What have you been whittling with your traditionals?

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I have posted pics here and there that include some of my current whittling projects (I always have several going), and I thought it’d be fun for to make a thread where everyone could share what they are whittling.

Not to be confused with wood carving, this is traditional knife whittling. The old timey stuff everyone’s grandpa used to do.

I been whittling since I was a kid. Sometimes it’s just splinters and sometimes it’s a project from the start, and sometimes it starts as splinters until it decides what it wants to be.

Here is little cedar scoop I am working on. This is an older pic and I’ve shaped the handle some more since this (I’ll get a fresh pic sometime soon).



Here is a couple blocks of hard pine I’m working on, I think they will be spoon rests. I wasn’t sure what it would be when I started.


I mostly did both with the case stockman but I do switch up and whittle with whatever I have that day. Or if I need finer blades, I may carry several for whittling detail.
The end grain on this pine was a real challenge.


Here is one of my main knives I whittle with.

An old timer 34OT. This was in my pocket when I lost everything in a fire 7 years ago. It does whittle good and is now quite sentimental.

An ash spoon. This was mostly done with the old timer. I kept it in the car and worked on it when I took the wife to drs visits. Took about a year that way. It’s been well used now.


She had done parted some out for everyone. She was using the spoon as I typed, on a batch of stewed apples. I snapped a quick pic for this thread.


Thanks for reading and feel free to add.

John
 
Here is some assorted junk I have whittled over the past couple of years:


There is more stuff laying about, too. The spoons, 1/2-cup measure, and lemon juicer get pretty heavy use.

I am currently trying to discover what interesting object lies within this chunk of maple root I dug out of my garden:
 
Just Tom. said:
Here is some assorted junk I have whittled over the past couple of years:


There is more stuff laying about, too. The spoons, 1/2-cup measure, and lemon juicer get pretty heavy use.

I am currently trying to discover what interesting object lies within this chunk of maple root I dug out of my garden:
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That’s pretty cool stuff, thanks for sharing. I like that big spoon. I’ll have to work on one of those.
 
Just Tom. said:
Thanks.
I have this other one, too. It is the dedicated rabbit food scoop (Opinel #8 for scale):


For it to function properly, you have to sing “rabbit food scoop” to the tune of the Beach Boys’ “Little Deuce Coupe”.
(I may have mentioned that before here…)
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Cool thanks for sharing.
 
You all are inspiring me. I’ll be in the woods next week and I think I’ll have to whittle a large spoon. Been years since I did that.
 
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JM2 said:
I have posted pics here and there that include some of my current whittling projects (I always have several going), and I thought it’d be fun for to make a thread where everyone could share what they are whittling.

Not to be confused with wood carving, this is traditional knife whittling. The old timey stuff everyone’s grandpa used to do.

I been whittling since I was a kid. Sometimes it’s just splinters and sometimes it’s a project from the start, and sometimes it starts as splinters until it decides what it wants to be.

Here is little cedar scoop I am working on. This is an older pic and I’ve shaped the handle some more since this (I’ll get a fresh pic sometime soon).



Here is a couple blocks of hard pine I’m working on, I think they will be spoon rests. I wasn’t sure what it would be when I started.


I mostly did both with the case stockman but I do switch up and whittle with whatever I have that day. Or if I need finer blades, I may carry several for whittling detail.
The end grain on this pine was a real challenge.


Here is one of my main knives I whittle with.

An old timer 34OT. This was in my pocket when I lost everything in a fire 7 years ago. It does whittle good and is now quite sentimental.

An ash spoon. This was mostly done with the old timer. I kept it in the car and worked on it when I took the wife to drs visits. Took about a year that way. It’s been well used now.


She had done parted some out for everyone. She was using the spoon as I typed, on a batch of stewed apples. I snapped a quick pic for this thread.


Thanks for reading and feel free to add.

John
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They way the spoon is centered with the grain in a bulls eye is fantastic.
 
rishma said:
They way the spoon is centered with the grain in a bulls eye is fantastic.
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I thought it was cool. Before it started getting dark with use, you could see some dark grain centered on the dish part. It was great.
 
JM2 said:
The flag is wow. Way over my current skill level. The dog is pretty sweet, I might give one of those an attempt. Thank you for sharing both. Very nice work.
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Thanks for the kind words! The flag was a get-to-know-you exercise with the puukko pictured with it. All of the work was done using only that knife.

I hope you'll give a dog a try. I had fun with that one, but let the tail get to fragile and it snapped as I was doing the final finishing cuts elsewhere. Fortunately it glued back OK. ;)
 
WhittlinAway said:
Thanks for the kind words! The flag was a get-to-know-you exercise with the puukko pictured with it. All of the work was done using only that knife.

I hope you'll give a dog a try. I had fun with that one, but let the tail get to fragile and it snapped as I was doing the final finishing cuts elsewhere. Fortunately it glued back OK. ;)
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Knowing you used only that knife, makes the flag even better.

I was looking at the dog, thinking I might let the tail touch the back for strength. No doubt my son will want to play with it.
 
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I've done a little thumb whittling myself a time or two. 🤣
 
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