Carving spoons

[Howard Wallace]

This video shows some very interesting roughing out and finishing work. The roughing out is done with a hatchet, but many of the same ideas generalize to the khukuri.

http://www.pbs.org/woodwrightsshop/video/3100/3108.html

 

[TheCanadian]

Aww the video won't play on my PlayBook...

 

[Steve Tall]

Thanks for the link. Here's a thread showing a friend carving with khukuris (he's thinning down axe handles, which are kiln-dried hickory, much harder than the green wood shown in the video):

Peter Vido wrote the following instructions for thinning existing axe handles.
The full post is at the Axe Connected blog:
http://axeconnected.blogspot.com/2011/03/thinning-handles.html

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In these photos the use of khukuri knives -- the multipurpose tools of the Nepalese culture -- is shown. They work very well; in addition, these knives can serve the role of a drawknife, and for many tasks other than handle thinning (peeling bark, shaping/smoothing small rails, tipi poles, etc.)

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