spoon carving, wood carving knives and making a custom handlel
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| this is most of my carving knives. Mostly unused ones and about half are ones i made. I don't know how it got this bad. |
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| Just another spoon. but this one was for an instructional video. You can barely see it with all the shavings and white background. |
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| This was a handle i made for a deepwoods venture knife. it's got funny decoration and text because it was also for a video. |
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| and there's a walnut spoon, also for a video. |
Hey Daniel!
ReplyDeleteLove the pile-o-knives. I know how it is.....the tools are fun in their own right. I give my stuff away, but it seems there is always more. Breeding at night perhaps?
Much of your work gives me that mildly disturbed feeling, that feeling that faintly malevolent spirits are watching and aware. Even some of your Santa's......that's a good thing, right? Haha, I love it!
I live in Hawaii and have a limited data plan for Internet, so YouTube waits for visits to the mainland. I'm really looking forward to watching your stuff. Thanks for your work in presenting this. Good stuff!
hey!! thanks so much for your comment!
ReplyDeleteyeah, i know what you mean about my faces. even when i make a smiling face it's got a complexity and heaviness in the emotions that make it kinda creepy. but i may be sacrificing control of emotion for looking alive or real...idk..
anyway...hawaii? sounds nice. what the hell are you doing there? i mean...besides living it up? and what wood do you carve there? i play uke so i know about koa..is there local woods that are nice to carve?
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Please don't think for one moment that I am being critical of your work, it is exactly the complexity of emotion that distinguishes you as a craftsman! I am admiring your work greatly.
DeleteMy wife, daughter and I moved here to the big island recently. She is a research scientist at the University of Hilo, and though my interests lie heavily towards the Japanese carpentry end of idiosyncratic spectrum, I am interested in all edged tools. Unfortunately, I can't carve worth a damn, though I admire those who can, haha.
Here in Hawaii, most of the trees are introduced species, primarily varieties of Eucalyptus, with beautiful ( though difficult to work cleanly) interlocked grain. There are a large variety of fruit-woods that should carve nicely, though. Once I get my s**t together, I'll send you a box of different varieties. I'll be in touch!
Jason