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Looks nice friend!

Listen dude, you really gotta ditch the hook blades. They are really awkward to use. The best tool to make depressions for spoons I've found is an angled gouge. You can find lots of models.

Ive got a beavercraft one and I'm telling you it changes the fundamentals of spoon carving. I was in your shoes exactly. I only had a hook knife for depression. But they are too weird to use, have too big a diameter for smaller spoons, sharpening is a pain and just overall not good.

Then I got this gouge and man, now i can make any spoons without a sweat. https://www.amazon.com/BeaverCraft-Carving-Compact-Chisel-Carbon/dp/B07Y413RSS

I just discovered that intead of having 1 EU site, Amazon has a zillion nationally-specific sites...

Here's the US link to the book I'm telling you to get:

https://www.amazon.com/1-Page-Marketing-Plan-Customers-Money-ebook/dp/B01B35M3SM/

That's the one.

Find it at your local Amazon, & however short it is, it gives you the complete template of what you are required to do.

It is a precious resource, for anybody who isn't a business person, who wants to be self-employed.

( there are others, completely irrelevant to your situation, so you don't have to read them!! ; )

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, Hoomin

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> you can “deglove” your whole hand, and that doesn’t mean the glove. Horrible injury.

Yeah don't casually google that.

> Add some good work holding options (clamps, vices, bench dogs, or something like a spoon mule)

This came up in a discussion in a spoon group I'm in with positive recommendations: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001HBS0I0/

There is a Beavercraft sharpening/stropping handle that is designed to sharpen and strop hook knives. https://www.amazon.com/BeaverCraft-Sharpening-Stropping-Sharpener-Polishing/dp/B07VTLV2RX/

Otherwise, you can wrap sandpaper around a 1/2-3/4 inch dowel and run the inside of the blade along that. For the outside, you can run the outside of the blade along a flat strop/sharpening setup, while you roll the blade to get contact on the entire edge.

That video series is amazing! Opened up new worlds for me and that guy is awesome to listen too. Thanks for pointing me in that direction. Here’s my WIP using some of those grips

Hmm well looking at BeaverCraft this one comes up first;
https://www.amazon.ca/BeaverCraft-carving-knife-spoons-kuksa/dp/B07652XL34?th=1

Certainly within my price range. Just the hook knife. I'd have to suck it up and spend a day just learning how to sharpen it properly, I'm bad enough with straight edges; a hook is a nightmare.

Brings me back to this one;
https://www.amazon.ca/Whittling-Right-Handed-Beginners-Woodworking-Professional/dp/B07NDH99XQ/ref=sr_1_19?dchild=1&keywords=BeaverCraft&qid=1631822134&sr=8-19

The one which broke for one person. It's under the official bevercraft brand page though, and most people had no issue so like I thought it may be someone misusing it. It also comes with the sharpening tools and a straight carving knife that prob puts my good kitchen knife to shame. I'm leaning towards this now....

Except I look at the "BeaverCraft Group storefront" linked there, and I am less sure its actually the BeverCraft brand itself. 342 ratings on that page, all 100%. Dealing in other area's of social media those type of numbers scream manipulation. Or again maybe I know nothing.

:( was hoping to treat myself to a hook knife for my birthday but you guys kinda talked me out of it (I mean thanks though, I don't wanna throw money away at garbage either)

I guess I'll keep some aside and save up for some real knife and not an amazon fisher price wanna be.

Thank you! Gonna look into those knives and the sharpening kit. As for the blanks, do you think this one from Amazon will work fine or should I just order them from Emmet Van Driesch?

invest in some card scrapers friend, it will make smoothing these and future projects out much more easy. they are the best tool i own. also super cool work!

https://www.amazon.ca/Shop-Fox-D3294-Scraper-6-Piece/dp/B000OS6124/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&gclid=CjwKCAjww5r8BRB6EiwArcckC6uQs5dtWQzYgOP23kvfVgywCDpRweXfv0NuPpbNs0a549bbI9nayBoCAxgQAvD_BwE&hvadid=267145458635&hvdev=c&hvlocphy=9067854&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=11715085400724218176&hvtargid=kwd-375294859387&hydadcr=21598_10096169&keywords=card+scraper&qid=1602680580&sr=8-2&tag=googcana-20

This is the sharpener I bought. Works pretty good.

https://www.amazon.com/BeaverCraft-Sharpening-Stropping-Sharpener-Polishing/dp/B07VTLV2RX/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=beavercraft+hook+knife+sharpener&qid=1602164961&sr=8-2

if you are wanting a nice smooth even finish i would invest in some card scrapers. they are the best tool i own! that cost very little and so an amazing job of getting that surface even, worth every penny

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https://www.amazon.ca/Crown-376-Cabinet-Scraper-Gooseneck/dp/B001C06BLE/ref=sr_1_4?crid=3KOWT5EO1W7W1&dchild=1&keywords=card+scraper&qid=1598485031&sprefix=card+sc%2Caps%2C186&sr=8-4

I'm not an expert on using gouges on spoons, but I've used this Pfeil gouge a lot making Kuksa's and tinkered on spoons with it and a mallet. I think if you do the appropriate amount of axe work and you're working with green wood then you may not actually need a mallet to hollow the bowl. If you're using kiln dried hard wood it would definitely save you some forearm soreness

PFEIL"Swiss Made" 25mm # 7 Sweep Bent Gouge and I have a Hans Karlson dogleg gouge that I don't use a mallet with that works ok with spoons.

Not yet :( We're doing a secret santa and our limit was $25, so I got him this Morakniv instead. (As close to $25 as I could get)

But I plan on getting him something off of Ben Orford's site soon enough.