Wood carving tools overview

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Post by wiherek » Tue, Nov 10, 2015, 1:01 PM UTC

Wood carving tools overview
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Re: Wood carving tools overview

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Post by k2enemy » Wed, Nov 11, 2015, 5:30 PM UTC

Kind of a fun thing to see on HN. If you enjoy this, you might also like frank howarth's videos on youtube. He puts in a ton of time to do stop motion animations of his projects coming to life.

https://www.youtube.com/user/urbanTrash/videos

Re: Wood carving tools overview

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Post by Isamu » Wed, Nov 11, 2015, 5:35 PM UTC

Unexpected, but glad to see this as I also have some logs drying that I intend to carve into bowls. Thanks for the tips!

Also you can make your own tools from scrap tool steel. I made a hand adze from a broken horse hoof rasp when I was a kid. Encourage your kids to hack stuff and make their own tools.

Re: Wood carving tools overview

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Post by matthoiland » Wed, Nov 11, 2015, 5:36 PM UTC

More fun with bowl carving with Roy Underhill. http://video.pbs.org/video/2365554475/

Re: Wood carving tools overview

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Post by dahjelle » Wed, Nov 11, 2015, 5:57 PM UTC

If you are in to this sort of thing, my wife (who carves a pretty spoon herself) maintains a list of links to carvers, tool-makers, and the like at http://jarofwood.com/spoon-links/.

Re: Wood carving tools overview

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Post by weaksauce » Wed, Nov 11, 2015, 6:18 PM UTC

k2enemy wrote: post #2

Kind of a fun thing to see on HN. If you enjoy this, you might also like frank howarth's videos on youtube. He puts in a ton of time to do stop motion animations of his projects coming to life. https://www.youtube.com/user/urbanTrash/videos

It always delights me when an email shows up saying that frank howereth uploaded a new video to YouTube... I know what the next 15 minutes are going to be used for. Can't recommend him more.

Re: Wood carving tools overview

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Post by ChoGGi » Wed, Nov 11, 2015, 6:45 PM UTC

If you have (lots) of extra money to spend, then there's always Lee Valley Tools

http://www.leevalley.com/en/home/OnlineCatalog.aspx?id=0a61b...

(They do ship internationally and to the U.S.)

Re: Wood carving tools overview

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Post by n00b101 » Wed, Nov 11, 2015, 7:10 PM UTC

This is really cool! Another fun way is to use a lathe (I guess that would be called "turning" a bowl rather than "carving" a bowl). Using a lathe would be much faster and wood lathes are relatively inexpensive.

Re: Wood carving tools overview

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Post by digitalsushi » Wed, Nov 11, 2015, 7:28 PM UTC

weaksauce wrote: post #6

k2enemy wrote: post #2

Kind of a fun thing to see on HN. If you enjoy this, you might also like frank howarth's videos on youtube. He puts in a ton of time to do stop motion animations of his projects coming to life. https://www.youtube.com/user/urbanTrash/videos

It always delights me when an email shows up saying that frank howereth uploaded a new video to YouTube... I know what the next 15 minutes are going to be used for. Can't recommend him more.

And the other 50% of woodworkers worth watching https://www.youtube.com/user/Matthiaswandel

Re: Wood carving tools overview

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Post by yamafaktory » Wed, Nov 11, 2015, 7:36 PM UTC

I really appreciate the work of Peter Follansbee, who makes reproductions of 17th-century oak furniture, spoons and bowls with hand woodworking tools https://pfollansbee.wordpress.com/