The Hook Knife is the tool we use to carve concave sections of our spoon, in this case the bowl although it can be used to hollow out other concave areas of the spoon. The Hook Knife curvature can be simple of compound, you can find them in different geometries. In the next video we …
The straight knife is the main tool for Spoon Carving. Once we have removed as much wood as possible using the axe, we move on to the straight knife. The straight knife is also knows as Sloyd (Slöjd) knife. This term means craft or handwork in Swedish and comes from a movement in the Scandinavian …
Once we have a branch or a log we can use the carving axe to split it, being guided by the direction of the grain of the wood. In the next video you can see different ways to do that: Depending on our skill with the axe we will be able to remove as much …
