Wood Carving Utensils

**rwc1969** · 10-19-2010, 03:03 PM

Here's a fork and fishing bobbers that I carved...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRPbWyrY550

...a pot holder knife

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zYNA6pg3XU

...and a spoon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rZ2RIFe0bg

Woods used were Black Cherry, Cottonwood bark, and Red Cedar.

Where needed, a SAK "Fireman" saw blade was used to harvest and cut the large pieces of wood down to size, it's made in Switzerland.

A Turley "Boone's Branch" fixed blade and a Schrade "Old Timer" pocketknife were used to carve and shape the wood, both were made in the USA.

100 grit sandpaper was used to finish the wood.

No fire or other specialized tools were used.

These are all functional tools that will be used extensively by me, they are not "knick knacks".

Here's some pics, I don't have any of the knife.

**pgvoutdoors** · 10-19-2010, 03:38 PM

Another good post. Thanks.

I taught wilderness survival skills to a group of people last weekend. They carved eating utensils but I didn't get a chance to make mine come dinner time. So I had a digging stick I used to dig in a dry creek bed for water, and I used that. Immediately I got some unsettling comments.

I just told them that one man's digging stick is another man's soup spoon. What I didn't tell them was that I had whittled the end down some and heated it over the fire before I used it to eat.

**oldtrap59** · 10-19-2010, 04:08 PM

Good job. Really like the spoon.

oldtrap

**crashdive123** · 10-19-2010, 04:58 PM

Well done.

**Rick** · 10-19-2010, 05:49 PM

Another great job. A little rep sent your way!

**your_comforting_company** · 10-19-2010, 06:47 PM

Those are some beautiful pieces! Awesome job! Tried to give some rep, too, but I gotta spread the love. I really like the coloring in the spoon.

**rwc1969** · 10-20-2010, 09:57 AM

Thanks!

Ya, the contrast between the sapwwod and heartwood on the spoon really sets it off. The fork is the same material, but doesn't have any heartwood in it.

I found a huge black cherry that the termites and wind had toppled halfway up it's length. The wood had split revealing large sections of undamaged wood that was easily broken off and transported home by me on my new molle pack.

I just used the compression straps to hold it all in. Got some weird looks on the way out though, a rough looking guy with a woodland camo backpak hauling about 40-50 pounds of splintered wood. LOL!

The cherry carves nice and the cedar smells great. BTW, the Red cedar makes a pretty good spindle and fireboard for the firebow, albeit a little hard. I'm going to try Black cherry next.

**your_comforting_company** · 10-20-2010, 10:37 AM

I found red cedar to be on the hard end of the firestarting spectrum. It appears it would be a much better wood for tools and utensils. I have some black and fire cherry wood I've been wanting to try, too, so I'd LOVE to hear how your try goes. Great work RWC. Wish I could give you more rep.

**rwc1969** · 10-21-2010, 12:17 PM

thanks again ycc. The cedar is nice for carving, but the stuff I find in the woods usually has lots of checks in it.

I could use a nice hatchet/ small forest axe to make the job of working larger pieces down to size and rough shape easier. If I had the cash I'd get a GB, wetterlings or the like, but it's not in the budget.

I had tried to whittle down a large piece of cherry for a spatula, but it was too much work, too much material to remove with just a knife and battoning doesn't get me the results I want.