Blade ID help please!

[plastic-ninja]

Hi all.
Going through my carving kit as I’m going to start again ( again!) with doing some spoons so thought I should give them all a quick strop & check over.
I’d forgotten all about this very tight curve blade I bought quite a while ago. I obviously don’t need it as I never bothered to put a handle on it. It will be for sale but I want to ID it first.
I think I bought it with a couple of bigger blades from Nic Westerman but Nic’s site is down so I can’t check. It’s very very sharp!
Does anyone else recognise it?

 

[Nice65]

It’s very very sharp!

So are your pics! What did you use to photograph them?

I can only say it ‘looks’ like Nic’s work, going by the forge finish and particularly the sharpness. As a man of taste with regards sharp things, I’d imagine it was chosen purposefully, ie: you went through “the process” and convinced yourself that only something of quality would do. And then didnt use it.

I’m familiar with this behaviour.

 

[plastic-ninja]

So are your pics! What did you use to photograph them?

I can only say it ‘looks’ like Nic’s work, going by the forge finish and particularly the sharpness. As a man of taste with regards sharp things, I’d imagine it was chosen purposefully, ie: you went through “the process” and convinced yourself that only something of quality would do. And then didnt use it.

I’m familiar with this behaviour.

Yes that is my usual MO.
Convinced myself that I needed one without any evidence.
Ah well, it will save someone else having to wait an age for one.
I have 3 others by Nic & love them but think I only ordered this one to complete the set.
Took the photos with iPhone 14Pro.

 

[SoldierPalmer]

Looks similar to a twca cam.

 

[Jared]

Looks like a Nic Westerman Micro Spoon Blade

 

[Nice65]

Took the photos with iPhone 14Pro.

Good to know. All my photos are taken with a 12 Mini, and I’m surprised how good they can look. I like a small phone and upgraded to a 13 Mini because I read the camera had been tweaked. It was absolutely rubbish by comparison and got sent back.

@SoldierPalmer, what’s a twca cam?

 

[plastic-ninja]

Good to know. All my photos are taken with a 12 Mini, and I’m surprised how good they can look. I like a small phone and upgraded to a 13 Mini because I read the camera had been tweaked. It was absolutely rubbish by comparison and got sent back.

@SoldierPalmer, what’s a twca cam?

TWCA cams are those really round symmetrical curve blades. Like almost a complete circle.

 

[SoldierPalmer]

TWCA cams are those really round symmetrical curve blades. Like almost a complete circle.

Not always. It’s basically a welsh carving tool for creating hollow shapes.

 

[Nice65]

I see, well I learned two things. One of which is nothing to do with cameras

 

[Stew]

Not always. It’s basically a welsh carving tool for creating hollow shapes.

I would argue that a spoon carving blade that isn’t a continuous curve of a circle, isn’t a twca cam. The main characteristic is that same shape no matter what part of the edge.