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Thanks for those suggestions. The Dave Budd website seems to have many things I can't find elsewhere, including stock knives, at very reasonable prices. The other two have some good looking stuff but its all marked "sold out"; and much of it is very expensive compared to their peers...

Thanks for the replies. The Barn video in which he bends Mora knives is one of the dozens of vids on his spoon club members-only website. Unfortunately there's no record of which vids one has watched so I can't identify, with a quick look, that in which he recommends bending not just one but...

Anyone want to answer my question rather than suggest something else? :) Meanwhile, does anyone know if there's a UK retailer selling a stock knife? I can only find such an implement for sale from foreign parts, which means all of the bureaucracy and additional costs involved when buying and...

Spoon carving is my current obsession, with many vids watched and books read. One vid source is Barn the Spoon, who has a vid showing how he bends a longer-bladed Mora carving knife into a shallow curve to better finish spoon bowls to a very smooth finish with knives alone (no sanding or...

On another note - anyone used diamond paste on a rotating disc of wood, leather or MDF to get a scary sharp edge on their knives? I have some of this paste for making cabinetmaking paring chisels with a 20 degree cutting edge very sharp indeed. Do knives benefit from "sharp as you can get them"...

Hello both, Thanks for the advice - I have both those knife types so I had a go this afternoon. They are usable, as you say, although the blades and points are very thin so produce kolrosing lines that are very delicate looking. That's quite good for some designs but I've seen various...

Hello all - thanks for the welcome. Perhaps as you'd expect, I'm mostly interested just now in some of the bushcraft technology used to shape wood; and in the (green) wood itself. I have lots of experience and knowledge with cabinetmaking hand tools but none with knives and only a little (from...

I'm a long time woodworker of the cabinetmaking kind - with some past experience in green woodworking making ladderback chairs, swills, hurdles and stools - new to carving spoons but with a hope to expand this into general carving over time. I've been at the spoons for about 6 weeks. I'm...