Recent content by forginhill

Great little project....well done....

Nice! You captured him perfectly....

Lovely bowl! Those take a bit of work....very impressive....

Fun! You're a talented carver....

Lovely work! Going to be some happy recipients.....

Beautiful work! Makes competition for the knives themselves.....

Ha...Well, I've done it plenty with my little hand gouge while making spoons, but I look forward to some bigger flowers with this one.... :)

Thanks! Yes, the long handle is for really getting after it with both hands. We'll see if it can stand up to the heavy work since I exclusively carve dry wood....

This is a swan neck gouge I just made…first try, so no doubt there are some improvements that can be made, but it worked quite well on the first trial run with some dry desert willow….

Thanks.....I do like using the adze.....It's a little on the light side, so if I have lots of heavy wood removal I use the axe. But the adze works perfectly for finer work...

Used an old ball pein hammer to make an adze. And a little spoon from maple that I carved....Cheers from the desert....

Thanks so much for the kind feedback. Favorite knife is right, Muddypaws....and you're also right...until the next one... ha. Toddy...wombling as a life skill.... I love it... :) Greencloud....I knew it would be high carbon because it was a tool handle. But I did spark test it to be sure. I...

Nice work! Some cook will be happy....

Gorgeous! It'll be the envy of camp....

I enjoy picking up bits of steel along the side of the road to use for future projects. I recently found an old broken handle from a pair of pliers and decided to forge a carving knife....Carved a spoon with it and discovered my new favorite knife....