Tom, great video on how to do this style of carving. Very good explanations. Is there a company that makes this kind of Knife? I would like to try my hand at it. Thank you.
Hello. Thank you for the kind words. I do not know of any company's out there making the carving knifes, most carvers make their own. Mabe i will need to make a video of how i make mine. any blade will work really. it just needs to have a little thickness to it around 1/8thin to 3/16ths should work. In the old days a lot of Sami would just wrap their field knife in hide as to not cut themselves and just use the tip of the blade. a flat grind works a bit better than a convex. and preferably no micro bevel at the edge. edge should be what they call a zero grind. But it must be very sharp no matter what you are using. 1000 grit water stone. or black Arkansas stone would be the minimum in my opinion. If you just lay the blade very lightly on your thumb nail, it should want to stick and not slide. I will touch up the edge on my blade at least a few times during a session. don't be afraid to take the time to touch it up. much better that. then slipping off your lines. Hope this helped some.
Hola, muchas gracias por tu video. Es impresionante y de gran valor. Podrias darme referencia de la cuchilla de talla para el hueso? Wue es un cincel pequeño? No lo encuentro en mi zona para comprar. Muchas gracias
Most of the carving tools are hand made by each carver. Yes a small chisel will work. but even the tip of a knife blade will work. Lots of times the Puukko knife that was carried would just have the blade wrapped in hide so as to not cut the hand. and just the tip was used for the carving. Hope this helps. Try looking up Roman Kislitsyn. He once posted a good article also showing the tools he used.
Thank you for the wonderful tip. are you using a white liquid pigment? or very fine antler filings? also are you using clear epoxy? or white epoxy? or hide glue?
@@tombrown879 A drop of cyanoacrylate on the tip of a needle. But before that you need to remove all the black color. If you want white, place a very small drop of water on top of the CA. Liquid CA turns white with water.
@@HARM633 What a great work around. thank you for sharing. Would you do a video on carving a line of triangles sometime. With a look at the tool, you are using and angle deg. of blade. i still struggle with this technique and think that my blade angle is too steep that my triangles would have to be very tiny to work. I will defiantly need to try and make a barrel knife sometime. the ones you have created are amazing. Thank you again for your knowledge.
@@tombrown879 I didn't understand about the line of triangles. I have a cutter like yours, I sharpen it at 10-40 degrees. V - shtikhel (graver?). And a set of chisels from 1 to 4 mm from drill shanks. I do small triangles in 3 movements, not in one.
Tom, great video on how to do this style of carving. Very good explanations. Is there a company that makes this kind of Knife? I would like to try my hand at it. Thank you.
Hello. Thank you for the kind words. I do not know of any company's out there making the carving knifes, most carvers make their own. Mabe i will need to make a video of how i make mine. any blade will work really. it just needs to have a little thickness to it around 1/8thin to 3/16ths should work. In the old days a lot of Sami would just wrap their field knife in hide as to not cut themselves and just use the tip of the blade. a flat grind works a bit better than a convex. and preferably no micro bevel at the edge. edge should be what they call a zero grind. But it must be very sharp no matter what you are using. 1000 grit water stone. or black Arkansas stone would be the minimum in my opinion. If you just lay the blade very lightly on your thumb nail, it should want to stick and not slide. I will touch up the edge on my blade at least a few times during a session. don't be afraid to take the time to touch it up. much better that. then slipping off your lines. Hope this helped some.
Hola, muchas gracias por tu video. Es impresionante y de gran valor. Podrias darme referencia de la cuchilla de talla para el hueso? Wue es un cincel pequeño? No lo encuentro en mi zona para comprar. Muchas gracias
Most of the carving tools are hand made by each carver. Yes a small chisel will work. but even the tip of a knife blade will work. Lots of times the Puukko knife that was carried would just have the blade wrapped in hide so as to not cut the hand. and just the tip was used for the carving. Hope this helps. Try looking up Roman Kislitsyn. He once posted a good article also showing the tools he used.
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if you make an erroneous line, you can fill it with white pigment and glue and don’t have to sand it
Thank you for the wonderful tip. are you using a white liquid pigment? or very fine antler filings? also are you using clear epoxy? or white epoxy? or hide glue?
@@tombrown879 A drop of cyanoacrylate on the tip of a needle. But before that you need to remove all the black color. If you want white, place a very small drop of water on top of the CA. Liquid CA turns white with water.
@@HARM633 What a great work around. thank you for sharing.
Would you do a video on carving a line of triangles sometime. With a look at the tool, you are using and angle deg. of blade. i still struggle with this technique and think that my blade angle is too steep that my triangles would have to be very tiny to work. I will defiantly need to try and make a barrel knife sometime. the ones you have created are amazing. Thank you again for your knowledge.
@@tombrown879 I didn't understand about the line of triangles.
I have a cutter like yours, I sharpen it at 10-40 degrees. V - shtikhel (graver?). And a set of chisels from 1 to 4 mm from drill shanks. I do small triangles in 3 movements, not in one.
@@HARM633 thank you for all of your great info. This will help me.