best knives and axes for woodcarving.

[robin wood]

I get asked very regularly what are the best knives and axes for woodcarving so have put together a bunch of info in blog posts.

These discuss the pros and cons of the various axe's on the market from the Gransfors small forest axe, carving axe or wildlife hatchet to cheap and cheerful axes from Argos and Bahco and old kent pattern axes etc.

http://greenwood-carving.blogspot.com/2010/07/which-is-best-axe-for-carving-bushcraft.html
Woodcarving knives have different requirements to general purpose knives and my personal taste is to have a general purpose knife that can take most of the abuse and a razor sharp knife that is kept purely for woodcarving. Whatever you use it is interesting to look at what makes the perfect woodcarving knife as opposed to a general purpose knife.
http://greenwood-carving.blogspot.com/2010/11/what-is-best-knife-for-woodcarving-and.html

Finally a discussion about what makes the best whittling knife for a child.
http://greenwood-carving.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-is-best-whittling-knife-for-child.html
And to make the point that tools are no where near as important as technique a picture of master carver Wille Sundqvist teaching my kids how to use a knife to carve Darlana horses.

 

[Mesquite]

Nice bit of info there Robin.

Not sure if it's my pc or a glitch with your site but a lot of the pics in the last article aren't showing up for me.

 

[ex-member Raikey]

Cheers Robin,..

gonna have a proper sit down with this later,..

 

[robin wood]

Nice bit of info there Robin.

Not sure if it's my pc or a glitch with your site but a lot of the pics in the last article aren't showing up for me.

Thanks for that hopefully sorted now.

 

[BarryG]

Nice one Robin. Thats helped me make a more informed descision.

 

[Zingmo]

Excellent articles thanks Robin.

Z

 

[MSkiba]

Phew, Im glad I picked the right axe before reading your blog!

Some good information on there, much appreciated!

 

[robin wood]

Phew, Im glad I picked the right axe before reading your blog!

Some good information on there, much appreciated!

Not sure there is a right and wrong axe, just different tools for different uses. And more important than the tool is technique, some of the best woodworkers I have seen have used very cheap simple tools.