Best knife for feather sticks

[Groove]

This was my first attempt ever at fuzzing sticks, I tried a few knives and my Becker Eskabar did the best (convexed edge.)

 

[OwenM]

I wouldn't push on the spine unless you're using a skeletonized knife(to spare the webbing of your hand) or you're making the really fine shavings at the end to catch a spark. For making long feathers, I find that my thumb on the spine is a hinderance.

Yeah, I didn't express that thought very well. What I meant was, since he was having problems with control, and losing the shavings that he was trying to keep on the stick, he might try slowing down along with pushing on the spine of the blade with the off hand(the one holding the stick) to hold the angle, and keep the edge into the cut. Sometimes when you get the width of the blade between the "feather" and the stick, you end up pushing the spine towards the stick, levering the edge outwards, and popping off the shaving at the end of the cut. Maybe that made more sense...

 

[Shotgun]

This was my first attempt ever at fuzzing sticks, I tried a few knives and my Becker Eskabar did the best (convexed edge.)

Those look great for a first try. :thumbup:

 

[Big Chris]

Here is an older pic of a feather stick I made using a Golok I made

Last night I worked on one with a piece of my sons broken cap gun. Not real sure what the wood type is, but it cut pretty good. Wanted to splinter pretty bad sometimes.

Here is another try in some Cherry. I think this one turned out better. I tried supporting the wood on a stump and using a slicing motion with the cutting arm locked.