Pumpkin Carving!

whitty

whitty

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It is Halloween and one time of year where most Americans need a good knife to carve a pumpkin. I am curious to know what everyone out there is using. Me personally, I used an assortment of knives. I started with my Fletcher Knives Delta Foxtrot for the biggest cuts, then used my ZT 551 for the smaller cuts and finished it off with a kershaw SE scallion for the smaller intricate cuts. This is not my fanciest pumpkin ever but I had to carve whatever my daughter wanted. What did you guys carve and what did you use? Pics Please!

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Happy Halloween!

Whitty
 
No pics but I have been using a USA made Schrade 34OT for about 3 years now. It's perfect for this. I have tried thicker stock knives and they literally do not cut it! I did use a Mercator k55k to do the top cut for stem piece removal though and it went through it like butter.
 
Fallkniven F2 for the faces, Knives of Alaska magnum boar hunter for the opening. Plus, the little pumpkin carving serrated ones for the kids, so they don't cut themselves.
 
I've been carving my Jack-O'-Lanterns with a Ken Coats toothpick slipjoint for several years. It's long, thin, razor sharp and has a nice fine point (and the buckeye burl scales always remind me of Autumn).






 
Rick said:
I've been carving my Jack-O'-Lanterns with a Ken Coats toothpick slipjoint for several years. It's long, thin, razor sharp and has a nice fine point (and the buckeye burl scales always remind me of Autumn).






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Wow! Awesome pumpkins. I am definitely learning that a thinner sharper knife does the trick. Serated edges work well too. I am just so damn stubborn to use some of my bigger knives for atleast part of it. Guess I just don't get to use them enough.

Thanks for sharing the pics, nice work!

Whitty
 
No pics yet, but this year I used my mora clipper. It was big enough to get the the skin and rind of the pumpkin (mine were epic thick this year, like 3inches or so, the mora almost didn't make it through), but with a small enough point and thin enough blade that it was still able to carve the rest of the pumpkin.
 
I started with my Mora Allround then I managed to cut my finger so I finished the task with a thin Fiskars kitchen knife. It performed surprisingly well.
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Hi whitty -

I use a large cutco for cutting the tops off, and then an exacto and small jigsaw blades.

The "pumpkinator"
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heeeer's Johnny!
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portraits of two of my good friends who host a carving contest every year -
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best regards -

mqqn
 
Sorry no pics ATM, but I usually use my Ontario MKIII for big cuts, my Kershaw Scallion for smaller cuts and for the finest cuts I use an old Ranger knife company 2 blade Trapper.
 
I just finished my crude pumpkin. I'm a couple days late, but I still managed to have some fun.

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In all seriousness though, the pumpkin "shell" is amazingly resilient. I burnt a hot fire inside for about ten minutes before I called it. I'd be quite interested to see if someone could use one to boil ramen. I literally did not feel any heat by touching the outside of the pumpkin, WHILE it was on fire.
 
Opened the top with my AK bayonet, and for medium and small cuts my Leathermans worked perfectly. Wave and squirt.
 
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