Wood carving knives

Great looking assortment of shapes—all look like they’d do a very nice job.

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Nice Looking knives

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They look great.

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They look wonderful.
So many beautiful shapes there.
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Mads

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Wow you have been very very busy… I like the various blade shapes. Sweeeet !!!!

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May I ask what you used for blades?

Planeman

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I’ve made many of projects, but never any carvings. Your display of knives makes me wanna give it a go.

Planeman: I use L-6 for most of the small blades. For the larger ones I use O-1.

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That’s a great collection of knives that you have made their. I’ve only made a couple of knives and would love to get more into it. It’s just real hard to find the time to do all you want to do.

helluvawreck aka Charles
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Way back when I was still gunsmithing, I made a set of carving tools for working on stock and inletting stocks, stuff like that. I made the handles from dowels, blades came from worn out hack saw blades, and mounted the blades using acroglass bedding compound. I still have, and use several of them in several shapes, some for grooving, some for plain carving and so forth, I used to just knock one out for a project I was working on and needed to have a blade just right to carve out a groove. Those do look great though, perhaps you can sell some on Ebay, that’s where I get stuff for my other hobby, building, and rebuilding computers, and now days working on laptops, as most folk don’t war to dig into a laptop because of the problem of getting to the motherboard, or even hard drive on a lot of models.

Would you consider selling me any or making me a set?!?

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Hey, TinyBoWLs, They are all for sale. Just drop me a e-mail and we can talk about them.
Richard

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Zwwizard, I bought those blades you recommended and made me a set of six carving knives using Cocobolo for the handles. I polished the blades to a mirror finish and sharpened them until they are razor sharp. I’m now working on a series of figure carvings. I also made a full set of carving gouges, a total of 62, of which 31 are socket type gouges and the other 31 are tang type. The socket gouges are finished (used Purpleheart for the handles). The smaller tang type gouges have the blades finished, polished and sharpened, but I still need to make the handles. Its fun to use tools you have made!

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