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Fab, I remember this fella from years ago. There's a series of four videos on YouTube featuring him explaining and demonstrating his craft:

I've been messing around with carving for a few years and can strongly recommend it as a break from the digital world. Other names to watch for on the YouTube: Paul Sellers, Ben Orford, and (especially) Anna Casserly.

Here's a big collection of carved things, spoons and otherwise: https://www.pinterest.com/kentbrew/carving/

It is a pretty great hobby, in that carving spoons is simple enough that my 8 year old son picked it up, but with enough depth to the skills that you can spend years mastering the details. And even the simple ones made by a beginner are functional in the kitchen.

Still around in 2017, it seems:

https://barnthespoon.com/

An article on carving spoons and not a single photo of such a spoon? That seems a bit thoughtless.

Am I weird because this sounds really appealing to me for some reason? Didn't do any wood work since sløjd in school :D

There is no spoon.

Carve your own spoon (2014)