1st whittling project

12Bravo said:
Did a quick drawing of what I'd like to carve next.

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I think I might be a little ambitious :D
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Around here, the hardest part would be finding the wood to make it out of. It looks like fun to me. :D
 
Won't work - mobius strips do strange things when split. You should make yourself one out of paper wide enough to cut into thirds and see what happens. It might be a fun thing to do with a solid mobius strip as an object for people to try to figure out - just the first full 1/3 width cut would make an interesting object - or should I say pair of objects (if you just cut it in half, you'd still only have one object).
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We use to make these in school, it just gets longer ;)

It would be kind of neat to make one. not sure how I would lay it out. I might try to draw one up first. That would make a terrific whimsie.
 
Gents, let's please not lose sight of this being the traditional knife forum and start straying too far off our intended path.
If you want to share your project and the traditional knife you carved it with, that's fine. Otherwise let's move on and get back to what we do best here in the forum...Thanks.
 
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That's why your a Mod Elliott, ya keep us on target. :)

As far as whittlin' the Case Seahorse Whittler has a great blade combo, I did the bulk of my cuttin' with the enormous Wharncliff blade did most of the material removal, the small Pen did a lot of work on the ball and the Sheepsfoot was kept super sharp for the detail work.

It's one of the best patterns for whittlin' I've used, the swelled end on the Wharncliff side fits the hand like a glove, no hot spots while cuttin' just big enough for an average size hand.

I have one with SS blades and once sharp they cut well and held a decent edge while workin' on the Basswood, not sure how it would hold up to harder woods, I think the CV blades would be a better choice, mine was a gift so I had no say in the blade steel.

All in all though it is a great knife and pattern.

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T. Erdelyi said:
That's why your a Mod Elliott, ya keep us on target. :)
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All of a sudden my eyes are burning, it's hard to see in here and a strong breeze has worked its way up my pants legs...:p

;)

Carry on...
 
T. Erdelyi said:
That's why your a Mod Elliott, ya keep us on target. :)

As far as whittlin' the Case Seahorse Whittler has a great blade combo, I did the bulk of my cuttin' with the enormous Wharncliff blade did most of the material removal, the small Pen did a lot of work on the ball and the Sheepsfoot was kept super sharp for the detail work.

It's one of the best patterns for whittlin' I've used, the swelled end on the Wharncliff side fits the hand like a glove, no hot spots while cuttin' just big enough for an average size hand.

I have one with SS blades and once sharp they cut well and held a decent edge while workin' on the Basswood, not sure how it would hold up to harder woods, I think the CV blades would be a better choice, mine was a gift so I had no say in the blade steel.

All in all though it is a great knife and pattern.

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Agreed on the Seahorse. I use mine for lots of small whittling, and it excells at the tight angles required for a ball-in-cage. :thumbup:

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Sometimes a whittler experiences heartbreak. Here's a failed attempt by me at making a rattle out of butternut. Don't blame the pony, though. I made the cage bars too thin, and pushed too hard. Lesson learned. :(

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Lets see some of those whittling blades.

T. Erdelyi, do they make the seahorse whittler in CV?
 
12Bravo said:
Lets see some of those whittling blades.

T. Erdelyi, do they make the seahorse whittler in CV?
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I've seen 'em on the secondary market, (ebay) and if ya search the Case site or one of the after market sites ya can find 'em.

When ya go to Case's site type CV in the search box and it'll show ya every CV bladed currently available.

If ya need the exact sites pm me or email me and I'll give 'em to ya.
 
as soon as i got my swayback jack i started a ball in a cage. my thought starting off was that if I made it smaller, I'd have to cut less and it would be easier, then I realized I just had to be much more careful and controlled on my cuts, and it got too detailed too quickly. I have the vague shape of a ball in a cage, but lost faith in myself. should probably pick it back up, though. :D

next time I'll go bigger.
 
I just bouth a couple of Old Timer middlemen and a Rough Rider whittler pattern. 1 of the Old Timers is going to be a sharpening experiment, I am going to try and thin out the edges on the blade to see if it is worth doing to one of my other stockmans. The Rough Rider is just so I can out the whittler pattern.
 
In my years of (not spectacular) whittling efforts, I have found the congress pattern to be the best whittler on a variety of levels.
 
Blues said:
In my years of (not spectacular) whittling efforts, I have found the congress pattern to be the best whittler on a variety of levels.
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The congress was certainly the preferred pattern of most of the old whittlers I've known or known of.
 
zerogee said:
The congress was certainly the preferred pattern of most of the old whittlers I've known or known of.
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Dwight, I especially like the ones that feature four different blades (like my Case patterns or the Boker whittling congress). They sure are hard to beat when you need a blade of a certain profile or just another sharp edge to work with. :thumbup:
 
The congress looks like an interesting pattern. Most of the blades are nice a thin some nice warncliffs for plunge cutting.

Oh the slippie slope of traditional knives :D
 
There are some really nice projects in here. I started this last week. Not sure why I went all left brain other than I remember my grandfather carving characters when I was young. It's not really turning out like I hoped, or nowhere near as good as my grandfathers did, but for a very first attempt at whittling anything other than a walking stick, I guess I'm okay with it.

I'm almost done with the rough carve and still have to go back through and do the detail.

The interesting thing I found out about this was how much I love the spey blade. I'm using a Schatt & Morgan Railsplitter and have used the spey almost exclusively to this point.

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^^^ If I whittled that I'd be much more than "okay with it" looking very good. :thumbup:

John G said:
Sure is! Here's a pic I took back during the W&SS figure four challenge. Handy little jack knife, this one. It loves to carve some wood:)

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Is that patina forced? I mean, it's so stinkin' black. I love it :p
 
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