsches, to rebuilding 911 engines, to DIY alignments, to converting R12 to 134, to tinkering with guns and etc etc. It is always fun to prove the skeptics wrong. Nothing better to me than the satisfaction of starting a new hobby and after careful research, being able to produce professional results in my home shop.
Nothing motivates me more than having someone who spends a fortune on "custom" work tell me I am not capable of doing the same quality of work out of my home shop.
Can't wait to see your finished spoon.... I am 100% sure it will be first rate. What OddJob fails to comprehend is that while there are all kind of levels of mechanical competance out there. To make blanket statements about all who choose to do their own work is ridiculous. If all gifted tinkerers quit tinkering, advances in technology would cease to exist.