Woodworking Hook Knife

Hook knife for wood carving.

Woodworking hook knife. Carving gouges also can be called a wood carving hook knife are the carving tools that have a curved blade. The handle is 10 long for two hands. The higher the measurement is the more open the hook knife is. The hook on this bowl and spoon carving crooked knife has the double bevel on the bottom side.

For more information visit our crooked and hook knife page. One can argue that the pocket knife gave rise to the popularity of whittling by its own rise to popularity. 3pcs spoon wood carving whittling hook knife cutter diy craft hand tools 155mm. Wonderful mix for wood crafting enthusiast that will certainly meet the demands of beginners as.

Custom made cariboo blades aki kai and scott make your hook knives custom to order. Includes high quality hook knife sloyd blade to carve spoons bowls mugs or kuskas of different sizes. Here you can find sloyd knives and chip carving knives and spoon carving knives and skew knives and bench knives and striking marking knives etc. Opinions vary enormously as to which is the best spoon carving knife if you search the web you will find lots of folk vehemently arguing that this or that knife is the best most folk however only own one or two knives so don t have much to compare to.

Check the range of wood carving tools and spoon carving whittling tools and green woodworking tools. Get it as soon as sat may 2. Robin wood demonstrates how to sharpen his open curve spoon carving knife. I have posted before about the best axe and straight knife for carving and the third tool that is needed is the spoon knife or hook knife.

These knives are available here http www robin wood co uk shop spoon knife right. We hand forge the hook blade to the the width of the handles. Knives can be divided by their type into general carving knives and detail knives. Wood carving hook knife and sloyd knife.

A detail knife is obviously going to be shorter and finer than a basic whittling knife because it is used to fit into shallow or deep crevices to bring detail duh to your wooden piece. Elemental tools wood spoon carving knife. If you want to make these types of wood carvings you will really achieve the best results with a hook knife to make the smooth hollowed out edges. Detail knives are smaller than the general carving knives as they serve a purpose of cutting out smaller parts of wood.

Hook knife wood carving tool for spoon kuksa cup and bowl carving 65mn steel spoon carving knife great curved knife for beginners or professional. Spoon carving knife diy wood craft woodcarving hook woodworker carpenter gifts. Beavers are good at making woodcarving tools. Now for the internal radius it is a very similar concept.

Note that hook knives are made in left and right handed versions.