Spoon-carving tools
Recommending a straight knife is easy – The Mora 106 is an excellent balance of value for money with a good quality knife, and it’s used extensively throughout the world by woodcarvers. The carving axe is used for roughing out shapes.
A series of two-hour classes for you to get to grips with common household hand tools and power tools. The Warren founder Tim Boyd and special DIY guest teachers will teach you tonnes of tips and tricks so you can use your tools confidently and safely to achieve all your DIY goals. All tools and materials will be provided, and each class has a maximum of eight participants. Robin and Nicola Wood live in Derbyshire with their two children. Robin in a renowned pole lathe turner and Nicola has a PhD in Design.
I will suggest great cafes and coastal walks to try out at the end of the experience. Anyone know where I can pick up some soft wood for carving spoons/bowls out of?
The ultimate fireside occupation, this set of wood spoon carving knives include a hook knife and a whittling knife. The knives are sharpened carbon steel with oiled oak handles and finished with copper rings. Suitable for both hard and soft woods. The hook knife is used to hollow the concave areas of carving – especially the bowls of spoons.
There is also a correlation between price and functionality. Knives that have been cheaply mass-produced will seldom be as pleasant to use as a more expensive one produced by a small, artisan toolmaker. As such, Rekindle doesn’t recommend a particular hook knife but we suggest you do some reading and make a choice depending on your means and your level of interest. In Rekindle classes we use Hans Karlsson and Ben Orford knives (from Sweden and the UK respectively) which are closer to the artisan end of the spectrum. The straight knife is the woodcarving workhorse.
We have used these tools ourselves and believe in them. We hope these tools will be used for many years to come. See our page on tool care in order to get the most out of your spoon carving tools.
It removes as much wood as possible before knives are employed. It has a wide bevel of around 8-10mm that enables it to slice the surface of the wood like a knife. As such carving axes are kept very sharp like a knife – unlike axes for splitting kindling). Woodworking with machines includes a full workshop induction, therefore attendees of this class are able to later use the machines without enrolling in a separate induction class.
Lets continue with “if I know of any videos showing spoon-carving techniques”. Below is a link to a video from Robin showing us how to carve the bowl of a spoon using a hook-knife.
Wood Carving Tools & Bushcraft Knives
- Take the carving knife, and using your thumb again for leverage, start removing very small layers of wood.
- A four-week course which includes a full workshop induction.
- So you’re wondering about woodcarving and you want to create something useful?
- A good hook knife has a compound curve – a shallower radius toward the handle, becoming a tighter hook toward the knife tip.
- The hook knife is used to hollow the concave areas of carving – especially the bowls of spoons.
- Carving this way is a very accessible hobby.
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Wood Carving Hook Knife – Long Handle 12″. Spoon Carving Tool for Spoons, Bowls, kuksa and Cups carvings – Basic Crooked Knife by STAMESKY. Wood Carving Scorp – Round Tool for Bowl, Spoon, and Cup Carving. Hook Knife – Double Edged Knife for Professional Carvers by STAMESKY.
This hands-on class teaches you how to safely operate the essential machinery in a wood workshop. You’ll learn how to select wood, mill wood to square, and gain confidence on major woodworking machines, including the mitre saw, jointer, thickness planer, disc sander, and router. Down below are links for whittling knife which I use and am very happy with (i have tried more than 15 different whittling/carving knives) and basswood. Come along and learn how to make a spoon!
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We provide professional knowledge about the products we sell and build the trust and satisfaction from our customers. The Introduction to Carving course focuses on the basics of incised and low relief carving and the different types of tools used in carving, chisels, gouges and v–tool. Students will learn the necessary hand skills, how to sharpen tools and how to set up a good carving kit. Time to make this thing spoon shaped.
If you’re making a double-ended spoon, remember one end should be bigger than the other. Using a woodcarving knife, simply chip and peel the same way you would an apple. Using your thumb for leverage will help, and always point the knife away from yourself as you work.
Flexcut Tool Company in Erie, PA designs and manufactures high-quality wood carving tools, carving knives, gouges, and chisels for hand or power carving. As a Artist I have used many different mediums to express my wild creative flow.
We give advice on sharpening during our carving classes and look at these three tools specifically in our Sharpening class. There are many options for buying a hook knife.
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