How To Carve With A Hook Knife
He also teaches how to attain a super sharp cutting edge.
How to carve with a hook knife. Ensure the knife is held securely in your fingers and your thumb is free. For 33 and a couple of materials you can make a hook knife to carve spoons cups or bowlsGuts and Bourbon by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative C. BeaverCraft has its own line-up of hook knives and carving tools.
Birch is normally used for eating spoons To learn more about carving with a hook knife watch this folksy how-to. To carve my first bowl I used a sycamore burl I had been saving for a while. The large whittling knife will help you to carve out the form of the object spoon.
It does however suffer from a poor handle design. One little bite at a time. As you now know this will allow you to scoop deeper into the wood.
Sycamore is on the harder side for hand carving but it resists cracks and this piece had softened a bit as it aged. Jon runs tailor made courses both here in Devon and occasionally in Scotland for anyone interested in spoon carving and woodcraft skills. In this video tutorial a pair of disembodied hands will demonstrate step by step a method for efficiently carving out the bowl of a spoon with a hook knife.
And thats how you carve with a hook knife. In this video i show you how to carve in wood Im carving a spoon using an axe a knife and a spoon knife. When it comes to using a hook knife there are some techniques you can keep in mind and experiment with.
The chipping knife allows you to refine the piece further while your hook knife hollows out the wood. One of these is the SK2 which features a flat-tipped blade. Said hands use a blank of basswood for expediency.