What have you been whittling with your traditionals?

[ErikMB]

This was me just goofing around at work awhile back. I’ve not whittled a whole lot but wanted to try whittling on a stick with a big elephant toe pattern
View attachment 1956885looks like that elephant is for the birds!

 

[JM2]

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Not sure it's considered a whittling project because I knew what I wanted out of the piece of wood, but I made a shoe horn a while back.

Did you knap those points?

 

[Wild Willie]

Did you knap those points?

I did. Still need some practice, but I find the process enjoyable.

 

[JM2]

I did. Still need some practice, but I find the process enjoyable.

That’s cool man. I’ve never done it but I’ve always had an interest.

 

[screened porch]

Doesn't Blodwyn mean "white flower" ?
I ask that because in Breton, an other brittonic language like the Welsh, "Gwen" means "White". Breton and Welsh are close languages and share many words. The reason being that Brittany was populated by Welsh fleeing the Saxon invasions around the eighth century and managed to keep their own culture until the twentieth century.

Dan.

We weren't fleeing! We were counter-invading!
Yes , gwyn/gwen means white, or bright, or beautiful, or clean/pure. IIRC.
White is probably primary.

 

[dantzk8]

I don't know how to call this pattern. Maybe "Hollowed crossed crosses" if it means something.

Dan.

 

[Heathenhymnal]

 

[JM2]

Wow. Good whittling and good photography.

That canoe, is that all one piece? How did you get the bottom of the recesses square?

Is the wooden knife multi pieces/ functional or one piece made to be an open pocket knife?

 

[Heathenhymnal]

Wow. Good whittling and good photography.

That canoe, is that all one piece? How did you get the bottom of the recesses square?

Is the wooden knife multi pieces/ functional or one piece made to be an open pocket knife?

Thanks!

Yes, the canoe is all one piece and that was a bit of an experiment in stubbornness lol. I was hell-bent on finding a way to do the whole thing with just a pocket knife so I sort of made up a new, somewhat ridiculous, technique. I carved down as far as I could with just classic v-cuts going as deep as I could before my blade couldn't angle any further without hitting the rim of the canoe. This only got me so far though and left the bottom a mess of deep jagged peaks and valleys. From there I figured out how to flatten it and go deeper by making a series of hundreds and hundreds of tight, criss-cross-cutting lines over and over which then allowed me to kind of scrape the bottom out which fell apart in thousands of like tiny little cubes. If you zoom in to the bottom of the canoe you can see the evidence of this process as you can still see some of the hundreds of little score marks.

The pocket knife is also one piece and non-functional though I have been toying with the idea of trying to do one that actually folds.

 

[JM2]

Thanks!

Yes, the canoe is all one piece and that was a bit of an experiment in stubbornness lol. I was hell-bent on finding a way to do the whole thing with just a pocket knife so I sort of made up a new, somewhat ridiculous, technique. I carved down as far as I could with just classic v-cuts going as deep as I could before my blade couldn't angle any further without hitting the rim of the canoe. This only got me so far though and left the bottom a mess of deep jagged peaks and valleys. From there I figured out how to flatten it and go deeper by making a series of hundreds and hundreds of tight, criss-cross-cutting lines over and over which then allowed me to kind of scrape the bottom out which fell apart in thousands of like tiny little cubes. If you zoom in to the bottom of the canoe you can see the evidence of this process as you can still see some of the hundreds of little score marks.

The pocket knife is also one piece and non-functional though I have been toying with the idea of trying to do one that actually folds.

Thanks for the detail on how you did it. Man that must have been an excessive in patience.

 

[jwh720]

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Nothing fancy just teaching my boy the basics while on out camping trip

 

[Heathenhymnal]

Thanks for the detail on how you did it. Man that must have been an excessive in patience.

No problem! I did most of it while sitting at my work-from-home desk so it was kind of my stress reliever desk toy so luckily the patience part of it wasn't too bad.

 

[RLB0414]

The captured ball is impressive but each subsequent piece was more impressive than the last.

 

[Heathenhymnal]

The captured ball is impressive but each subsequent piece was more impressive than the last.

Thanks so much! It's become such a wonderful relaxing hobby for me and I've quickly filled up a whole box of random little whittlings. Also the perfect way to spend some quality time getting to know your knives!

 

[RLB0414]

Thanks so much! It's become such a wonderful relaxing hobby for me and I've quickly filled up a whole box of random little whittlings. Also the perfect way to spend some quality time getting to know your knives!

I would display these.

 

[dantzk8]

Dan.

 

[MUFC4Benfica1]

Wow, that's a nice canoe. Puts my efforts in the shade.

 

[Heathenhymnal]

Wow, that's a nice canoe. Puts my efforts in the shade.

Yours look great too! Honestly I think the hardest part is getting the canoe shape to look right and not look like a weird banana, and you totally nailed that! Doing the inside bit wasn't really hard in the same way, just super tedious. And you did a nice job with the insides of yours as well.

 

[sixgunner455]

Christmas ornamental stuff. This little Santa was today’s project while watching my high school boys play their last golf match of the year. Texture for hair and hat will finish the carving. Don’t know if I’ll stain or paint or just oil them.

 

[Dan1892]

Some of ya'll do some amazing stuff! I'm just getting started whittling, trying to learn the basics (don't laugh). I decided my first project will be to carve myself a set of chess pieces. A few pawns and a bishop down.