How To Carve With A Hook Knife
Essential Techniques To Know When Using a Hook Knife.
How to carve with a hook knife. Please SHARE and LIKE. In this video i show you how to carve in wood Im carving a spoon using an axe a knife and a spoon knife. Sycamore is on the harder side for hand carving but it resists cracks and this piece had softened a bit as it aged.
Ensure the knife is held securely in your fingers and your thumb is free. And thats how you carve with a hook knife. He also teaches how to attain a super sharp cutting edge.
Birch is normally used for eating spoons To learn more about carving with a hook knife watch this folksy how-to. One little bite at a time. BeaverCraft has its own line-up of hook knives and carving tools.
The chipping knife allows you to refine the piece further while your hook knife hollows out the wood. This ensures that you got. 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.
Jon runs tailor made courses both here in Devon and occasionally in Scotland for anyone interested in spoon carving and woodcraft skills. 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.
Said hands use a blank of basswood for expediency. This way you can always use your dominant hand when carving. Hold the knife in your dominant hand.