Hook knife ?
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Personally I like my Dave Budd hook knives
You can also get very good knives from Ben Orford, FYGT of this parish both of whom supply direct.
You can also get S. Djarv Hantverk spoon knives from various suppliers.
You can also get very good knives from Ben Orford, FYGT of this parish both of whom supply direct.
You can also get S. Djarv Hantverk spoon knives from various suppliers.
Dave Budd, Svante Djarv,
Hans Karlsson, or Nic Westermann are all good, most offer a range and work slightly differently to each other.
Hans Karlsson, or Nic Westermann are all good, most offer a range and work slightly differently to each other.
+1 one for Ben Orford, Nic Westerman and Dave Budd. These are the only ones I have personal experience with and all are very good.
I have used the mora spoon knives as a cheaper alternative but never got on with them personally.
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I have used the mora spoon knives as a cheaper alternative but never got on with them personally.
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Or you could try Robin Wood hook knives. A variety available for left and right handers. I have a right hand compound curve version.
The crooked knives of the Pacific Northwest are very versatile for carving much more than just spoons. The blades are surface-hafted for shallow work.
Take a look at the "Haida-style" blades in the Lee Valley catalog, made by Crescent knife works in Vancouver BC. The rough-out blade is thicker steel and carves as nicely as any of the others. I have all of them.
Next, find that size and shape at Kestrel Tool, they make many blades with many sweeps. In the Kestrel website, you can get an idea of handle size and the great variety of sweeps available.
The advantage here is that you can buy just the blade and haft that in a handle which is the right size for your hands. Not something dreamt up by the blade smith.
Over the course of a day, handle size makes quite a difference to fatigue. Cariboo is expensive and North Bay Forge won't sell blades alone.
Last but not least, you can bash the blades out of farrier's hoof knives and haft them like a PacNW blade. I have about a dozen of those (Mora, Hall, Diamond & Ukal.)
With the bevels revised to 12 degrees, even in their original handles, very nice to carve with.
Take a look at the "Haida-style" blades in the Lee Valley catalog, made by Crescent knife works in Vancouver BC. The rough-out blade is thicker steel and carves as nicely as any of the others. I have all of them.
Next, find that size and shape at Kestrel Tool, they make many blades with many sweeps. In the Kestrel website, you can get an idea of handle size and the great variety of sweeps available.
The advantage here is that you can buy just the blade and haft that in a handle which is the right size for your hands. Not something dreamt up by the blade smith.
Over the course of a day, handle size makes quite a difference to fatigue. Cariboo is expensive and North Bay Forge won't sell blades alone.
Last but not least, you can bash the blades out of farrier's hoof knives and haft them like a PacNW blade. I have about a dozen of those (Mora, Hall, Diamond & Ukal.)
With the bevels revised to 12 degrees, even in their original handles, very nice to carve with.
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