Whittling!

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>>816554
Snek

>>816554
I used to make small stuff like keychains and spoons/forks while camping
Never been any good tho

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>>816554
Sorry no pics but I have done some whittling. I use Mora Companion and I'm happy with it.

Unless you consider it cheating, get another knife with only 2-3 cm blade for details. You can do things you can't do with a regular knife plus it's safer. A box cutter with snap off blades can be used as well, but it needs to have a lock with a screw.

If you don't have much experience, practice at home first. If you make a mistake you can hurt yourself very bad.

>I would love to hear about some insider products
In the Finnish army there's a tradition of whittling a thing called 'Leirikyrpä', a wooden cock. No one knows how, when or why the tradition got started. I still have mine as a keepsake.

I just make spoons and the odd bowl with my knife/axe/chisel. Sadly I am no good at it but yet I can make a perfect joint for a house.

I really really want to carve a kuksa, ive tried 3 times now but they ALWAYS FUCKING CRACK

how do i prevent this? am i just doing it wrong? and i trying to get it too thin? i never thin is less then a thickness of my thumb.

im not using greenwood, ive tried birch and beech both have cracked

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>>816554

I was out yesterday for a while whittled my wife a little love (tea) spoon at the lake. I had to ember carve the bowl because the it was too delicate to do with my Opinel. First time I've ever done it that way and I was shocked at how well (and fast) it worked

She took it into work today and blu tacked it to her monitor. apparently there were a few jealous women who's husbands/boyfriends are in for an ear full tonight lol

>>816555
RADOO!

>>818050
>dat logo

>>818050
>husbands/boyfriends are in for an ear full tonight
Probably be a few more single and happy men tomorrow.
My wife tries to give me crap about something someone else gave their gf/spouse is the day I tell her to pack her shit and GTFO, especially that no talent piece of whittlin'.

>>816554
>>816554
You are going to paint that thing like a live gnome then leave it in a troll infested forest for them to stomp on aren't you?

Dick move man, not cool....

>>817915
Could be a temperature thing, what do you treat them with when you're finished carving?

>>818050
Awesome handle design there, anon