A question to you whittler's out there

[bladeboss]

Hey there!
I recently discovered how much fin whittling can be.
I've used my pocket-knife alot, but I just dug out some woodworking tools.
Now, for the questions.

1. Do you ever use X-ACTO knives?
(I found an old kit I had with normal X-ACTO blades and fancy lookin' ones for whittling)
2. Do you ever use chisels or U/Y shaped chisels?

If you do use these things, pictures of your "gear" would be excellent.

 

[Bowman1911]

No pics, but I use a gouge set, and a woodcarving set with multiple carbon blades, as well as an exacto set. Last night I used the carbon bladed set to make myself a pipe tamper. I'll see what I can do about pics sometime this week.

 

[Mr. Chips]

have been whittlin' for almost 60 years, and have mostly used a pocket knife. Actually several.

I do other forms of carving too and use carving gouges. Get Pfeil tools. There is nothing better

here are a few whittlins

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[TLARbb]

have been whittlin' for almost 60 years, and have mostly used a pocket knife. Actually several.

I do other forms of carving too and use carving gouges. Get Pfeil tools. There is nothing better

here are a few whittlins

May look a bit better now.

Ed J

 

[Mr. Chips]

Looks a LOT better

Thanks for your help. I have been whittlin for a long time - not so much working with photobucket and posting pics

 

[burnside]

Wow! Mr. Chips, that is some amazing work!

Was that all done with a pocket knife? What has been your most commonly used pocket knife for whittlin?

 

[Mr. Chips]

These fan birds are made out of one piece of white pine or spruce with only a pocketknife as the tool.

I have used dozens - maybe hundreds of different pocket knives to whittle stuff like this. Mostly ones that I have modified somewhat to make them better for the job. I often carve human caricatures too and use the pocketknife as a primary tool though I do use carving gouges too. Sometimes just for fun, I do it all with just the knife.

Often for these birds I use a Rounghrider Barlow with a master blade modified to a wharncliffe, but I have also cooked up some special bird whittlin Opinels with blades modded to wharncliffe and edges sharpened in such a way that it is easier to split the feathers.

The current offerings from Roughrider, Colt, Marbles and Schrade are every bit as good as the older Bokers, Camillus etc. that I used to use.

One other knife that I have used a lot for this work is a Kershaw Double Duty with the long spey blade turned into the wharncliffe that usually shows up on all my knives.

I have a couple of Queens that I use sometimes, a canoe in D2 and a congress in 1095, but they are a bit disappointing in that I think they should be better for the extra money.