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    Wooden Penguin

    Great little project....well done....
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    What a Gaul !

    Nice! You captured him perfectly....
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    Bowl

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

    Fun! You're a talented carver....
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    Spoons for Christmas Chutney!

    Lovely work! Going to be some happy recipients.....
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    Some sheaths and scabbards

    Beautiful work! Makes competition for the knives themselves.....
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    attempt at a bowl gouge

    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.... :)
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    attempt at a bowl gouge

    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....
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    attempt at a bowl gouge

    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….
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    more recycling and a spoon

    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...
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    more recycling and a spoon

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

    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...
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    Cherry Cookers

    Nice work! Some cook will be happy....
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    Fire Wood Kuksa

    Gorgeous! It'll be the envy of camp....
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    some womble forging

    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....