Whadja carve your pumpkin with?

[SkinnyJoe]

 

[chococrazy]

Hate to get into a pumpkin fight with you :O

 

[riversidedep]

Those hollow points seem like a good idea. You get to make the eye holes and blow out the pumpkin guts in one swift move lol!

 

[GWashington1732]

You're meant to carve the pumpkin, not chop it in half.

 

[LeftytwoGuns]

LeftytwoGuns, the OP asked what you carved pumpkins with, not what you use to dispatch those living-dead-zombie-pumpkins with.

thx - cpr

There's more than one type?

 

[scrinmaster]

Used a Mora last year, worked great. Pretty impressive knife for about $10.

 

[ginshun]

The best thing for carving pumpkins are the little saws that come with the pattern kits that you can buy at the grocery store or Wal-Mart. Somebody else said a hack saw blade, which would probably work well too.

I can guarantee that the little saws in that kit work better than any knife you try.

 

[4W4K3]

MY wife bought one of those kits with the little saws, and all 3 of them broke before she got done with her pumpkin. Cheap crap! She resorted to serrated kitchen knives, and I finished it by the end of the night. I think we are going to buy another pumpkin and try again for her lol.

Here's mine, carved completely with my Buck Cocobolo Woodsman.

 

[MikeC]

We buy the kits for the children as the little saws are perfect for them, we have pumpkin carving parties at our home every year and typically have the children carve between 20 and 30 pumpkins. Now for the adults we use paring knives with a thin sharp edge and a fully serrated spyderco rescue. Have the found the fully serrated spyderco perfect for roughing it out and then paring knife to clean it up or for your finishing work if you will. I've tried to use the little kit saws and they just don't work well with adult sized hands and strength but again for the kids their great and the kids get pretty good results with them. That said the kits we buy have somewhat sturdier saws in them than the picture of the kit posted above.

 

[orca8589]

Those little saws in the kits are the best, for sure. I only used a mod'ed hacksaw blade because we lost both little saws from our kits. The downside with a hacksaw blade is you can't turn with it (like a jigsaw) like you can those little kit saws. Otherwise, a hacksaw blade makes as nice a cut as a thin knife blade.

thx - cpr

 

[ginshun]

They are not top notch quality I'll give you that, and I have broken them before. I don't know what you are doing to break all of them on one pumkin though. I've bought maybe two or three of those kits over the last 5 years and me the wife and the kids all do multiple pumpkins every year.

 

[4W4K3]

The ones we have here must just be inferior quality. Out first saw snapped before we had one eye cut out. Maybe our pumpkins are just harder?

 

[GWashington1732]

I'm going to use a chainsaw!

 

[miro44]

The best thing for carving pumpkins are the little saws that come with the pattern kits that you can buy at the grocery store or Wal-Mart. Somebody else said a hack saw blade, which would probably work well too.

I can guarantee that the little saws in that kit work better than any knife you try.

I' d personall never use something like that, that' s what I have 70+ knives for. No matter if it works better

 

[Rick]

I carved this with one of those little pumpkin kit saws. The cheap kit is still in good shape after five All Hallow's Eve carving sessions.