something i whittled.....

allyourblood

allyourblood

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not very good, but it's my second carving so far... i think i'm getting better. it's 6 1/8" OAL, the blade is exactly 4" (sorry, not legal carry in NY, LOL!). i guess you could say it's a modified drop point, heheh.

anyway, i just whittle at work in the downtime, so it goes slow, and i toss the wood if it's not looking the way i want it to. thus, i've only done two things.

to those of you who haven't bothered nipping at a piece of wood, try it! it's very... therapeutic!

abe m.
 
It looks good. I wonder if I carved a walking stick like that if I could get away with carrying it :D
 
Esav Benyamin said:
It looks good. I wonder if I carved a walking stick like that if I could get away with carrying it :D
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hehehe... walking sword.. i like it..

btw, i used an AFCK and an M16-12z to make this guy. it started life as a surveying hub.

abe m.
 
E.J. Tangerman's classic book Whittling and Woodcarving is worth buying if you're at all interested in whittling. It's gone through a couple of dozen reprints, I would guess. Lee Valley Tools also has excellent books on wood carving. But they are addictive... ;)
 
Alberta Ed said:
E.J. Tangerman's classic book Whittling and Woodcarving is worth buying if you're at all interested in whittling. It's gone through a couple of dozen reprints, I would guess. Lee Valley Tools also has excellent books on wood carving. But they are addictive... ;)
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cool, thanks.. i think i'll check it out!

abe m.
 
yeah, it looks nice. i have made similar wooden knives like that by whittling, although it's rather hard......if you whittle away too much, there's no way back :)

usually when i whittle i make pointy spikes out of wooden sticks, therpeutic, yes, but the end-results are somewhat disturbing. i now have laying around here a wooden double-pointed spike with a somewhat thinner middle as a handle and finger ridges on both sides for grip. it looks like a very mean and effective weapon, but it looks kind of sick as well. :D
 
Dennis,
It sounds to me as if you got lost coming off the set of Buffy, the Vampire Slayer!
Greg
 
heheh, don't worry Greg, i'm nothing like that. in fact i hate that series.

nah, it's just a lack of imagination i guess. when i whittle i automatically start making a pointy stick. it's like an instinct or something :D
 
dennis75 said:
nah, it's just a lack of imagination i guess. when i whittle i automatically start making a pointy stick. it's like an instinct or something :D
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i agree. more often than not, i try to start an idea, and end up just sharpening one end of the wood into a fine point. it always looks nice, but it doesn't do anything interesting, so i chuck it.

abe m.
 
Not bad work at all. Get the Tangerman book. You'll be doing chains and ball-in-cages in no time.
 
My next whittle project is a continuous chain carved from a wooden chopstick.

BTW the balls in the cage took 28 hours to whittle from a solid block of Bass Wood 3"X6". :cool: :D

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i actually started a ball-in-cage a couple days ago! but... it's slow-going, as you well know, so it looks nowhere near recognizable.

yours came out fantastic btw, T.

abe
 
Cool, here's something I made after reading one of the old whittling threads, it's pine from a piece of curtain rod.

Luis

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dennis75 said:
yeah, it looks nice. i have made similar wooden knives like that by whittling, although it's rather hard......if you whittle away too much, there's no way back :)

usually when i whittle i make pointy spikes out of wooden sticks, therpeutic, yes, but the end-results are somewhat disturbing. i now have laying around here a wooden double-pointed spike with a somewhat thinner middle as a handle and finger ridges on both sides for grip. it looks like a very mean and effective weapon, but it looks kind of sick as well. :D
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Reminds me of when I was a kid and I got my first knife. My dad got me a cheap knock off SAK (still got it somewhere) and I discovered how much fun it was to whittle sticks to points. I spent the whole summer holidays cutting branches off trees with the saw and sharpening them to a razor point.

At the time we had some pine trees behind our shed and I thought what better pleace to store these creations than stuffed in between the branches of the pine trees. Come the end of the holidays my dad came running indoors going 'Jesus I just went running behind the shed to get something and was nearly killed in that bamboo pit, what were you thinking?!'

:D
 
Don Luis said:
Cool, here's something I made after reading one of the old whittling threads, it's pine from a piece of curtain rod.
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it looks great, Don! i like the dark pine for sure.

abe
 
bladefixation2 said:
Reminds me of when I was a kid and I got my first knife. My dad got me a cheap knock off SAK (still got it somewhere) and I discovered how much fun it was to whittle sticks to points. I spent the whole summer holidays cutting branches off trees with the saw and sharpening them to a razor point.

At the time we had some pine trees behind our shed and I thought what better pleace to store these creations than stuffed in between the branches of the pine trees. Come the end of the holidays my dad came running indoors going 'Jesus I just went running behind the shed to get something and was nearly killed in that bamboo pit, what were you thinking?!'

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heheh, yeah ,good one! :D

BTW. some of you guys got serious whittling-skills! :eek: , balls in a tube, and nice finished as well. i got some learning to do it seems or it might be a 'skill-thing'
 
Alberta Ed said:
E.J. Tangerman's classic book Whittling and Woodcarving is worth buying if you're at all interested in whittling. It's gone through a couple of dozen reprints, I would guess. Lee Valley Tools also has excellent books on wood carving. But they are addictive... ;)
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i just ordered the book, this might just be a new upcoming hobby! (?). thanks for the suggestion.

d
 
Practice Dennis, lots of practice. Skill can be learned even with little talent. Keep your blade sharp and go slow and you will get it. Patience can be learned. You will ruin some peices and get cut a few times learning it, but it can be done.
 
Curse you all, I just spent money I didn't need to spend to get myself a copy of Tangerman. Some of you are incredibly talented. I'm not a good whittler, I just like working with knives, wood and my hands, so I thought this might be a good way to learn a new hobby. I have tried to make a set of eskimo sunglasses once, they came out okay, but way too small to actually function. Thanks for posting this AllYourBlood.

Lagarto
 
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